Last night saw the start of ITV’s new three-part drama Unforgiven, starring Suranne Jones as Ruth Slater, a role that was specifically written for her by Sally Wainwright.

Suranne turned in an amazing performance, as did the rest of the cast which contained some of my favourite actors such as Peter Davison, Siobhan Finneran and Jack Deam who plays stuttering Marty in Shameless. Read more & comment »

Ruth Slater (Suranne Jones) has been in prison for 15 years after being found guilty of the murder of two policemen. Today she is being released. She has been in a low security prison for the past two years, so it’s not a huge shock seeing the outside world, but it’s still very daunting. Ruth reports into her probation officer and after being assigned a flat she’s given the details of her new job at the local meat factory in Halifax. In her new flat, she explains to the probation officer that she has a younger sister, Katie, whom she virtually brought up and loves deeply. She was taken into care when Ruth was arrested and despite frequent attempts, she’s heard nothing from her for the 15 years she was in prison. Will she be able to track down the sister who means so much to her?

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Former Coronation Street actress, Suranne Jones, has revealed that she hated sporting blonde hair whilst she was filming ITV’s new TV series Unforgiven.

Jones told The Mirror: “I hated it. Friends thought I was having a mid-life crisis with this nicotine-yellow hair. I tried to go with the look and wore jeans and a check shirt. It was a vain attempt to look like Daisy Duke. But I looked a bugger!”

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