Director: Julian Jarrold
Script: Allan Cubitt
Photography: Peter Middleton
Editor: Chris Gill
Sound: Mike Turner
Music: Peter Salem
Production Design: Stephen Fineren
Casting: Gail Stevens
Principal Cast: Iain Cuthbertson, Helen Mirren, Franco Nero, Iain Glen, Lesley Manville, Michael Maloney
Producer: Emma Burge
Executive Producers: Gub Neal, Rebbeca Eaton
Associate Producer: Helen Mirren
Production: Granada Television in association with WGBH/Boston
Distribution: BRITE
First Broadcast: 6.12.1997, 21:00, ITV
Selected Filmography Julian Jarrold: Fighting for Gemma, 1993; Cracker, 1994; Some Kind of Life, 1995; Touching Evil, 1997.
Helen Mirren, the tough talking inspector Tennison form “Prime Suspect”, returns as 60’s wild child Maggie Sheridan in “Painted Lady". After a failed suicide attempt following decades spent on drink, drugs and sordid sex, the has-been folk star is taken in by Sir Charles Stafford and his son Sebastian. One evening Sir Charles is brutally murdered and one of his paintings is stolen. Maggie, convinced the painting holds the key to his death, goes undercover as a Polish aristocrat art dealer and sets about tracking it down. “Painted Lady” is a compulsive murder-mystery set amid the murky underworld of illegal art trade. "Prime Suspect" author Allan Cubitt has written Helen Mirren, as producer Emma Burge puts it, "a role to die for". Co-starring Michael Maloney and Franco Nero.