Lynda La Plante
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Lynda La Plante (born Lynda Titchmarsh 1946-03-15) is a British author, screenwriter, and erstwhile actress (her performances in Rentaghost and other programmes were under her stage name of Lynda Marchal), best known for the Prime Suspect crime series.
Her first TV series as a scriptwriter was the six part robbery series Widows in 1983 in which the widows of four armed robbers carry out a heist planned by their deceased husbands.
In 1991 ITV released Prime Suspect which has now run to seven series and stars Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. (In the United States Prime Suspect airs on PBS as part of the anthology program Mystery!) In 1993 La Plante won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her work on the series.
She formed her own television production company La Plante Productions in 1994 and as La Plante Productions wrote and produced the sequel to Widows, the equally gutsy She's Out (ITV, 1995).
Her output continued with The Governor (ITV 1995-96), a series focusing on the female governor of a high security prison, and was followed by a string of ratings pulling miniseries: the psycho killer nightmare events of Trial and Retribution (ITV 1997-), the undercover police unit operations of Supply and Demand (ITV 1998), and the female criminal profiler cases of Mind Games (ITV 2001).
There are two new additions to the Trial and Retribution miniseries which will be broadcast during 2006.
[edit] External links
- Lynda La Plante at the Internet Movie Database
- Lynda La Plante at the MBC Encyclopedia of Television
- La Plante Productions
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| NAME | La Plante, Lynda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Titchmarsh, Lynda; Marchal, Lynda |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946-03-15 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool, England |
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