Breaking Bad
2008 · Drama · Crime
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TV series / 2018
Patrick Melrose
Episode directors
Edward Berger
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
The story
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
The seasons
Season 1
Season 1
Season details
Patrick Melrose is a man from a very privileged yet traumatic childhood in the 1980s. Patrick's father was a very abusive man and Patrick's mother put up with his behavior. Eventually, Patrick's trauma led him down a path of adulthood addiction and severe substance abuse in New York.
Cast
Benedict CumberbatchPatrick Melrose
Jennifer Jason LeighEleanor Melrose
Hugo WeavingDavid Melrose
Sebastian MaltzYoung Patrick Melrose
Jessica RaineJulia
Prasanna PuwanarajahJohnny
Pip TorrensNicolas Pratt
Indira VarmaAnne Moore
Anna MadeleyMary Melrose
Holliday GraingerBridget Watson-Scott · Lady Gravesend
Gary BeadleChilly Willy
Morfydd ClarkDebbie Hickman
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John StandingGeorge Watford
Blythe DannerNancy Valance
Celia ImrieKettle
Eileen WalshAnnette
Dainton AndersonThomas Melrose
Marcus SmithRobert Melrose
Guy PaulCousin Henry
Jennifer ArmourBorder Control Officer
Allison WilliamsMarianne Banks
Richard BrakeMark
David MillsHotel Receptionist
Oengus MacNamaraBellboy
Dempsey BovellDrug Dealer 2
Kevin LayneShades
Charley Palmer RothwellDrug Dealer 1
Janine HarouniFuneral Parlour Receptionist
Michael Levi HarrisFuneral Parlour Waiter
Apple BrookElderly Mourner
Kerry ShaleFuneral Director
Cory PetersonRestaurant Waiter
Andrea DavyMrs. Willy
Philip ArdittiPierre
Matthew MarshBallentine Morgan
Nancy CraneNancy Banks
Eben YoungJerry Banks
James FleetSir Victor Eisen
Chantal NeuwirthYvette
Anthony BoyleBarry
Harriet WalterPrincess Margaret
Hippolyte GirardotJacques D'Alantour
Irène JacobJacqueline D'Alantour
Tim McMullanSonny Gravesend
Amanda RootVirginia Watson-Scott
Julian FirthTony Fowles
Margo StilleyCindy Smith
Richard DixonDavid Windfall
Gabriel QuigleyNanny
Lila PrideauxBelinda Gravesend
Anthony TaylorHarry / Secretary at N.A.
Beatrice CurnewAngie at N.A.
Georgia MaguireAmanda Pratt
Jamie BradleyPeter at N.A.
Richard AttleeWeather Forecaster
Simon WeirAngus
Paul BullionSecurity Guard
Martin WareWaiter, Cheatley
Jonjo O'NeillSeamus Dourke
Georgia GoodmanClaudine
Declan RodgersKevin
Dixie EgerickxLucy
Elizabeth BerringtonFleur
Roger AlboroughFuneral Director
Roger BarclayDoctor Fenelon
Naoko MoriDoctor Pagazzi
Margaret ClunieHelen / Waitress
Annabel MullionAnnabel
Natalie KlamarBecky
Tom AndersonGordon
Bryony MillerJill
Cameron JackTerry
Neal BarryMinicab Driver
Eric MeyersKey Club Member
Tom AndersonGordon
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