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Anne Meredith

Anne is a mysterious character to all the convicts. She is self-contained, clever and quiet and will look after herself, before anyone else. Her intelligence makes her able to notice things about people that she can use.

Orla Brady on Anne

Anne is a character who is apart from the others
Orla Brady

"Anne is a character who is apart from the others. She is not Christian in spite of Christianity being a given in the colony at that time. Anne has a different way of seeing things. Her beliefs are akin to what we would now call Pantheist, or Animist in the sense of everything having a soul. Anne believes that she speaks to the dead and that she is a conduit that can bring messages from the dead and even the unborn. Standing outside the moral code of her time, she is not a character which the others find easy to understand, hence there is suspicion and fear of her, especially from the vicar."

About Orla Brady

Orla Brady is an Irish actress whose career has spanned across television, film and stage and has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Such productions included the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú co-production A Love Divided where she portrayed Sheila Cloney, for which she won the 1999 Golden Nymph Best Actress Award. US dramas Nip/Tuck and Shark.

In 2008 she appeared in Firewall, Wallander and Hustle. Brady starred in Doctor Who's 2013 Christmas special episode The Time of the Doctor as the character Tasha Lem.

She is married to the English photographer, Nick Brandt and divides her time between London and LA.