If you’re a soap fan who is one of the many people who’ve already watched Netflix’s hard-hitting new drama Adolescence, chances are you might have spotted a familiar face among the cast.
The four-part series follows the horrifying fictional tale of a 13-year-old boy who stabs a female classmate to death.
It explores themes like incel culture and online communities that promote toxic masculinity and misogyny, with each episode filmed in a continuous shot.
The cast is led by Line of Duty and This is England actor Stephen Graham, who co-wrote and co-created the series.
The drama also features Top Boy star Ashley Walters and The Crown’s Erin Doherty, with Owen Cooper making his on-screen debut as Jamie, the teenager at the centre of the story.
Christine Tremarco also plays Jamie’s mum Manda Miller, who is married to Stephen’s character Eddie Miller – while Stephen’s real-life wife Hannah Walters also appears as a teacher.
However, Emmerdale fans will likely best recognise Christine as Rose Jackson from the ITV soap.
The actress was part of the soap cast for four months last year, arriving as the ex-wife of Will Taylor (Dean Andrews) and mother of Dawn Fletcher (Olivia Bromley).
She had been working for Ruby Fox-Miligan (Beth Cordingly) in trying to split Will and his wife Kim Tate (Claire King).
Rose was presumed dead after going missing, with Kim and Will both suspecting each other of killing her.
She was later revealed to be alive and well, living a new life away from the village, with Dawn staging Rose’s disappearance to test her dad Will.
Away from the Dales, Christine has appeared in Waterloo Road as Davina Shackleton from 2007 to 2009 and also played nurse Linda Andrews in Casualty from 2010 to 2013.
Her other credits include Little Boy Blue, Safe House, Fat Friends and The Responder.
Along with the rest of the cast, Christine has won praise for her performance in Adolescence.
Stephen, who co-wrote the show with Jack Thorne, previously told Metro the idea for the series came after he heard about ‘another incident of a young boy stabbing a young girl’.
‘It just hurt my heart, basically,’ the 51-year-old said. ‘I just wondered, what kind of a society and what kind of a world are we living in where this kind of thing has happened, not once, not twice, three, four, five times? It just really made me curious.’
