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Ashley Jensen is taking over from Dougie Henshall as the main actor in Shetland.
The 53-year-old from Annan in Dumfries and Galloway is best known for Ricky Gervais shows Extras and After Life and internationally for Ugly Betty.
And the mum-of-one who has lived in Bath for a number of years is thrilled she’ll be spending most of the year filming back home.
She said: “I can’t wait to be working in Scotland again. I have missed it!”
Ashley has already been filming in Scotland this year - making Mayflies with Martin Compston which comes out next month on BBC One - but it was only a short shoot.
Before then she played a detective in Robert Caryle’s Scottish-made directorial debut film, The Legend of Barney Thomson.
Ashley will star as DI Ruth Calder, a native Shetlander who returns to the isles after 20 years working for the Met in London. Ruth takes on the lead detective role left vacant by DI Jimmy Perez (Douglas Henshall) working closely with DS Alison “Tosh” McIntosh (Alison O’Donnell) and will make her debut when the series returns for it’s eighth series to BBC One and BBC iPlayer next year.
The cast and crew will begin filming in Shetland and across Scotland from the Spring.
Shetland, based on the award-winning novels by crime writer Ann Cleeves made it’s debut in 2013 with Henshall as main character Perez. But after nine years he quit at the end of this year’s seventh series and later felt “we’d murdered enough people on a small island”. He claimed he and writer David Kane had talked about finishing the show after series seven so was surprised the BBC wanted to keep it going.
Ashley, whose main job recently has been playing amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin admitted she had big boots to fill but insisted “the integrity of the
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