UNTIL I KILL YOU. sun to wed ITV 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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Until I Kill You sees two of TV's favourite actors come together to portray real life victim and abuser Delia Balmer and John Sweeney in the cast of the ITV drama.

Agency nurse Delia Balmer meets John Sweeney who confesses to killing his ex-girlfriend and attacks her before evading capture;

Balmer rebuilds her life to confront Sweeney seven years later, after he was arrested for another murder.

Ludwig (tvg-frontend-cem4ngzag-digitalbox.vercel.app/streaming-guide/ludwig-series-2-return-series-1-ending-explained-bbc-one-iplayer) star Anna Maxwell portrays Delia, who survived a near-fatal relationship with murderer John Sweeney, played by Shaun Evans.

The new four-part drama airs from Sunday, November 03, to Wednesday, November 06, 2024 at 9pm.

It's followed by the companion documentary Until I Kill You: The Real Story on Thursday, November 07, 2024 at 9pm.

So who is in the cast of Until I Kill You on ITV? Who plays who in the ITV crime drama? Here's everything you need to know...

Actress Anna Maxwell Martin as Delia Balmer in the cast of Until I Kill You (Credit: ITV)
Who plays Delia Balmer in the cast of Until I Kill You?
BAFTA-winning actress Anna Maxwell Martin, 47, portrays real life victim Delia Balmer in the cast of Until I Kill You on ITV.

Of course, Anna is a hugely popular TV actress - and with good reason. She is much loved for her role in Motherland, playing the perpetually harassed mother of two Julia.

Actor Shaun Evans plays John Sweeney in the cast of Until I Kill You.

Like co-star Anna, Shaun is a well known to TV audiences.

The 44-year-old came to fame playing John Paul Keating in the Channel 4 comedy Teachers, opposite Andrew Lincoln and Navin Chowdhry.
Liverpool-born Shaun then went on to appear in Whitechapel, and Silk, before appearing as Glover in series one of Vigil in 2021.

Kevin Doyle portrays David
Downton Abbey actor Kevin Doyle, 64, stars as David, who provides support for Delia throughout the court case against John.

Lincolnshire-born Kevin has been on our TV screens for four decades, and he's been on some of the best TV shows - including The Lakes, Downton Abbey, and Sherwood.

More recently, he's played Fred Rowley in Sherwood (tvg-frontend-cem4ngzag-digitalbox.vercel.app/streaming-guide/sherwood-series-2-ending-explained-recap-ann-branson-fate-tense-finale-episode-six), and Ronnie Browne in Vera.

Actor Steve Edge, 51, plays DS Collins in the cast of Until I Kill You on ITV.

Steve is perhaps most famous for his roles in Benidorm, Scarborough and Phoenix Nights.
He's also well liked as Dom Hayes in The Madame Blanc Mysteries, a role he's played ever since 2021.

Who else appears in the cast of Until I Kill You on ITV?

Matthew Aubrey stars as DC Flynn. The Welsh actor is known for playing Private Davies in Privates, Aled Williams in The Indian Doctor, and Mike Taylor in Keeping Faith.

Finding Alice's Amanda Wilkin plays Leah. She's also starred as Jo in Spent, and Suzie in Am I Being Unreasonable?

Dutch actress Sallie Harmsen stars as Astrid De Vries. She's best known for her roles in Sphinx, Legacy, and Van der Valk.

Lucy Thackeray as WPC Jane Barker. She's played Prue Stanton in Call the Midwife, and Linda in Black Ops.

Laura Morgan as DC Christine Webb. She's famous for playing Soldier in Culprits, Becky in Clink, and Maggie Cotton in Dark Angel.

Stephanie Street - aka Nadia in 20 Things to Do Before You're 30 - stars as Janice Rainsworth.
Spooks' Geoffrey Streatfeild plays DI Steve Smith.

Until I Kill You airs from Sunday, November 03, 2024 on ITV1 and ITVX.

@Oreyt

Yes I picked up Irish more than any other accent. Strange!!

Me too. People kept saying to Delia (in the show,) 'are you American/ Canadian?' But I genuinely didn't hear a single word that sounded American or Canadian. As you say, I heard Irish more than anything else, and a tiny bit of Scottish. Even the real Delia herself (in the documentary) didn't sound remotely American or Canadian to me.

@anonsurvivor

Have you never listened to Lyse Doucet? When I watched the documentary on Thursday and heard the real Delia, I thought AMM had got the accent very well. Especially as Delia had moved around quite a bit, she had picked up a few differences.

OMG I HATE Lyse Doucet's voice! 😖I don't know what her accent is, or whether it's a bit of a mix like Delia's. But it's not even the accent, it's her VOICE. It's incredibly irritating; nasally and whiny. It jars me so much that I mute the TV when she's on.

Welcome @Oblomov24

Lots of Canadians have Scots Irish heritage, the accent reminded me a little of the Fargo accents.

It is a particular part of Canada I think. I agree it isn't a pleasant accent. There is a TV chef/ food programme presenter from a couple of decades ago who is Canadian and has the same accent. I can't remember his name. Used to talk about "Judgely Huddles."

Lloyd Grossman.

I thought it was excellent and not boring at all! There were moments when it was so tense that my heart was thumping in my chest. Anna Maxwell Martin is excellent and the supporting cast was very good too. The actor playing Sweeney got a good mix of rugged charm to begin with, rapidly changing to menace and unhinged psychopathy. Delia wasn't always likeable, in fact she was often very frustrating and rude, but the criminal justice system let her down SO badly.

That magistrate who released Sweeney after he tied her to a bed and raped her for days. WTAF???? And the police just telling her over the phone and not accompanying her home to collect her stuff and escorting her to a hotel so she would be safe. I really hope things have changed since then. She was so vulnerable and so alone and I felt her anger with the police was utterly justified.

We watched the first episode and I really thought I wouldn't be able to stick it. It was very upsetting and it does seem distasteful making drama out of such an awful story.

We did go back to it, because it was based on Delia's own book, and I'm so glad I watched it all.

It was brilliantly done and really brought home how inconsequential victims are is so many police cases. (My husband was attacked and the police were completely useless. You could tell they couldn't understand why he'd bothered to report it at all. We had a video of the assault and they said there was no evidence!)

Well done Delia for giving them hell.

Well done Delia for giving them hell.
totally agree, she showed her anger fantastically. i applaud her

Definitely Fargo!

found the documentary on itvx quite boring.
we have seen the programme and apart from Belgium, learnt nothing really new

He's suspected of at least 2 other murders

It's really odd watching the footage in the documentary, it looks so old!

I thought the accent sounded a bit Somerset. Definitely difficult to place.

The actor in the series gave an accurate portrayal of the real person, why so funny?

He’s from Boston isn’t he? Baaaston

I watched the whole thing in one day. I’d not heard of the case before. The way she was treated by the police was shocking, especially when talking to the police for the first time. Can you imagine discussing that with two men sat there. I was surprised to discover that the use of the title WPC was only dropped in 1999!

I can’t believe the comments on this thread about her not being likeable. She strikes me as be ND or autistic. It shows how the police and others view victims of domestic violence if they don’t behave in the way that people feel victims should.

I thought the accent was Irish at first. I also noticed it changed when she talked to her brother.

Guessing not Not likeable as very prickly and abrupt

Oh! So he is. Ignore me.

Utterly chilling.

I'm only up to ep #2, and it think it's brilliantly done. AMM is terrific, but what strikes me about this is that although it's based on a true story, I knew nothing of it. Reminded me of Steeltown Murders, on BBC I think, and again, it seemed like a big story that passed me by. The peril Delia found herself in was so accurately portrayed, and I hope it has something of the same kind of impact the Post Office story had.

@duc748 agree. Been a few dramas from real life recently and I never knew of them in real life

I love Anna Maxwell Martin but I have got to the stage where I can’t watch anymore drama about male violence to women.
I appreciate that in some ways it highlights the issue but part of me thinks it normalises it too.
Either way I am done.

It stirs up so much negative emotion in me, it takes me days to disconnect from the negative feeling.

How she was treated by the criminal law system was very well portrayed. Not only did she suffer from the brutal attack, she also suffered from the way she was treated. Fucking disgraceful!

Just finished the last two eps. I thought it was superbly done, and the cast were excellent. The way Delia was treated was made clear. Remarkable that the case wasn't more renowned; after all, it certainly is an amazing story.

I thought it was very well done and with a very strong cast. I saw the snippet of an interview with AMM the other day and she was talking about her husband dying in 2021... I think she is made of very strong stuff herself!