What Mike-Leigh-directed British drama film did Sheila Kelley act in?
Secrets &amp; Lies (film) Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Leigh regulars, it stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Hortense, a well-educated black middle-class London optometrist, who was adopted as a baby and has chosen to trace her family history – only to discover that her birth mother, Cynthia, played by Brenda Blethyn, is a working-class white woman with a dysfunctional family. Claire Rushbrook co-stars as Cynthia's other daughter Roxanne, while Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan portray Cynthia's brother and sister-in-law, who have secrets of their own affecting their everyday family life.
Gillian Kearney Gillian Louise Kearney (born 9 May 1972, Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English actress best known for her early role as Debbie McGrath in Channel 4's Liverpool-based soap opera "Brookside" and the spin-off mini-series "Damon and Debbie", and for playing Jessica Harrison in the long-running BBC television medical drama series "Casualty", as well as Emma Barton in the ITV Yorkshire-based soap opera "Emmerdale".