TWO talented Stourbridge drama school pupils have won parts in a new BBC police corruption drama starring Neil Morrisey and Gina McKee.
Gregory Piper, aged 13 and Jordyn-Eve Davis-Greene, 11, have clinched parts in the five-part BBC2 show Line of Duty.
Written and produced by the creator of Bodies and Cardiac Arrest, Jed Mercurio, the series, based on a mistaken police shooting, will air early next year.
Windsor High pupil Gregory, of Haden Close, Dudley, will play Ryan Pilkington, a troubled youngster who gets caught up in the action.
Jordyn-Eve, of Whittington Road, Stourbridge, plays Natalie Tate, the daughter of a corrupt detective inspector played by Lennie James.
Both attend the group Dramaworkshop, run by Esther Stanford and based at Chawn Hill church in Stourbridge.
Esther said: “I’m so proud of them.
“They have done fantastically well. Gregory only joined us about three months ago. They have just done brilliantly.
“I’m ecstatic for them - it was the first audition for both of them.”
Dramaworkshop is linked to First Act Workshops in Birmingham, which it gets its auditions through.
Gregory and Jordyn-Eve, who starts Redhill School in Stourbridge in September, will be busy filming for the show in Coventry until November.
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