Sharon D Clarke: I didn’t grow up seeing someone like me in the lead role on TV
The actress plays the lead role in a new Channel 5 detective series, Ellis.
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Olivier-award-winning actress Sharon D Clarke has said she was “all over” Channel 5 series Ellis as she “didn’t grow up seeing someone like me in the lead role of a TV series”.
Clarke, 58, from north London, stars as the eponymous detective chief inspector in the drama – and this is her first time playing a lead role on TV.
Speaking to Radio Times, she said: “I can’t tell you why I’ve never been number one before.
“You’d have to ask the people who do the programming. I think it’s the idea that black doesn’t sell. Full stop.
“I haven’t been sitting around saying, ‘Why not me?’ It’s how life is. Everything in its time.”
