Who's who in Miss Scarlet and the Duke

Get to know the cast of compelling characters in our brand new period detective drama.

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Eliza Scarlet

Played by Kate Phillips

Feisty and fiercely independent, the clever and cunning Eliza Scarlet always longed to follow in her father's footsteps and be a sleuth. Now, with his sudden passing, she's getting the chance to fill his shoes, take over his failing business and become the daring detective that Victorian London didn't know it needed. Although his death in an enormous loss, the tips and tricks her father taught her as she grew up will prove invaluable.
Inspector William Wellington (aka The Duke)

Played by Stuart Martin

The rough and roguish William Wellington is an Inspector for Scotland Yard and believes that being a detective is a job for a man and it's down to tough coppers like him to keep the streets of London safe for ladies like Eliza. He's about to be proved very, very wrong! Beneath his gruff exterior, though, William is a good-hearted fellow who is fond of Miss Scarlet and, despite himself, reluctantly teams up with her.
Rupert Parker

Played by Andrew Gower

Rupert Parker is a mild mannered and slightly nervous young man who also happens to be from an extremely wealthy family. Pushed around by his domineering mother, Mrs Parker, he longs to strike out on his own, leave home and find some independence, which makes Eliza and him kindred spirits. When he offers to invest financially in her detective agency, the pair become close friends.
Moses

Played by Ansu Kabia

Miss Scarlet first meets the shady Moses, an infamous crook from Jamaica, when she's tracking down a missing person on her first case and he's working as a minder for chorus girls in a seedy Soho club. Eliza incurs his violent temper but she proves more than a match for him and earns his respect. And maybe his intimate knowledge of the London underworld will prove a valuable source of information for future cases.
Henry Scarlet

Played by Kevin Doyle

Miss Scarlet’s late father, Henry, was a retired police officer who turned his hand to private investigating. A close friend of William "The Duke" Wellington and a mentor to him, Henry was steadily drinking away the profits of his own business when he suddenly died, leaving Eliza penniless. In his heyday, though, he was a much respected and admired detective and he remains very much alive in her memory.
Ivy

Played by Cathy Belton

Ivy is the Scarlet's strict and savvy housekeeper. She runs a tight ship and, being on the front line of domestic duties, is the first to realise that the family's finances might be in peril. Something of a confidante and mother figure to Eliza, since her own mother died, she takes up a greater parental role with the passing of Henry Scarlet, although getting the impulsive Eliza to heed her advice often proves difficult.
Mrs Parker

Played by Helen Norton

A friend of the Scarlet family, although not very friendly to say the least, Mrs Parker is a stubborn, hot-tempered busybody. The matriarch of a rich family, she's initially intent on making a match between Eliza and her son Rupert. As Henry Scarlet forgot to renew the lease on the family home it later transpires that, although Eliza has been spared an unpleasant mother-in-law, she’s gained an unpleasant landlady!
Detective Inspector Frank Jenkins

Played by Danny Midwinter

DI Frank Jenkins is William Wellington's sidekick at Scotland Yard. With the Metropolitan police swamped with cases, it's all hands to the pump, but Frank resents having to do any work he considers beneath him and is quick to assert his authority on anyone with a lower rank. With the Duke getting more and more credit for cracking cases (thanks to Eliza's assistance), Frank is in danger of being left in the dust.

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Eliza Scarlet

Inspector William Wellington (aka The Duke)

Rupert Parker

Moses

Henry Scarlet

Ivy

Mrs Parker

Detective Inspector Frank Jenkins