Fackham Hall — Characters & Cast

Initially survival and opportunity; later love for Rose and the far more dangerous desire to be believed.

Arrives as a loveable pickpocket working a con, climbs the household ranks with improbable speed, and finds himself genuinely attached to Rose and to the house. Framed for murder, he is forced to stop running scams and start proving something — a thief who has to become an investigator to establish his own innocence.

Escape from a scripted life, and loyalty to a man her class says she should not even see.

The daughter of the house, positioned by the genre's rules to marry appropriately and decorate a drawing room. Her attraction to Eric moves her from ornament to agent, and the murder plot forces her to choose between the family name and the person she believes in.

Preserving the appearance of order, dignity and the family name — in roughly that order.

A stuffed shirt with a twinkle of clueless entitlement, he presides over a house he barely understands. The disruption of a criminal in his service and a corpse under his roof strips away the last of his assumed command.

Maintaining her standing and her own private interests within a hierarchy she navigates expertly.

Brings poise and dryness to a household built on pretence, reading the room far more accurately than her husband does. As suspicion spreads, her composure becomes both shield and suspect behaviour.

Order below stairs, and the small, fiercely defended power that comes with it.

The housekeeper who rules the servants' domain and therefore controls Eric's rise or fall. She is the genre's stern-but-devoted retainer, played for maximum severity and minimum sense.