Meet the cast of Sky1's Strike Back! (VIDEO)

Meet the cast of Sky1's Strike Back! (VIDEO)
Meet the cast of Sky1's Strike Back! (VIDEO)

Amanda Mealing leads the cast of fast-paced action drama Strike Back: Project Dawn, which starts this Sunday on Sky1. Here the cast tell us more... Best known for her role as Connie Beauchamp in BBC1 medical drama Holby City, Amanda plays Colonel Eleanor Grant, commanding officer of elite operations unit, Section 20. Her mission is to track down infamous terrorist leader Latif - and she needs the right mix of brains and brawn to help. "Colonel Grant is cool, cold, tough, very intelligent obviously is a high-ranking female officer in a male-dominated world,' she says. "Sgt Stonebridge is her perfect soldier, while Damien Scott is a rebel. She knows if she sends them out they're likely to get the job done." Philip Winchester, who plays Sgt Stonebridge, threw himself into the show's spectacular stunts. "There was an explosion we were going to be near and the stunt choreographer told everybody besides Sullivan [Stapleton] and myself to stand 250 yards away. As everyone walked away, we thought: 'There's no turning back now'." Meanwhile, Sullivan, who plays Scott, had to combine stunts with nudity. He says: "Sex scenes are hard anyway, but when you've got to get up in the middle of that sex scene and fight two stunt guys while nude, that's a weird day at the office." Strike Back: Project Dawn starts on Sunday, August 20 at 9pm on Sky1.

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.