Character
Beth Latimer
Beth Latimer in Broadchurch (2013), played by Jodie Whittaker.
Beth Latimer is a mother in a small Dorset town whose eleven-year-old son Danny is found dead on the beach. She is pregnant, married, and trying to hold her family and her own footing together while the disappearance turns into a police investigation that pulls the whole community apart. Grief hits her in waves, not a straight line.
Jodie Whittaker plays shock as something physical, a body that keeps moving after the mind has stopped, and the writing refuses to let Beth become a symbol of grief rather than a person living through it. She is angry, tender, unreasonable, and completely convincing in every register, often within the same scene.
Beth Latimer is the mother of Chloe Latimer, Danny Latimer and Elizabeth Latimer. She was married to Mark Latimer. She is good friends with DS Ellie Miller, as they lived across the road from each other. When Beth was fifteen and Mark was seventeen, they welcomed their first child, a daughter called Chloe.
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Broadchurch2013