There are few more reliable ways to unmask them.” Looking for clues: Ella Maisy Purvis (left) and Laura Fraser in Patience Credit: Channel 4/Toon Aerts Until her late teens, Purvis trained ...

“It was an open-call audition, and they said: ‘We want an autistic actor to play an autistic role.’” Ella Maisy Purvis is recalling the first time she heard about Patience, the new Channel 4 crime ...

When Ella Maisy Purvis, star of the new Channel 4 crime drama Patience, was diagnosed with autism in her late teens, she was advised that adopting the "stigmatising" label would hold her back in life.

Ella Maisy Purvis - who is neurodivergent herself - shines as an autistic criminal records archivist with a knack for solving murders ...

Patience star Ella Maisy Purvis has addressed the casting of neurodivergent actors in neurodivergent roles, which is a guiding principle of the new Channel 4 drama. The story follows the unlikely ...

Autistic detectives are hardly a novelty on television. Just last year we had David Mitchell’s crossword-setting savant Ludwig, while one of the great dramas of the Scandi Noir boom, The Bridge, had ...

Looking for a new crime drama to sink your teeth into? Fans of Ludwig will love Channel 4’s Patience, kicking off tonight at 9pm. Here’s what to know before you tune in. Channel 4’s Patience: Plot, ...

The new Channel 4 drama's lead actress Ella Maisy Purvis called the city 'magical' as she enjoyed exploring the city in and around filming ...

Patience is a crime drama with a difference focusing on the role of an autistic archivist with an amazing memory and capacity to solve puzzles ...

While autistic archivist Patience Evans (Ella Maisy Purvis) relishes the routine and logic of her work, cataloguing evidence at Yorkshire Police's criminal records department, she feels she has ...