A television movie has the unexpected bonus of two star actresses - Tara Fitzgerald and Jennifer Ehle - as walk-on extras in its production.
The two performers were strolling across Barnes Common in South-West London last weekend, not realising they had walked into a crowd scene being shot for an unidentified drama.
Ms Ehle and Ms Fitzgerald, pictured here with her fiance and fellow actor Dorian Healy, after celebrating her birthday at The Ivy restaurant (he bought her a ruby ring), became firm friends when they worked together on Peter Hall's TV version of The Camomile Lawn.
The coming season will be good for Ms Fitzgerald. She co-stars with Ewan McGregor and Pete Postlewaite in Mark Herman's funny picture, Brassed Off, as well as the television adaptation of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
