Checking in with KRIS MARSHALL
Six years after the events of “Death in Paradise,” Kris Marshall returns to the role of Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman in the spin-off crime drama “Beyond Paradise.”
Currently streaming on Britbox, the series finds Humphrey out of the “Paradise” of the Caribbean and back on U.K. soil in the fictional southwest town of Shipton Abbott, where he’s now engaged to Martha (cast returnee Sally Bretton) and is surrounded by a new team of police, including colleague Kelby (Dylan Llewellyn, “Derry Girls”) and partner Esther (Zahra Ahmadi, “Doctor Who”).
But life in this seaside burg isn’t as sleepy as it seems and its unusually high crime rate puts Humphrey back to work on a new case in each episode.
For Marshall, stepping back into the character was a no-brainer and he found Humphrey’s maturity six years on and his established relationship with Martha appealing as well.
“You know, they’re a couple who found each other later in life,” he explains, “and (it’s about) the challenges they have to overcome and the personal journey they go on. You know, wanting to start a family and how to do that later on in life. But to me, it’s the way we change the denouements as well, the denouements are completely different.”
“I think it achieves that thing of like retaining the DNA and the interest of the original show, which is the lightheartedness and the puzzles,” he continues. “But it’s completely unique because it follows their personal relationships more closely.”
Full name: Kristopher Marshall
Birth date: April 11, 1973
Birthplace: Bath, England
Family ties: He and wife Hannah are the parents of a son and a daughter
TV credits include: “Metropolis,” “My Life in Film,” “My Family,” “Funland,” “Murder City,” “Sold,” “Human Target,” “Traffic Light,” “Citizen Khan,” “Death in Paradise,” “Borderline,” “Better Things,” “We Hunt Together,” “Sanditon”
Movie credits include: “Five Second to Spare” (2000), “The Four Feathers” (2002), “Love Actually” (2003), “The Merchant of Venice” (2003), “Death at a Funeral” (2007), “Easy Virtue” (2008), “A Few Best Men” (2011), “A Few Less Men” (2017), “Promises” (2021)