Identity is the new ITV1 drama series starring Keeley Hawes, Aidan Gillen and Shaun Parkes. You can find out more about the series over at MemorableTV.com and here we talk to Shaun Parkes about the show. Shaun had a very different background to his on-screen character in the new series of IDENTITY. “I think Anthony Wareing’s parents had very definite ideas about what they wanted him to become. They wanted to try and shape his future whereas my parents were just happy for me to be myself. They let me become who I wanted to be,” explains Shaun. “I think his parents are good people and very Christian. But they’re of the mind, ‘we’re spending money on you, we put you in a good school, you’d better not mess around’. I think Anthony is one of these guys who, when he was younger, might have been pushed to do well for all kinds of reasons. I guessed that as a kid he probably suffered a bit of racism and so when he got older he thought, ‘right I’m going to prove to everyone that I can
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