Grace Dasari
First appearance	'Better Off Dead' (14/6/07)
Portrayed by	Amita Dhiri
Information
Occupation	Police Officer
Title	Detective Constable

Grace Dasari is a fictional character in the television series The Bill. Actress Amita Dhiri has played her since her first appearance in 2007.^[1]

Contents 1 Character history 1.1 Neil Manson 2 Casting 3 References

[edit] Character history

After completing her doctoral thesis on Criminology at the University of Oxford's Centre of Criminology, Grace joins the police to put her academic experience into practice. She is recently transferred from the Specialist Crime Directorate where she worked long term on Eastern European organised crime.

Grace does not like comforting victims of crime, she is logical and joins the police force to put criminals behind bars, not to do social work. Grace analyses the evidence before her and makes logical deductions given the facts. Despite her disdain, Grace is a team player: she will play to her and the team's strengths. If she thinks a colleague can do a better job than her, she is a big enough person to pass it on.

Grace won't be seen down the pub with the team at the end of the day. She didn't come to Sun Hill for a social life.

In the recent eight part special 'Witness' Grace met an old flame from her study days called Sunhill Davdra who turns out to be the defence barrister for Dwayne Fox and Tito Morientes. Grace wants to get away from Sunhill and it is obvious that they didn't part on the best of terms.

[edit] Neil Manson

Grace has a good working relationship with her boss, Neil Manson, and the pair often work together to solve cases. Neil also uses Grace as his confidante in CID - whenever he needs something doing covertly or needs to find something out he'll send in Grace. Recently, Grace asked Neil out for dinner but he rejected her, thinking it was a group outing. When he discovered it wasn't he chased after Grace to accept her offer and go out with her on a date.

[edit] Casting

Speaking of her casting on February 3, 2007, Dasari, famous for her role in TV series This Life, commented "Grace is quite a cool customer - not good at dealing with emotion... I think she's really going to shake things up a bit." ^[2]

[edit] References

v • d • e The Bill Characters June Ackland • Millie Brown • Max Carter • Grace Dasari • Jo Masters • Jack Meadows • Nate Roberts • Dale Smith • Callum Stone • List of characters Notable storylines Woodentop • Sun Hill Explosion 1988 • The Don Beech Scandal • Beech on the Run • The Sun Hill Fire (2002) • The Sun Hill Fire (2005) • Sun Hill Siege (2007) • Sunhill Bombings (2008) • Proof Of Life (2008) Production staff Geoff McQueen • Charlie Morgan • Paul Marquess • Jonathan Young Related articles Live episodes • Cast members • List of episodes • Sun Hill • Title sequences