In A Small Light, Liev Schreiber is playing Otto Frank, the father of Dutch teenager Anne Frank. (Image credit: ALTITUDE FILM FOR ITV) Liev Schreiber on playing Otto Frank Joe Cole as Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File. High and voices Little My in the animated series Moominvalley. She was Bianca Dyke (Tiger Dyke's sister) in one series of the hit ITV comedy Benidorm. Bel has also appeared in T he King of Staten Island, Informer, Mary Shelley, M.I. She has previously starred as Claire Conway on The Morning Show and Birdy in Everything I Know About Love. * Bel Powely played the teenage Princess Margaret in another wartime drama based on real events, the 2015 film A Royal Night Out. I just wanted to get an idea of who she was, and her soul, so that was helpful for me too.' So I read that a few times just to get a sense of her voice.

'My main source of research was Miep’s own book called Anne Frank Remembered. ‘Before she was put in that situation, and before she made the decision to do what she did, she was just a normal young girl. 'I found her character incredibly relatable as a young woman,' says Bel, 31. (Image credit: Disney Plus) A Small Light cast - Bel Powley on playing Miep Giesīel Powley plays reluctant hero Miep who helped hide and provide food for eight Jews hiding from the Nazis. Reflecting on the Hanukkah holiday’s themes of resistance, resilience and courage, the first look picture from A Small Light (see main picture above) shows Miep and Jan Gies, the Frank family, the van Pels family, and Fritz Pfeffer in a scene from the show in which they gather to celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights while hidden in the secret annex. The diary was then published around the world. When she learned about Anne’s death in the holocaust, Miep gave the papers to Otto who had been liberated from Auschwitz. After the families were betrayed and discovered by the Nazis on August 4 1944, following 25 months of hiding, Miep found Anne’s diary and kept it safe for her. Miep didn’t hesitate and along with some of Otto’s other employees, looked after the eight people cramped into the secret annex rooms above Otto’s business premises in Amsterdam.

A Small Light follows 20-something Dutch secretary Miep Gies who in 1942 was asked by her boss, Anne’s father Otto, to hide him and his family from the Nazis who were transporting Jews to concentration camps.

We Gather Together by Wendy Pfeffer