Been So Long
A single mother in London's Camden Town hears music when she meets a handsome stranger with a past. But she's not sure she's ready to open her heart.

Main Cast
Michaela Coel
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (born October 1, 1987), known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum (2015–2017), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance; and the BBC One/HBO comedy-drama series I May Destroy You (2020) for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 2021. For her work on I May Destroy You, Coel was the first black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Coel is also known for her work in other Netflix productions, including guest-starring in the series Black Mirror (2016–2017), starring as Kate Ashby in the series Black Earth Rising (2018) and as Simone in the film Been So Long (2018).
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Arinzé Kene
Arinze Kene is a British actor and playwright.
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Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo
Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo is an English actress. She studied acting for three years from 2010 at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She graduating a Bachelor of Arts degree in Acting (H Level) in 2013. She is best known as Jack Starbright in the teen spy thriller series Alex Ryder (2020). She has also acted in the 10th series, Doctor Who. In 2018, she appeared in Netflix’s original music Bean So Long. She first entered the theater and trained her acting skills. She gets to play Ṣadé in the pilot of the Channel 4 television production Big Age, in 2021.
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George MacKay
George MacKay (born March 13, 1992) is an English actor. His first acting job was Peter Pan at the age of 10 and since then he has kept on acting. George is best known for his roles in 'Sunshine on Leith, 'For Those in Peril', 'Pride', 'Captain Fantastic' and the recently Golden Globe and Bafta best picture winner '1917'. His stage work is equally impressive; he has been on 'Ah, Wilderness' at the Young Vic and 'The Caretaker' with Timothy Spall and Daniel Mays at the Old Vic Theatre.
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Joe Dempsie
Joseph Maxwell Dempsie (born 22 June 1987) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2013; 2017–2019). Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000), Doctors (2001–2003), and Sweet Medicine (2003), as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands (2003). He also appeared in This is England '86 (2010) and This is England '90 (2015), Born and Bred, a BBC documentary-drama about Tony Martin, and as the villainous John in The Fades (2011).
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Ashley Thomas
Ashley Thomas (born February 4, 1985) is an English recording artist and actor, also known by his stage name Bashy.
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Rakie Ayola
Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola is a Welsh actress. She was born in Cardiff in May 1968, to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Nigerian father, and was raised by her mother's cousin and his wife in the Ely district of the city. She studied at Glan Ely High School, and was a member of the Orbit Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Theatre, South Glamorgan Youth Choir and the National Youth Theatre of Wales. She went on to attend the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying for a three-year acting diploma.
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Jo Martin
Jo Martin is a British television and film actress. She is perhaps most well known for portraying the Fugitive Doctor in BBC's science-fiction series "Doctor Who".
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Movie Details
Production Info
- Director:
- Tinge Krishnan
- Production:
- BFI, Film4 Productions
Key Crew
- Executive Producer:
- Ian Bricke
- Executive Producer:
- Jane Wright
- Executive Producer:
- Eva Yates
- Casting:
- Julie Harkin
- Original Music Composer:
- Arthur Darvill
Locations and Languages
- Country:
- GB
- Filming:
- GB
- Languages:
- en