The Arctic Monkeys are one of the vital profitable British bands of all time, so it ought to come as no shock that that they had large identify celebrities in a few of their music movies.
Adolescence star Stephen Graham has been in two completely different Arctic Monkeys movies, while Paddy Considine appeared within the music video for Go away Earlier than the Lights Come On in 2006.
Graham and Considine had been identified portions on the time although, even when they weren’t celebrities as they’re now. Graham had made his identify from Snatch and That is England while Considine had starred within the Oscar nominated movie In America.
When Graham appeared within the music video for When The Solar Goes Down, nonetheless, he had a co-star, Lauren Socha, lengthy earlier than she grew to become a well-known face on TV.
Socha appeared alongside Stephen Graham in her first ever on-screen position
Lauren Socha is greatest identified for showing in Misfits, to the purpose the place most followers of the present assume that this was her first on-screen position.
Earlier than that although she starred in When The Solar Goes Down alongside Graham, showing when she was simply 15 years previous, and likewise starred in a film The Unloved alongside Robert Carlyle.
The Arctic Monkeys ended up creating a brief movie off the again of When the Solar Goes Down nonetheless, Scummy Man, a 16-minute film that expanded on the story of the music video.
This revealed that Socha was taking part in a prostitute Nina hooked on medication who’s being managed by George, a ‘scummy man’ performed by Graham.
It was properly acquired, with The Guardian giving it a 4 star evaluate and saying: “Excellent performing grimly however compulsively captures a cycle of dependency, human and narcotic.
“Set amid abandoned warehouses and seedy neon-lit streets, it has harrowing however very actual scenes of injection, violence and, sometimes, glimpses of humour and lives lengthy since left behind.”
Socha went on to star in Misfits however has since confronted authorized bother and moved to a very completely different profession
The looks within the music video and subsequent brief movie clearly set Socha up properly as a result of she appeared in Misfits simply a few years later, turning into a cult traditional TV present and profitable her a BAFTA for her position as Kelly.
She left the present in 2011 due partly to off-screen troubles, culminating in a 4 month suspended jail sentence after it was discovered that she had dedicated racially aggravated assault on a taxi driver in 2012. She’s gone on to intermittently seem in TV reveals and movies, together with a extremely acclaimed BBC comedy collection The Different One created by Holly Walsh, the creator of Amandaland and Motherland.
In 2020 nonetheless it was revealed that Socha had taken on a brand new job working in a care dwelling helping aged residents in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Socha posted on X: “Second week working in a Care dwelling. Completely like it, and really feel proper at dwelling. Pretty bunch of individuals additionally.”
The actor has gone quiet on social media since then, most just lately posting about her two youngsters on TikTok in 2024.
