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Extraordinary Portraits

Led by our creative matchmaker, Tinie, Extraordinary Portraits invites ordinary people with extraordinary stories to sit for some of the most distinctive and ground-breaking artists in the world.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Roxana, Melissa and Georgia

    February 26, 2022
    29min
    7+
    Artist Roxana Halls is known for challenging how art depicts women. She has been given the task of depicting not one, but two sitters as she explores the unbreakable bond between Georgia and Melissa; twins who survived a near-fatal crocodile attack whilst swimming in a lagoon in Mexico.
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  2. S1 E2 - Christy and Cee Cee

    March 5, 2022
    29min
    ALL
    Celebrated international photographer Christy Lee Rogers helps Cee Cee, a model with albinism, on her journey from self-proclaimed "ugly duckling" to elegant swan.
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  3. S1 E3 - Dale and Patrick

    March 12, 2022
    29min
    ALL
    Dale Grimshaw, famed for his street murals with a fine art approach, builds a special bond with Patrick, a personal trainer from South London.
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  4. S1 E4 - Caroline and Alec

    March 19, 2022
    29min
    ALL
    This match sees Kelvin Okafor, a hyperreal artist who specialises in pencil portraits, draw Catrin Pugh, a survivor of a bus crash that left her with burns across 96% of her body.
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  5. S1 E5 - Thomas and Mark

    March 26, 2022
    29min
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    Thomas Croft, the artist behind Portraits for NHS Heroes, meets Mark, a former Royal Marine who survived an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2007.
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  6. S1 E6 - Kelvin and Catrin

    April 2, 2022
    29min
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    Portrait artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down.
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Directors

Peter Coventry

Cast

Tinie Tempah

Studio

Chatterbox Films
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