The film stars Joe Thomas, Hannah Tointon, Emma Rigby, Hammed Animashaun and Claudia O'Doherty. Amin won the 2009 Hammed Shahidian Critical Feminist Paper Award jointly with Golrokh Jahangiri. Elaine is the general practitioner for Scarlet's social worker; Najmah Hammed (Effie Woods). Rick Lum hammed it up in a serious kind of way. Hammed began his professional footballing career in 2000 with Nigerian club, Balogun Owoseni FC.