Netflix has revealed the full cast for its upcoming spy thriller series ‘Black Doves’. The series had already got British actress Keira Knightley on board as the lead protagonist. Now, two new talented actors have joined Knightley as the lead cast of the series. Netflix has announced that Ben Whishaw and Sarah Lancashire will join Keira Knightley in Black Doves in key roles.
The series comes from Joe Barton, who’s earlier helped create ‘Giri/Haji’, ‘The Lazarus Project’ and ‘The Bastard Son And The Devil Himself’. ‘Black Doves’ is directed by Alex Gabassi (The Crown) and Lisa Gunning (The Power).
As per Netflix Black Doves is an espionage story, with strong elements of friendship and sacrifice. Set in London in the midst of Christmas, Black Doves centres on Helen Webb (Keira Knightley), doting mother, and wife to a powerful politician. Unbeknownst to the world around her, she’s also a skilled professional spy, who works for a spy organization called Black Doves, and has been passing on her husband’s top-secret information to the organization she works for.
Helen also has a secret lover, Jason, whose assassination triggers chaos in her life. She turns to her old friend Sam Young (Ben Whishaw, the voice of Paddington) to help her get to the bottom of Jason’s murder. Sam has dark secrets of his own from an unsavoury past, which come back to haunt him. Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) plays Reed, head of Black Doves, the organization Helen works for.
Andrew Buchan, Omari Dougles, Andrew Koji, Kathryn Hunter, Sam Troughton, Ella Lily Hyland, Adam Silver, Ken Nwosu and Gabrielle Creevy form the rest of the cast of Black Doves.
The official synopsis of the six part series Black Doves reads – “Helen begins a passionate affair that may endanger her secret identity when her lover becomes victim to London’s underworld and her employers send an old friend to protect her. Together, they set off on a mission that will lead them to uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy, one that links the murky underworld of London to a looming geopolitical crisis — and leads them to question the cost of the moral choices they’ve made.”