Rhys Ifans Cast in ‘Berlin Station’ Spy Series

Rhys Ifans Joins the Berlin Station Cast
Rhys Ifans pictured in a scene from ‘The Five Year Engagement’ (Photo © 2012 Universal Pictures)

Rhys Ifans (The Five Year Engagement, The Amazing Spider-Man) has signed on to the EPIX series Berlin Station, an upcoming spy thriller executive produced by Michaël Roskam, Olen Steinhauer, showrunner Brad Winters, Eric Roth, Steve Golin, Kerry Kohansky-Roberts, Keith Redmon, and Luke Rivett.

Roskam is also directing episodes one and two of the 10-part series, which will premiere in 2016.

Spy novelist Steinhauer is writing the series. Ifans is joining Richard Jenkins who was previously announced as starring in the project.

Announcing Ifans’ casting, President and CEO of EPIX Mark S. Greenberg said, “Rhys is an international star whose ability to play a wide range of characters has placed him in the rarefied group of actors who travel seamlessly between feature films and premium television. He is truly an amazing addition to this ensemble cast.”

The Plot:

Berlin Station follows Daniel Meyer, a newly anointed case officer who has arrived at the CIA foreign station in Berlin, Germany. Meyer has a clandestine mission: to uncover the source of a leak who has supplied information to a now-famous whistleblower named “Thomas Shaw.” Guided by jaded veteran Hector DeJean (Ifans), Daniel learns to contend with the rough-and-tumble world of the field agent—agent-running, deception, the dangers and moral compromises.

As he dives deeper into the German capital’s hall of mirrors and uncovers the threads of a conspiracy that leads back to Washington, Daniel wonders: Can anyone ever be the same after a posting to Berlin?