Maggie Gyllenhaal Leads the Cast of The Honourable Woman

Sundance Channel LogoSundance Channel has set Stephen Rea, Janet McTeer, Lubna Azbal, Eve Best, Lindsay Duncan, Andrew Buchan, Katherine Parkinson, Tobias Menzies, Genevieve O’Reilly and Igal Naor to co-star with Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Honourable Woman. The eight part mini-series has just begun 18 weeks of shooting, with Sundance Channel aiming to air the drama in 2014.
 
The Honourable Woman was written and directed by Hugo Blick.
 
Details on the New Cast Members:
 
Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta) will play Hugh Hayden-Hoyle – “a top M16 spy on the verge of retirement, digging deep into Nessa Stein’s family. His bitter ex-wife Anjelica is played by Lindsay Duncan (The Hollow Crown).”
 
Janet McTeer (Damages, Albert Nobbs) plays “the Head of MI6 Julia Walsh — who has a personal hold over Hayden-Hoyle (Rea).”
 
Andrew Buchan is set to play “Nessa Stein’s (Gyllenhaal) brother Ephra Stein — seemingly over-shadowed by his sister within the Stein family business. Katherine Parkinson is his “highly strung pregnant wife Rachel Stein.”
 
Eve Best (Nurse Jackie) is Monica Chatwin, “a key MI6 agent from the Washington Bureau — spoiling for a fight with her UK counterparts. Multi-award winning Belgian actress Lubna Azbal plays Atika Halibi, nanny to Ephra and Rachel Stein’s two young daughters and close friend to Nessa.”
 
Tobias Menzies (Game of Thrones) plays opposite Gyllenhaal as “Nessa’s trusted personal body guard Nathaniel Bloom. Genevieve O’Reilly plays Nessa’s loyal personal assistant Frances.”
 
Igal Naor (300: Rise Of An Empire) plays “Shlomo Zahary, a close long-time ally of the Stein family.”
 
Source: Sundance Channel