The Hollywood Reporter writes that Stephen Rea, Lindsay Duncan and Janet McTeer have signed on for Sundance Channel's upcoming miniseries THE HONOURABLE WOMAN, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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The show will feature almost 100 actors in its cast. Also among the talent are Andrew Buchan, Katherine Parkinson, Lubna Azbal and Tobias Menziesis.
The eight-part miniseries for BBC Worldwide is written and directed by Hugo Blick.
The series is a thriller centering on Nessa Stein (Gyllenhaal), who witnesses as a child her father's -- a Zionist arms supplier -- assassination. Stein inherits his company as an adult and uses the opportunity to provide arms to cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank instead. Stein is appointed to the House of Lords for her peace efforts between Israel and Palestine and finds herself at the center of a political controversy.
THE HONOURABLE WOMAN will begin filming in London on July 29 for a 2014 release on the Sundance Channel and BBC Two.
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