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‘First Woman’: Ben Miles, Jimmy Akingbola, Shazad Latif & More Join ITV & ZDF’s Lunar Mystery Thriller

Deadline·Jesse Whittock·6 months ago
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EXCLUSIVE: ITV and ZDF ‘s space mystery First Woman has rounded out its main cast.

Ben Miles ( Andor , The Crown ), Jimmy Akingbola ( Bel-Air , The Tower ), Katheryn Gallagher ( Woman of the Hour , You ), Christian Ochoa Lavernia ( In the Grey , Neuromancer ), Shazad Latif ( Wuthering Heights , Nautilus ) and Fra Fee ( Unchosen , Losy Boys and Fairies ) have been joined the drama series.

They’ll join leads Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Walters , and Jennifer Elhe and Alex Hassell, who were announced last week. Philip Martin is the director.

The series, from Lydia Yeoman and George Oakes, follows Claire Reith (Riseborough), a biologist in a groundbreaking research project and the first woman to set foot on the moon, who disappears, throwing suspicion on her fellow astronauts and a rival Chinese base. Thousands of miles away on Earth, her husband, Ben (Walters), searches for the truth.…

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