LIAR’S Joanne Froggatt has joined the star-studded cast of the BBC’s new crime drama, Sherwood.
Joanne, 40, wowed viewers in the ITV drama and she will no doubt have TV fans just as gripped with her latest role.
Joanne will play a character called Sarah, who struggles to hide how uncomfortable she is in her soon-to-be father-in-law’s company.
Joanne’s involvement comes a day after The Celeb Report exclusively revealed how the all-star cast will also include The Crown’s Lesley Manville and her former Holding On co-star, David Morrissey.
Inspired in part by real events, and set in the Nottinghamshire mining village where writer James Graham grew up, Sherwood is a contemporary drama at the heart of which lie two shocking and unexpected killings that shatter an already fractured community and spark a massive manhunt.
As suspicion and antipathy build, between lifelong neighbours and towards the police forces who descend on the town, the tragic killings threaten to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners’ Strike three decades before.
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Detective Chief Superintendent Ian St Clair (David), is a lifer in the Nottinghamshire constabulary, having risen through the ranks.
Canny and a good judge of character, he is a formidable and empathetic detective with an impressive track record to prove it.
When he is tasked with finding the link between these two killings, he is forced to reunite with DI Kevin Salisbury (Robert Glenister), an old rival from the Metropolitan Police whose return to the town threatens heightens the already-febrile tensions running through the community.
Meanwhile Gary Jackson (Alun Armstrong) is a committed NUM member and one of the few miners from Ashfield on the picket line in the 80s.
He won’t let anyone forget it, even decades later, which sets him at odds with his neighbours.
His wife, Julie Jackson (Lesley) – estranged from her sister Cathy over their divided loyalties during the miners’ strike, is as stubborn as her husband but fiercely proud of the warm household she has created for her family.
Elsewhere, Andy Fisher (Adeel Akhtar) is a delicate and shy man who lost his wife years ago and has struggled to cope with that loss, ever since.
He leans on his son Neel (Bally Gill) for emotional support, and though Neel is much obliging, Andy feels like he’s losing his son to his son’s fiancée Sarah (Joanne).
