Showtime Spy Thriller ‘The Agency’ Adds Five to Cast (Exclusive)
The Paramount+ With Showtime drama The Agency is continuing to build up its cast.
Five actors — Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler and Saura Lightfoot-Leon — have joined the espionage thriller, which stars Michael Fassbender and is based on the acclaimed French series Le Bureau des Legendes.
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The cast also includes Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston, John Magaro, and Richard Gere.
Currently filming in London, The Agency centers on Martian (Fassbender), “a covert CIA agent who’s ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London station,” per the show’s logline. “When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.”
Reznik (Babylon) will play Coyote, an undercover CIA agent. Brooke (After Life, Children of Men) will play another CIA officer who goes by Grandpa. Harris (Hacks, Frasier) will play Dr. Blake, a behavioral psychologist assigned to the agency. Fowler (The Nevers) plays Martian’s teenage daughter, Poppy. Lightfoot-Leon (Masters of the Air) plays Danny, a promising agent trainee.
Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios are producing The Agency. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are writing, and Joe Wright is directing the first two episodes. They executive produce with George Clooney and Grant Heslov (via their Smokehouse Pictures); Nina L. Diaz and Keith Cox of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios; David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari of 101 Studios; Alex Berger of TOP-The Originals Productions; Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton of Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America; and Fassbender.
epped by Paradigm and attorney Les Abell; Brooke, by Helen Robinson at United Agents; Harris, by BRS/GAGE Talent Agency; Fowler, by Curtis Brown Group and Goodman Genow; and Lightfoot-Leon, by Curtis Brown Group and Tapestry London.
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