Other stars in A Spy Among Friends include Motherland star Anna Maxwell Martin as Lily Thomas, plus The Young Ones legend Adrian Edmondson as MI5’s Director General Sir Roger Hollis. Guy recently went back to television to star alongside Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown. Confidential (1997), Memento (2000), The Time Machine (2002), The King's Speech (2010), Prometheus (2012), and the Marvel action movie Iron Man 3.

His break into movies came in the 1994 movie The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert before starring in movies such as L.A. He was married to Harry Potter and Peaky Blinders star Helen McCrory who sadly died in 2021.Ĭo-star Guy Pearce started off on television as Mike Young in the Australian soap Neighbours from 1986 to 1989. (Image credit: ITV) A Spy Among Friends castĭamian Lewis, who plays Nicholas Elliot, is best known for hit dramas such as Band Of Brothers, Homeland and Billions. I’ve always been fascinated by the intriguing MI6 history and getting to go on this journey with Damian makes it all the more brilliant.'Īnna Maxwell Martin as Lily Thomas.

Guy Pearce adds: 'It’s an honour to be a part of this thrilling project. ‘It’s been a fantastic creative process.'’ 'These fabulous scripts by Alex Cary take an up-close look at friendship - a friendship that was blinded by love, class, and membership to the right clubs, and ended in betrayal and the deaths of thousands,’ says Damian Lewis, who is also a producer on the drama. The drama explores the tight-knit, long-standing relationship between the two men and highlights how Kim Philby’s actions had a devastating impact on British and American intelligence and far-reaching consequences for the ongoing dealings between Russia and the West. The six-part Cold War-set series sees Damian Lewis play Nicholas Elliott, who works as an intelligence officer for MI6 and is left in turmoil when, in 1963, his close friend and colleague Kim Philby, played by Guy Pearce, decides to defect to Russia after secretly working as a double agent for the KGB. A Spy Among Friends is based on the best-selling book by author Ben Macintyre (opens in new tab) (who also wrote Operation Mincemeat).

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