Natalie Dormer to Lead South African Crime Thriller 'White Lies'
Natalie Dormer is an actror well known to both Anglophiles and genre TV enthusiasts, thanks to her popular turns in series ranging from The Tudors and The Scandalous Lady W to Game of Thrones and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. But now she’s taking on a very different role as the lead in the high-tension South African crime thriller White Lies.
The series, created by Sean Steinberg and written by award-winning scriptwriter Darrel Bristow-Bovey, is described as an “urgent exploration of race and privilege, inequality and identity.”
Dormer will play Edie Hansen, an investigative journalist whose world plunges into chaos after her estranged brother’s murder in the wealthy neighborhood of Bishopscourt, Cape Town, particularly once his teenage children become the primary suspects in the crime. As Edie digs into the case, she finds herself forced to grapple with the crumbling local police force, a corrupt political system, and the secretive underbelly beneath the picturesque city’s extreme wealth.
