Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson and Bill Nighy lead cast for new BBC Agatha Christie adaptation

It’s set to be a star-studded production
Star turn: Eleanor Tomlinson will appear alongside Bill Nighy in the new adaptation
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Poldark star Eleanor Tomlinson and award-winning actor Bill Nighy are set to star in the upcoming BBC adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Ordeal by Innocence.

Screenwriter Sarah Phelps, who also worked on the BBC’s two previous takes on the Christie works And Then There Were None and Witness for the Prosecution, will be adapting the story.

Downton Abbey’s Matthew Goode will also appear, as will American actress Catherine Keener, Morven Christie from The Replacement and Luke Treadaway, best known for his role in A Street Cat Named Bob.

Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick, is also among the castmembers, fresh from his BBC Two comedy White Gold, while Star Wars’ Crystal Clarke, Maleficent’s Ella Purnell and Black Mirror’s Alice Eve, complete the list.

It’s not the first time the BBC has pulled in big names for one of its Agatha Christie adaptations - Kim Cattrall starred as wealthy Emily French in Witness for the Prosecution last year, while Eleanor Tomlinson follows in her Poldark co-star Aidan Turner’s footsteps, as he was one of the unfortunate strangers gathered on a remote island in And Then There Were None.

The BBC revealed the cast list via the BBC One Twitter account with a short video of the actors accompanied by a tweet that read “JUST IN: All-star cast announced for our upcoming three-part adaptation of @agathachristie’s Ordeal By Innoncence.”

Ordeal by Innocence is expected to air later this year.

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