Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester play leads in Peter Moffat-scripted thriller as BBC faces pressure over diversityTwo black actors are to seem in the lead roles of a primetime British drama for the first time next month when Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester star in the original BBC1 thriller Undercover.
The show,about undercover police officers and death in custody, stars Okonedo as a tall-flying lawyer about to become the first black director of public prosecutions. Lester plays her husband and the father of her three children.
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Source: theguardian.com