Emmy winner Jodie Comer is taking her abilities to HBO.
The “Killing Eve” star will headline the HBO restricted sequence “The Chain,” TVLine has realized. She’ll play Rachel, “a suburban mother who should contemplate the unthinkable when her daughter is kidnapped,” based on the official description.
Primarily based on the bestselling novel by Adrian McKinty, “The Chain” follows a prison scheme the place a mother or father’s baby is kidnapped and the one approach to get them again is for the mother or father to kidnap one other baby. “The Leftovers” alum Damon Lindelof will write and executive-produce the restricted sequence, which is alleged to be “increasing the mythology” of McKinty’s novel, and can function showrunner as properly. HBO handed the mission a straight-to-series order in January.
Comer is greatest recognized to TV followers for taking part in killer-for-hire Villanelle within the BBC America thriller “Killing Eve,” a job that gained her the Emmy for greatest lead actress in a drama in 2019. Her different TV credit embody “The White Princess” and the British COVID medical drama “Assist.”
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