EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated The Lovers star Roisin Gallagher is among those who have been added to the cast of Lazarus, the Prime Video series from the team behind Fool Me Once.
Gallagher will be recurring cast, while David Fynn (The Inbetweeners), Karla Crome (Toxic Town), Kate Ashfield (Moonflower Murders) and Curtis Tennant have all been added as regulars.
The series from Harlan Coben, Fool Me Once writer Danny Brocklehurst and Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions stars Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin and Alexandra Roach. It follows a man who returns home after his father’s suicide and begins to have disturbing experiences that can’t be explained. He quickly becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the mystery of his father’s death and his sister’s murder 25 years ago.
Gallagher, who was BAFTA nominated for her role in Sky’s The Lovers, is playing Laura, a psychotherapist who seeks help from Dr L (Nighy). Fynn is Seth McGovern, Laz’s (Claflin) childhood best friend and a city detective whose life has been irrevocably shaped by a terrible event in his childhood. Crome is Bella, Laz’s childhood sweetheart and first wife, while Ashfield plays Detective Alison Brown, a close friend of Dr L’s. Newcomer Tennant plays Aidan, Bella’s son.
The show comes off the back of the stellar success of Netflix’s Fool Me Once, which is one of the streamer’s top 10 most-watched English language series of all time and came via Coben’s Netflix deal. Coben and Brocklehurst are writing and EPing Lazarus alongside Shindler and Richard Fee. Wayne Che Yip (Rings of Power, Utopia) will direct episodes one and two and will also serve as executive producer. Matt Strevens (Doctor Who, Capital) will produce. The series is produced by Quay Street Productions and Amazon MGM Studios in association with Final Twist Productions.
