Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) is set to take on the lead role in the upcoming espionage spy thriller Ponies, which has been ordered straight to series at Peacock.
The series is set in Moscow, 1977. “Two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy.
“That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants.
“Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”
The series is being developed by co-creators Susanna Fogel (The Flight Attendant, The Spy Who Dumped Me) and David Iserson, with Clarke also set to executive produce.
Fogel will also direct for the series, and Iserson will serve as showrunner.
Clarke also is set to star in the upcoming Amazon series Criminal. She is best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen in the megahit HBO series Game of Thrones. Since then, she’s appeared in projects such as Secret Invasion, Me Before You, Last Christmas, The Pod Generation, Solo: A Star Wars Story, and Terminator Genisys.
