MEERA SYAL PETER MULLAN

CURRENTLY PLAYING DWARF KING DURIN IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, Scottish actor and filmmaker Mullan’s recent credits also include The North Water, The Underground Railroad, Westworld, Mum and Ozark. The award-winning actor will next star in Payback, a six-part ITV drama from executive producer Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty), in which he plays notorious crime lord Cal Morris, who becomes the target of a perilous police operation led by Lexie Noble (Morven Christie). Unaware her husband has been laundering Cal’s illegal earnings, Lexie is soon forced to work for him as the police net tightens around them.

FANS OF ACCLAIMED DRAMA NORMAL PEOPLE MAY RECOGNISE MULLEN FROM HER ROLE AS PEGGY, who enters the lives of protagonists Marianne and Connell when they both start to attend Trinity College in Dublin. The Irish actor’s credits also include Red Rock, Vikings, Krypton, Women on the Verge, Into the Badlands and season three of Brassic, a comedy-drama following a group of friends in a forgotten corner of Northern England. She can now be seen in The Peripheral, the new futuristic tech drama from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, before she takes the lead in The Vanishing Triangle, commissioned by Virgin Media Television in Ireland and US streamer Sundance Now. Mullen plays reporter Lisa Wallance, who is working in the face of prejudice and police incompetence to investigate the mysterious murder of her own mother nearly 20 years earlier.