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Trainspotting and Broadwalk Empire actress Kelly Macdonald is to play the police officer suspected of corruption in season six of BBC One’s smash-hit crime drama Line Of Duty. Macdonald will star as Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson, who draws the attention of anti-corruption unit AC-12 for her unconventional…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire, The Girl in the Café, No Country for Old Men) has been cast alongside Colin Firth in the See-Saw Films and Cohen Media Group film Operation Mincemeat, directed by John Madden. The WWII drama, which is an adaptation of Ben Macintyre's 2010 book, takes place in…

Tim Winton's fiction has served the Australian film industry well over the past few years, notably his short stories, but Dirt Music is the first of his novels to reach the big screen. Helmed by Gregor Jordan, last feted at TIFF for 2001's anarchic Buffalo Soldiers, it stars Garrett Hedlund in a torrid tale of love…

EXCLUSIVE: The romantic intensity between Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund in this new clip from the Gregor Jordan’s drama Dirt Music is front and center — but there is also a hint that this is an illicit affair. Based on the novel of the same name by Tim Winton and adapted by Jack Throne, the Jordan-directed…

Kelly Macdonald spent five years working on HBO period drama Boardwalk Empire but her latest role is a short, sharp four hours and out. She stars in The Victim, a mini-series for the BBC and BritBox in the U.S. as Anna Dean, a Scottish mother whose nine-year old boy was murdered fifteen years ago by a 13-year old…

BritBox has acquired BBC One's Kelly Macdonald-fronted crime drama The Victim as the anchor of its forthcoming fall slate. The four-part STV Studios-produced series will air exclusively on the SVOD service as a BritBox Original Drama. It was created by The Man In The High Castle writer Rob Williams and is co-funded…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a racy first look at Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) and Kelly Macdonald (No Country For Old Men) in Oz-UK drama Dirt Music. Shoot began last month on director Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) movie, adapted from Tim Winton's novel by Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts). Producers are Finola Dwyer and Amanda…

Principal photography commences this week in Australia on Gregor Jordan's (Buffalo Soldiers) movie Dirt Music, adapted from Tim Winton's novel by Jack Thorne (The Aeronauts). As we previously revealed, Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men) and Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) will star in the film. They will be joined by…

EXCLUSIVE: Mudbound star Garrett Hedlund and Boardwalk Empire‘s Kelly Macdonald are in final negotiations to lead cast in long-awaited movie Dirt Music, I can reveal. The anticipated drama, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s Booker Prize-nominated novel about simmering passion and revenge in the Australian outback, is…

Agnes is a New York housewife with two teenage boys and a loving husband who works all day in an auto repair shop and expects dinner on the table when he gets home at night. He’s not a chauvinist; it’s just organic for him, the way he was brought up in a blue-collar neighborhood. As for Agnes, she is still living in…

EXCLUSIVE: Puzzle and Boardwalk Empire star Kelly Macdonald has lined up a leading role in BBC One/Netflix's upcoming thriller Giri/Haji, Deadline understands. I hear Macdonald will play Sarah, a London-based forensics lecturer and policewoman who forms an unlikely friendship with a Japanese detective searching for…

Trainspotting star Kelly Macdonald is to star in BBC One legal drama The Victim, created by The Man In The High Castle writer Rob Williams. Macdonald will be joined in the British thriller by Four Weddings and a Funeral star John Hannah and rising actor James Harkness. Macdonald, who has also previously appeared in TV…