Adeel Akhtar as Sami Kierce
Utopia, 4 Lions, Les Misérables, Enola Holmes and Sherwood actor Adeel Akhtar completely steals the present as Idiot Me As soon as’s detective Sami Kierce. A troubled man with a traumatic previous and a critical medical situation he’s attempting to cover from his colleagues, Kierce is tasked with investigating Joe Burkett and Claire Walker’s murders.
Richard Armitage as Joe Burkett
That is the third Harlan Coben UK thriller for Richard Armitage now, after he starred in The Stranger and Keep Shut – and performed totally different characters in every (consider it as a Richard Armitage/Harlan Coben anthology sequence). The star of The Hobbit movies, Hannibal and the BBC’s Robin Hood performs Joe Burkett on this one, the rich son of an unlimited dynasty with fingers in every kind of pies.
Joanna Lumley as Judith Burkett
UK nationwide treasure Joanna Lumley wants no introduction. She’s Purdey in The New Avengers, Sapphire in Sapphire and Metal, Patsy in Completely Fabulous and nicely, she’s Joanna Lumley isn’t she? Right here, Lumley performs don’t-mess Burkett household matriarch Judith, a complicated psychiatric specialist, the mom of the 5 Burkett siblings, and a little bit of a closed e-book.
Emmett J. Scanlan as Shane Tessier
You’ll recognise Emmett J. Scanlan from Misfits, Derry Ladies, Within the Flesh, Peaky Blinders, Gangs of London and just lately, crime thriller Kin. Right here, he performs Shane Tessier, a army police officer and former comrade turned right-hand-man of Michelle Keegan’s Maya Stern.
Dino Fetscher as Marty McGregor
Fetscher is a well-recognized face from Channel 4/AMC AI sci-fi People, in addition to Russell T Davies’ dystopian household drama Years and Years, and extra just lately Sally Wainwright’s Gentleman Jack and Apple TV+’s sci-fi epic Basis. In Idiot Me As soon as, he performs police detective Marty, the goofy teen assigned to pair up with Adeel Akhtar’s long-suffering Sami Kierce.
Laurie Kynaston as Corey Rudzinski
Just lately, actor Laurie Kynaston has starred in Paramount drama The Doll Manufacturing facility, in addition to an episode of Prime Video’s big-budget adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman in 2022. You might need seen him in The Man Who Fell to Earth TV sequence, as Philip in Derry Ladies, or as Jimmy within the BBC’s sensible adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life. Right here, he performs the mysterious “Corey the Whistle”.
