Mary is played by screen and stage actor Anjana Vasan, who plays guitarist-scientist Amina in Channel 4’s excellent comedy series We Are Lady Parts, and was seen recently opposite Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley in comedy feature film Wicked Little Letters, as well as having had roles in Killing Eve, Temple and Black Mirror season six episode “Demon 79“.
Jack Farthing as Thomas Royde
Thomas is a cousin to Nevile and a mysterious member of the Gull’s Point family, from which he is banished for reasons unknown at the beginning of the story. He’s playing by Jack Farthing, familiar to Poldark viewers as the treacherous George Warleggan, and the star of Rain Dogs, Chloe, The Serial Killer’s Wife and much more, including two previous Agatha Christie roles in The ABC Murders and Poirot.
Matthew Rhys as Inspector Leach
Inspector Leach is an invented character for this TV adaptation, and an amalgamation of several book characters who solve this murder mystery. When we meet him, he’s in a bad way, depressed and heavily drinking.
He’s played by Matthew Rhys, whose career really took off in the US with a long-standing role in Brothers & Sisters, and the co-lead in 1980s-set spy drama The Americans. Since then he’s starred as the titular character in the Perry Mason reboot, and recently played satirist George Carlin in Ivan Reitman’s 2024 film Saturday Night.
Adam Hugill as Mac
A mysterious valet who offers his services to Nevile Strange during the turbulence surrounding his court case, Mac is a question mark with a knack for violence and the whiff of ambition surrounding him. He’s played by Adam Hugill, seen recently in acclaimed BBC drama Sherwood, and on stage at the National Theatre playing footballer Harry Maguire in Dear England, as well as playing Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson in Terry Pratchett-inspired TV series The Watch.
ALSO APPEARING
– The Lost Boys and Mary & George’s Khalil Gharbia as playboy Louis Morel
– The Borderline, Motherland and Mandy’s Jackie Clune as housekeeper Mrs Barrett
– Casualty’s Olive, aka Grace Doherty, plays Mr Treves’ troubled schoolgirl ward Sylvia
– The Crown, Downton Abbey and Poldark’s Michael Culkin as the court judge
