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Handout photo issued by EE of Gemma Whelan at The Savoy, London, for the jury meeting to decide the five nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award 2020.
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Updated / Monday, 19 Apr 2021
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Gemma Whelan
Game Of Thrones star Gemma Whelan will star in a three-part police drama from the writer of Homeland.
ITV s The Tower, based on Post Mortem, the first book in author Kate London’s Metropolitan series, will feature Whelan as Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins.
She is charged with investigating after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof.
Within hours, both have gone missing and Collins sets out in search of them, while trying to uncover the truth behind the deadly fall.
Gemma Whelan to star in ITV crime thriller The Tower in lead role
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Gemma Whelan will headline ITV crime thriller The Tower, based on author Kate London s book Post Mortem. File Photo by Neil Hall/EPA
April 19 (UPI)
Game of Thrones alum Gemma Whelan has been cast in the lead role in upcoming ITV crime thriller,
The Tower.
Homeland writer Patrick Harbinson and is based on author Kate London s novel
Post Mortem.
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The novel is the first in a series from London that follows Detective Sgt. Sarah Collins and rookie cop Lizzie Griffiths. Whelan, best known as Yara Greyjoy on
Gemma Whelan (Matt Crossick/PA)
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Game Of Thrones star Gemma Whelan will star in a three-part police drama from the writer of Homeland.
ITV’s The Tower, based on Post Mortem, the first book in author Kate London’s Metropolitan series, will feature Whelan as Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins.
She is charged with investigating after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof.
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ITV announce new crime thriller with Game of Thrones star taking lead role
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