Fast forward 150 years into the future, and the vision of Earth that humans are faced with is in equal parts intriguing and terrifying - or so decrees new sci-fi series Intergalactic. With police swapping cars for spacecraft as they patrol the skies and prisoners being transported away from Earth to far-flung colonies, the prospect is undeniably bleak. And yet it s an intrinsic part of the allure of Sky One s latest space-based show. Black Mirror actress Imogen Daines, who plays convicted cyber-hacker Verona says: You ve got the Common World - which is the Earth-based government, which is masquerading as a democracy but is, in fact, a dictatorship - and I think anyone living in America would just chime with that immediately.
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Savannah Steyn plays Ash Harper
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Who is Ash Harper? Ash is a galactic pilot working for the Commonworld authorities, who is framed for a treacherous crime at the beginning of the series and sent to an off-world prison colony.
What else has Savannah Steyn been in? This is Steyn’s first leading role, although she has appeared in an episode of A Discovery of Witches and also had recurring roles in drama series The Tunnel and BBC Three sitcom Wannabe.
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Her plans to return home safely are stopped when her fellow convicts overthrow the guards and hijack the Hemlock.
In the new clip, Eleanor is seen spitting at a guard before she is sent into a holding cell with several other convicts.
Character: The actress, 28, portrays Candy, a convicted drug mule from the planet Skov
A gangster named Tula Quik (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) stands in the middle of the room, eyeing the group when someone calls out her name. What? she answers. I’ve heard there’s a cop in here! the voice replies, sending Tula into a rage as she yells and kicks the wall.
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She is part of a species of human that has evolved by the year 2143, when the show is set, and her character can smell her environment as well as sense other people s emotions.
The Sky One show follows a group of female convicts who attempt to escape a prison spaceship - with dire results.
Transformation: Eleanor (pictured right in Poldark) swapped her trademark fiery locks for messy blonde hair
Different: Eleanor s character is a convict from the planet Skov, and she is believed to have a forked tongue as well as her visible scales
Set in a dystopian future, Intergalactic takes place on a planet under the control of an authoritarian body known as the Commonworld.