Alex Hassell & Jennifer Ehle Join ITV Space Drama ‘First Woman’
Alex Hassell and Jennifer Ehle have joined the cast of 'First Woman,' a six-part lunar thriller produced by Mammoth Screen, Alcon Television, and ZDF, alongside Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Walters. The series follows Claire Reith, the first woman on the moon, who mysteriously disappears, prompting an investigation by a space authority investigator and her husband on Earth. Set in both Mission Control and the lunar surface, the drama explores political and personal tensions amid a high-stakes space mission.
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Alex Hassell and Jennifer Ehle DWGH Photography, UK Telegraph EXCLUSIVE: Rivals star Alex Hassell and Contagion‘s Jennifer Ehle have joined the cast of First Woman, the lunar thriller series we revealed news of last week. They will appear alongside stars Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Walters in the six-part drama, which comes ITV Studios-owned Mammoth Screen, Alcon Television and Germany’s ZDF. The series, from Lydia Yeoman and George Oakes, follows Claire Reith (Riseborough), a biologist in a groundbreaking research project and the first woman to set foot on the moon, who disappears, throwing suspicion on her fellow astronauts and a rival Chinese base. Thousands of miles away on Earth, her husband, Ben (Walters), searches for the truth.
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