Rory Kinnear to play Lord Lucan for ITV

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Rory Kinnear will portray infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan in a new two-part ITV drama.

The series hopes to shed some new light on the circumstances surrounding the unsolved murder of his children's nanny in 1974 and his subsequent disappearance.

Lucan, which begins filming next month in London, explores his colourful life with his friends in the exclusive Clermont gambling club, the breakdown of his marriage to wife Veronica and his battle for the custody of his children.

The series has been written by Mrs Biggs author Jeff Pope.

Rory, whose powerful thriller Southcliffe starts on Channel 4 this Sunday and who plays M's Chief of Staff in the James Bond films, will star in the drama alongside Christopher Eccleston as John Aspinall, who ran the club, while Sir Michael Gambon also stars.

 

Caren Clark
Caren Clark

Caren has been a journalist specializing in TV for almost two decades and is a Senior Features Writer for TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and What’s On TV magazines and she also writes for What to Watch.

Over the years, she has spent many a day in a muddy field or an on-set catering bus chatting to numerous stars on location including the likes of Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Suranne Jones, Jamie Dornan, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Derek Jacobi as well as Hollywood actors such as Glenn Close and Kiefer Sutherland.

Caren will happily sit down and watch any kind of telly (well, maybe not sci-fi!), but she particularly loves period dramas like Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey and The Crown and she’s also a big fan of juicy crime thrillers from Line of Duty to Poirot.

In her spare time, Caren enjoys going to the cinema and theatre or curling up with a good book.