The BBC's new darkly comedic thriller Honey begins tonight, November 14, on BBC One, following a young MI6 agent operating under deep cover in 1982 East Berlin.
The six-part series centres on Martha, a deep-cover agent for MI6 who is constantly at risk of being exposed. Surrounded by enemies, she tries to avoid detection by Friedrich, the new Stasi Head of Counter-espionage against British Targets, Berlin Office. Caught between Friedrich and the reckless CIA operative Aaron Neeland, she is blindsided by desire.
The BBC teased: "The risk of being garrotted or incarcerated is nothing compared to the horrifying ordeal of falling in love." The series has been described as a tender and flirty show that goes undercover in the 1980s to "explore a shadowy world of counter-espionage and risky but irresistible relations".
Who stars in Honey?
Ann Skelly, 29, an Irish actress who made her TV debut in the crime drama Red Rock, plays Martha Schmitt. She also starred as the lead in the drama film Kissing Candice and in the historical drama miniseries Death and Nightingales alongside Jamie Dornan and Matthew Rhys. More recently, she played Adelaide Guinness in the Netflix historical drama House of Guinness.
Rory Kinnear, 48, plays Graham Anderson. The English actor is known for playing Dave Fishwick in Bank of Dave and Bill Tanner in four James Bond films. He recently starred as Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and plays British Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge in the Netflix series The Diplomat.
More cast members
Nate Mann, 30, an American actor who appears in the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air, is among the main stars. Jannis Niewöhner, 34, a German actor known for playing Gideon de Villiers in the Timeless trilogy of films, plays Friedrich Baumann.
Sonita Henry, 49, an English actress from Kent, plays Anne Anderson. She had her first big TV role in Olympus as Medea, and later appeared in The Chelsea Detective, Black Cake and Wild Cherry as Detective Khan.
Sonia Ritter, an English actress and theatre director known for her role as Doreen Coleman in EastEnders, plays Ilse Huber. She made her TV debut in the ITV crime drama Hard Cases and has had three roles in EastEnders across her career.
Other stars in the series include Elena Flury as Lena Schneider, Gabija Jaraminaite as Sonja Krause, Oliver Cudbill as Stefan Peters, Julian Niedermeier as Otto Kowalski, Valentino Dalle Mura as Rolf Müller, Romualdas Lavrinovicius as Otto G Brunstrom, Sofia Oxenham as Greta Abstreiter and Lasse Boje Haye Weber as Hermann Metzl.
Honey airs on BBC One on Saturday from 9pm.
