She’s performed by Australian actor Eliza Scanlen, whose breakout roles got here in HBO’s 2018 adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects, and in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 function movie Little Ladies, wherein Scanlen performed second-to-youngest March sister Beth. She’s just lately appeared reverse Physician Who’s Ncuti Gatwa on this 12 months’s Nationwide Theatre manufacturing of The Significance of Being Earnest.
Julianne Nicholson as Kate Galloway
Kate is cruelly pressured to search out her personal manner after she loses her job, and has to go to excessive lengths to offer a dwelling for her and her teenage daughter Evie, a intelligent woman with the potential to be among the many first ladies within the UK to go to college.
She’s performed by US actor Julianne Nicholson, who’s at the moment showing as the rich Sinatra in Disney/Hulu political thriller Paradise (which has simply been renewed for a second season). She’s identified for Legislation & Order, The Outsider, having performed Esther in Boardwalk Empire, Lillian in Masters of Intercourse and Lorri within the first season of Kate Winslet-starring crime drama Mare of Easttown.
Umi Myers as Billie Cassidy
Billie is a Soho nightclub dancer who lives a bohemian, drink and drug-fuelled way of life together with her singer pal Eddie Cobb. She’s performed by Umi Myers, a current graduate of the Guildhall College of Music and Drama, with earlier stage components and an look in Bob Marley: One Love. Dope Women is Myers’ first tv lead position.
Geraldine James as Isabella Salucci
The matriarch of the fearsome Salucci crime household, Isabella is a ruthless survivor who’s held her clan collectively by the Warfare and rather more. She’s performed by Geraldine James, a well-known face on display and stage who’s had a protracted and wholesome profession going again to the late Seventies. To some TV viewers, she’ll at all times be indivisible from the a part of Sarah in The Jewel within the Crown, to others, she’ll be greatest recognised as Rose from Band of Gold, Milner in Channel 4’s Utopia, Mrs Hudson within the Man Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies, and Marissa in Anne With an E, to call just some.
Dustin Demri-Burns as Damaso Salucci
A Salucci son, Damaso is a member of a strong Soho crime household, and has a terrifying brutal aspect. He’s performed by Dustin Demri-Burns, who’s well-known for comedy roles in Cardinal Burns, Stath Lets Flats, GameFace and Am I Being Unreasonable?, however has an equally wholesome profession in dramas with a comedic edge from The Nice to Gradual Horses, Britannia, Sweetpea and The Decameron.
