Netflix‘s House of Guinness has brewed its cast.
James Norton (Happy Valley, Bob Marley: One Love) and Jack Gleeson (Game of Thrones, In The Land of Saints and Sinners) have been named among the cast for Steven Knight-penned Guinness factory drama series.
Joining them are Niamh McCormack (Everything Now, The Magic Flute), Anthony Boyle (Masters of the Air, Manhunt), Louis Partridge (Pistol, Enola Holmes), Emily Fairn (The Responder, Black Mirror: Demon 79), Fionn O’Shea (Normal People, Dance First), Seamus O’Hara (Blue Lights, An Irish Goodbye), Dervla Kirwan (True Detective: Night Country, Smother), Michael McElhatton (Game of Thrones, The Long Shadow), Danielle Galligan (Shadow and Bone, Obituary), David Wilmot (Station Eleven, Bodkin) and Hilda Fay (The Woman in the Wall, Spilt Milk).
The series, from Banijay UK’s Kudos, is billed as an epic story inspired by The Guinness family, a European dynasty made famous by the drink they brew. Set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, the story reimagines the period immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the phenomenon that is Guinness.
Boyle plays Arthur, Partridge plays Edward, Fairy plays Anne and O’Shea is Benjamin. North will play Sean Rafferty, while McCormack will play Ellen Cochrane. Gleeson will be Byron Hughes.
The series was unveiled back in March as the latest series from Peaky Blinders and SAS: Rogue Heroes creator Knight. He’s also known as a co-creator of ITV gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, an Academy Award nominee for the screenplay of Dirty Pretty Things and the writer of Taboo, This Town, The Veil and All the Light We Cannot See.
Karen Wilson, Elinor Day, Martin Haines, Tom Shankland and Ivana Lowell are the executive producers, with Cahal Bannon the series producer and Howard Burch the producer. The Missing‘s Shankland will direct episodes 1-5, with Mounia All taking 6-8.
House of Guinness cast (James Norton and Emily Fairn were not present for the readthrough)
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“I am thrilled that we have such an exceptional cast and such an exceptional team to tell this story inspired by an exceptional family,” said Knight (pictured above at a readthrough with the cast).
“We are thrilled to be embarking on this epic and wondrous journey with our partners at Kudos,” said Anne Mensah, Netflix VP of UK Content. “Steve Knight’s scripts read like pages torn out of a classic novel, spinning the story of the four heirs to the Guinness fortune, and how their lives and loves are changed by it overnight. We cannot wait to see this story come to life through Tom Shankland’s inspired vision and his breathtaking cast.”