Jamie Dornan has signed up for a lead role in The Fall, BBC Two’s new psychological thriller, starring opposite Gillian Anderson.
Written by Allan Cubitt and set in Belfast, the series casts Anderson as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, a senior Metropolitan Police officer brought in to take charge of a faltering murder investigation. Dornan plays Paul Spector, a married father of two who works as a bereavement counsellor while secretly stalking and killing young women across the city.
As Gibson closes in, the drama plays out as a tense game of cat and mouse between the two, cutting between the methodical detective and the killer hiding in plain sight. The Fall is among BBC Two’s most ambitious new commissions.