Florisa Kamara Joins Eddie Redmayne In ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Series For Peacock

EXCLUSIVE: EastEnders alumna Florisa Kamara is set as a series regular opposite Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch in Peacock‘s upcoming series The Day Of The Jackal, Deadline has learned.

The series is based on the Frederick Forsyth novel and 1973 film adaptation from Universal Pictures. However, it has been reimagined as a contemporary story set amidst the current turbulent geo-political landscape and will delve deeper into the chameleon like ‘anti-hero’.

Redmayne plays The Jackal, a professional assassin hired by a French paramilitary dissident to kill French President Charles de Gaulle in 1962. Lynch portrays law enforcement agent Bianca. We hear Kamara will play Lynch’s daughter Jasmine.

Top Boy creator and writer Ronan Bennett writes and serves as showrunner. Brian Kirk, who has directed episodes of Game of Thrones and Luther, will direct. It is produced by Universal International Studios’ Carnival Films, which is best known for producing Downton Abbey.

Redmayne will also exec produce alongside Carnival Films’ Gareth Neame and Nigel Marchant, Sky Studios’ Sam Hoyle. Marianne Buckland serves as co-exec producer, Frederick Forsyth is consulting producer and Christopher Hall is a producer.

Kamara’s credits include a series regular role on BBC’s Silverpoint, BBC America’s EastEnders and Bulletproof (BBC/The CW). Her film work includes a supporting role in the Craig Gillespie-directed Disney film Cruella. Kamara is repped by Matt Sherman Management and Mark Jermin Management in the UK.