Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, ‘Baby Reindeer’ Emmy Nominee Tom Goodman-Hill Among 10 New Additions To Apple’s ‘Down Cemetery Road’

Apple TV+‘s thriller series Down Cemetery Road, based on the book from Slow Horses‘ Mick Herron, has added 10 to its cast.

Newcomers include BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar (Fool Me Once), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Femme), Emmy nominee Tom Goodman-Hill (Baby Reindeer), BAFTA winner Darren Boyd (Trying), Tom Riley (The Woman in the House), SAG Award nominee Adam Godley (The Great), Sinead Matthews (Hullraisers), Ken Nwosu (The Winter King), Fehinti Balogun (A Gentleman in Moscow) and Aiysha Hart (We Are Lady Parts).

As previously announced, Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson lead the ensemble. Akhtar will play Hamza, with Stewart-Jarrett as Downey, Goodman-Hill as Gerard, Boyd as C., Riley as Mark, Godley as Joe Silverman, Matthews as Denise (aka Wigwam), Nwosu as Rufus, Balogun as Amos, and Hart as Paula.

Exec produced by Slow Horses‘ Morwenna Banks, who also serves as lead writer, Down Cemetery Road centers on Sarah Tucker (Wilson), who becomes obsessed with finding a neighbor girl who disappeared in the aftermath of a house explosion in a quiet Oxford suburb. After enlisting the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm (Thompson) in her quest, the pair find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

In addition to Banks, exec producers on the project include Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta and Tom Nash of 60Forty Films, as well as Thompson and Herron. Natalie Bailey (Audrey) is serving as the show’s lead director.

Akhtar is represented by McEwan & Penford; Stewart-Jarrett by Curtis Brown, Gersh, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Goodman-Hill by Scott Marshall Partners, Ltd. and Luber Roklin Entertainment; Boyd by Independent Talent; Riley by Conway van Gelder Grant, Principal Entertainment LA, CAA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Godley by Artists Rights Group and attorney Chris Abramson; Matthews by Hamilton Hodell; Nwosu by United Agents and Alan Siegel Entertainment; Balogun by Markham, Froggatt & Irwin; and Hart by Curtis Brown and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.