The Honourable Woman

Synopsis

Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

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• BBC Two↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  as Nessa Stein
• 
  Stephen Rea
  as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle
• 
  Lubna Azabal
  as Atika Halibi
• 
  Katherine Parkinson
  as Rachel Stein
• 
  Janet McTeer
  as Julia Walsh
• 
  Lindsay Duncan
  as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle

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