Industry continues to add big names for its upcoming fourth season. Kal Penn (Designated Survivor), Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton and Claire Forlani (Departure) have joined the cast of the HBO/BBC finance drama.
They will appear alongside fellow new additions Max Minghella, Kiernan Shipka, Jack Farthing, Toheeb Jimoh and Amy James-Kelly.
Penn will play Jay Jonah Atterbury, CEO and co-founder of payment processor Tender, a company that is expected to be a major focus in Season 4, with Minghella playing Whitney Halberstram, the CFO and co-founder, and Shipka portraying Haley Clay, an executive assistant at Tender.
Heaton will play Jim Dycker, a finance journalist. Forlani will portray Cordelia Hanani-Spyrka, corporate PR heavy-hitter.
Farthing plays Edward Smith, a troublemaker and long-time friend of Henry’s. Jimoh portrays Kwabena Bannerman, trader at Mostyn Asset Management. James-Kelly plays Jennifer Bevan, the newly promoted Minister in the Labour government.
They join returning cast including Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Ken Leung, Sagar Radia, Kit Harington, and Miriam Petche. Filming on the eight-episode Season 4 of Industry, produced by Bad Wolf, has started in the U.K.
Industry, created, written, and executive produced by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, gives an insider’s view of the blackbox of high finance following a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment and sex and drug fueled blitz of international bank Pierpoint & Co’s London office.
Penn is repped by UTA, Industry Entertainment and Fuller Law. Heaton is repped by Gersh, Independent Talent Group and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Forlani is repped by Gersh and Mosaic.
