EXCLUSIVE: Talisa Garcia, Karan Gill, Elizabeth and Christian Cooke have joined the cast of the Suranne Jones– and Jodie Whittaker-starring ITV drama series Frauds.
As we revealed in January, the buzzy six-part drama from Ghosts producer Monumental Television stars Jones and Whittaker as a pair of confidence tricksters in southern Spain separated by a 10-year jail spell. Jones’ Bert attempts to lure Whittaker’s Sam out of retirement for one final multi-million pound art heist, but their toxic friendship could ruin them both before they pull off the job.
García (Baptiste, Blurred) joins the cast as Miss Take, a smart, funny, and acerbic Spanish trans woman in her fifties who hosts drag bingo at the club on the Costa del Sol. However, she feels drag is now holding her back and and Bert and Sam, despite their thorny history, might just be able to offer her salvation. Abdul Salis (F1, The Wheel of Time) plays her kind husband, Mateo.
Berrington (Lost Boys and Fairies, Good Omens) will play Jackie Diamond, a sharp-witted and sharp-mouthed magician’s assistant to her narcissistic husband The Great Diavolo (Lee Boardman), while Gill (The Decameron, Brian And Margaret) stars as Bilal, an idiosyncratic Bradford loner with an unusual secret – he’s the world’s greatest forger. Cooke (Rematch, Love, Rosie) plays Deegs, a Bradford money lender who tracks Bilal to Spain.
Also cast are Thaos Martin (Coolie), who plays Sam’s long-lost daughter who is a petty criminal, Kate Fleetwood (The Wheel of Time, Harlots) is no-nonsense East London ex-pat art dealer Celine and Javier Taboada (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Las Chicas del Cable) is charismatic Spanish prison guard Blas. Nansi Nsue (Past Lies, The Mallorca) plays determined Spanish cop Amaya
The show will air on ITV and STV in Scotland later this year and on the networks’ respective streaming services, ITVX and STV Player.
Lead actress Jones co-created the show with Anne-Marie O’Connor with the latter also writing. Giulia Gandini and Brian O’Malley are the directors, with ITV Studios handling international distribution.
Executive producers are Alison Owen and Katie Kelly on behalf of ITV Studios-owned Monumental Television, along with Debra Hayward, Alison Carpenter, Jill Forbes and Pat Tookey-Dickson. O’Connor also executive produces with Jones on behalf of TeamAkers.
