A FORMER Coronation Street star looks a world away from her former character as she takes on a gritty new role for ITV.
Actress Katherine Kelly played Becky McDonald from 2006 until 2012, but now the star has taken on altogether different role.
ITV’s new thriller Protection stars Siobhan Finneran and Katherine Kelly[/caption]
The new gritty thriller sees Katherine Kelly take on a new type of role[/caption]
Appearing in ITV’s latest thriller series Protection, which is released this spring, sees Katherine team up with actress Siobhan Finneran who is known for her roles in Happy Valley, Alma’s Not Normal, Time and The Stranger.
Katherine has previously held roles in Mr Bates vs The Post Office, The Long Shadow and Netflix’s Criminal: UK.
However she’s well known for her role as Becky in the ITV soap, for which she received multiple awards, including the British Soap Award for Best Actress (2009) and the NTA for Best Serial Drama Performance (2012).
During her six years on the soap, Katherine’s storylines included marrying Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) and the introduction of her half-sister Kylie (Paula Lane) and nephew Max.
Now starring in Protection, the new thriller’s cast also features Bad Sisters and Save Me star Barry Ward and Sex Education’s Chaneil Kular.
New thriller Protection is about what happens when the clandestine and morally grey witness protection system breaks down.
The series has been inspired by a real-life witness protection officer who served in the Metropolitan Police for 30 years and has also acted as a series consultant.
The new compelling series has been created by Kris Mrksa, the acclaimed writer of White House Farm and No Escape.
Detective Inspector Liz Nyles (played by Finneran) is a single mum, juggling a difficult divorce and a sick father, when she finds herself at the heart of a security breach within her witness protection unit.
Professionally compromised by a secret affair with a colleague, she is determined to uncover the true source of corruption within the police.
Liz will stop at nothing to redeem herself, the reputation of her lover, and to keep her witnesses and her own family safe.
Even if it means breaking all the rules.
This is the story of a tough, but increasingly isolated and under suspicion police officer, as she is pulled into a dangerous conspiracy where nothing is as it seems.
