Thriller SECRETS & SPIES

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and SARAH LANCASHIRE on the thrill of playing dangerous double agents

- REBECCA MAHONEY

BLACK DOVES
FROM THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER, NETFLIX THRILLER

Queen of period dramas Keira Knightley is swapping corsets for covert operations in a new Christmas-set spy thriller, which also stars Happy Valley's Sarah Lancashire as we've never seen her before...

Brimming with action, dry humour and festive London charm, Netflix six-parter Black Doves follows Helen Webb (played by Keira), who's a domestic goddess to her politician husband, Conservative Minister of State for Defence Wallace Webb (Broadchurch's Andrew Buchan), and devoted mother to their young twins, Oliver and Jacqueline.

But Helen is harbouring dark secrets: not only is she a professional spy, but for 10 years, she's been stealing Government information from Wallace for a private espionage organisation called Black Doves.

What's more, she's been having an affair and her lover, Jason Davies (The Innocents star Andrew Koji), is murdered as the series begins. Is her cover about to be blown?

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