Emilia Clarke to Star in Peacock Spy Series ‘Ponies’

Sport of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is including one other collection to her schedule.

The a number of Emmy nominee will star in Ponies, a spy thriller that has landed a straight-to-series order at Peacock. The Chilly Warfare-era present comes from Common Tv and co-creators Susanna Fogel (Booksmart, The Flight Attendant) and David Iserson (Mr. Robotic).

Clarke is at present filming one other streaming collection, Prison, for Amazon’s Prime Video. She stars reverse Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes and Adria Arjona (amongst others) in that drama, primarily based on the graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Ponies is ready in Moscow in 1977. It facilities on two “PONIES”(individuals of no curiosity) who work anonymously as secretaries on the American embassy — till their husbands are killed beneath mysterious circumstances in the USSR and so they turn into CIA operatives. Clarke will play Bea, an overeducated, Russian-speaking baby of Soviet immigrants. The opposite lead character, Twila (who has but to be solid), is a small-town lady who’s each abrasive and fearless. The pair work collectively to uncover a conspiracy and unearth what made them widows.

Fogel and Iserson are co-writing the collection, with Fogel additionally directing and Iserson serving as showrunner. They govt produce with Jessica Rhoades (Station Eleven, Sharp Objects) through her Pacesetter Productions, and Clarke; Katherine Bridle and Pacesetter’s Alison Mo Massey are co-EPs.

Clarke’s latest credit embrace the Marvel collection Secret Invasion for Disney+ and Sundance award winner The Pod Technology. She made her West Finish stage debut in 2022 in a manufacturing of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.