The Honourable Woman
| The Honourable Woman | |
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| Genre |
Political thriller Spy thriller |
| Written by | Hugo Blick |
| Directed by | Hugo Blick |
| Starring |
Maggie Gyllenhaal Philip Arditti Lubna Azabal Andrew Buchan Eve Best Lindsay Duncan Janet McTeer Tobias Menzies Igal Naor Genevieve O'Reilly Katherine Parkinson Stephen Rea |
| Composer(s) | Martin Phipps |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Greg Brenman Polly Hill |
| Producer(s) | Hugo Blick Abi Bach |
| Cinematography | Zac Nicholson George Steel |
| Editor(s) | Jason Krasucki |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
BBC Worldwide Drama Republic Eight Rooks SundanceTV |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Two (UK) SundanceTV (US) |
| Picture format | 16:9 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 3 July – 21 August 2014 |
| External links | |
| www |
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The Honourable Woman is a 2014 British political spy thriller television miniseries in eight parts, directed and written by Hugo Blick for the BBC and SundanceTV. Featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal in the title role, it aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2014 and premiered on SundanceTV in the United States on 31 July 2014. An advance screening of the series was held on 7 April 2014 at the MIPTV Media Market.
The Honourable Woman received positive reviews, with Gyllenhaal winning a Golden Globe Award for her performance, and the series was awarded a Peabody Award in 2015.
Eight years after taking over the family company from her brother Ephra Stein, Anglo-Jewish businesswoman Nessa Stein is made a life peer for her continued commitment to the Middle East peace process. She becomes The Rt Hon. The Baroness Stein of Tilbury.
When her new business partner dies in a mysterious suicide, Lady Stein is forced to delay the third phase of an ambitious and long-planned project: connecting the West Bank with optical fibre cables. Various stakeholders manoeuvre for influence in connection with this venture.
The stakes become the highest possible for the family when Kasim, the son of Atika Halibi, a Palestinian translator/housekeeper and Nessa Stein's very close friend, is kidnapped. Soon, a mystery around his parentage comes to light, and further secrets are revealed.
Hugo Blick re-uses several actors from his previous series The Shadow Line (e.g. Stephen Rea, Tobias Menzies and Eve Best).
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