Sky embarks on The Iris Affair
TRAILER: Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander play a game of cat and mouse across Italy in The Iris Affair, a chase thriller coming to Sky and streamer Now from October 16.
When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she’s led to a piazza in Florence, where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Hollander). He invites her to work with him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence — and vanishes.
What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia to the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic.
The cast also includes Kristofer Hivju, Harry Lloyd, Meréana Tomlinson, Sacha Dhawan, Maya Sansa, Peter Sullivan, Debi Mazar, Marco Leonardi, Angela Bruce and Lorenzo De Moor.
The Iris Affair is created, written and showrun by Neil Cross (Luther) and directed by Terry McDonough (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) and Sarah O’Gorman (A Gentleman in Moscow, The Witcher). It is produced and distributed by Fremantle.
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