Fearless (British TV series)

Fearless is a six-part British crime thriller television drama series created by screenwriter Patrick Harbinson and broadcast on ITV in 2017. The series follows human-rights lawyer Emma Banville (Helen McCrory) as she tries to prove convicted murderer Kevin Russell innocent of the murder of schoolgirl Linda Simms 14 years earlier. Russell asserts that he is innocent of the crime, and Emma believes that his conviction was a miscarriage of justice. She goes to extreme lengths to discover the truth.

Supporting cast includes Michael Gambon as influential former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet Office Sir Alastair McKinnon, Jonathan Forbes as Emma's colleague Dominic Truelove, Wunmi Mosaku as DCS Olivia Greenwood, the Investigating Officer on the Linda Simms case, and John Bishop as Emma's boyfriend Steve Livesey.

Filming for the series began in September 2016 in London and East Anglia. The series debuted on ITV in the UK on 12 June 2017 and has received positive reviews, with critics praising Helen McCrory's performance. However, the show was cancelled in March 2018 after one series.

Main cast

 * Helen McCrory as Emma Banville, an experienced human rights lawyer
 * Jonathan Forbes as Dominic Truelove, a former police officer and Banville's legal assistant
 * Sam Swainsbury as Kevin Russell, a 37-year-old man who insists he was wrongly imprisoned for 14 years for the murder of Linda Simms
 * Rebecca Callard as Annie Peterson, Kevin's former fiancée and the mother of his son
 * Wunmi Mosaku as DCS Olivia Greenwood, a Counter Terrorism Command officer who previously led the Simms murder investigation
 * Robin Weigert as Heather Myles, a Central Intelligence Agency operative
 * John Bishop as Steve Livesey, Banville's photographer boyfriend
 * Jamie Bamber as Matthew Wild MP, a young politician and former soldier who later becomes Leader of the Opposition
 * Emma Hamilton as Laura Wild, wife of Matthew Wild
 * Michael Gambon as Sir Alastair McKinnon, the former Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Supporting cast

 * Eve Austin as Linda Simms, the 15-year-old girl murdered in 2003
 * Rick Warden as Charlie Simms, father of Linda
 * Cathy Murphy as Beth Simms, mother of Linda
 * Ben Cartwright as Phil Simms, uncle of Linda
 * Jack Hollington as Jason, the 14-year-old son of Kevin Russell and Annie Peterson
 * Christine Bottomley as DS Jenna Brooks, a Counter Terrorism Command officer
 * Karima McAdams as Miriam Attar, Syrian wife of a suspected terrorist and friend of Banville
 * Alec Newman as Tony Pullings, a photojournalist
 * Allan Corduner as Monty Berman
 * Jemima Rooper as Maggie Berman
 * Brendan Patricks as DCI Nicholas Staines, a Metropolitan Police Service detective
 * Armin Karima as Imran
 * Colin Stinton as Jack Kretchmer, the former US Under Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush
 * Catherine Steadman as Karen Buxton
 * Dhaffer L'Abidine as Dr. Yusef Attar, one of Banville's clients suspected of having ties to ISIS
 * Tim McMullan as David Nolenn
 * Pandora Clifford as Nicola Osborne
 * Jack Shepherd as Arthur Banville, Emma's terminally ill father
 * Kika Markham as Eleanor Banville, Emma's mother
 * James Thorne as Derek Peterson, Annie's husband and Jason's stepfather
 * Sam Crane as Luke
 * Sammy Winward as Siobhan Murphy
 * Corey Johnson as Larry Arlman, an American private investigator used by Banville and her colleagues
 * Jonah Lotan as Logan Bradley, a member of the United States Air Force