Netflix announces cast of Tannadice Pictures' 'Legends'

Netflix has announced the cast of Legends: a high-stakes, thrilling drama series.

Inspired by one of the most remarkable criminal investigations ever conducted. In the early 1990s, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise was losing its battle with illegal drug smuggling across Britain’s borders. The solution was extraordinary. In a top-secret operation, a small team of Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task - to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.

But these were not trained spies. They were average men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the UK, put through a basic training regime and tasked with building new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were their Legends.

The cast includes Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Souvenir), Steve Coogan (Philomena, The Reckoning), Tom Hughes (The English, Victoria), Hayley Squires (Beau Is Afraid, I, Daniel Blake), Charlotte Ritchie (YOU, Ghosts), Aml Ameen (A Man in Full, Rustin), Douglas Hodge (G20, Joker), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow, Great Expectations), Jasmine Blackborow (The Gentlemen, Marie Antoinette) and Gerald Kyd (The Assassin, Love Rat).

Legends is written and created by Neil Forsyth (The Gold, Guilt). It will be directed by Brady Hood (Top Boy, Great Expectations) and Julian Holmes (Reacher, The Boys). Ben Farrell (The Gold, Feel Good) & Neil Forsyth will executive produce for Tannadice Pictures and Richard Bradley for Lion Television. Charlie Leech is Series Producer.