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‘African Queens: Cleopatra’ Director Tina Gharavi Options Icelandic Bestseller & Tees Up International Crime Thriller Series ‘The Fox’


BAFTA-Nominated Tina Gharavi to Produce & Direct New UK-Iceland Crime Series ‘The Fox’ Based on Bestselling Novel

Gharavi helmed Jada Pinkett Smith’s four-part Netflix docudrama African Queens: Cleopatra and is currently directing Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day. She will introduce a new British character to proceedings, said to be loosely based on the Robbie Coltrane’s Fitz in the classic crime drama Cracker and the real-life writer and feminist Germaine Greer. It stars Haley Bennett ( The Girl on the Train), Timothy Spall ( Mr Turner), Elyas M’Barek ( This Crazy Heart), Jennifer Saunders ( Absolutely Fabulous) and Lily Allen ( Dreamland).

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