Informer (TV series)

Synopsis

Cast

• Paddy Considine as DS Gabe Waters, a counterterrorism officer for the fictional Counter-Terrorism Special Unit. Haunted by his past undercover work for the Met's Special Branch, infiltrating a far-right movement in Dewsbury, North Yorkshire, he struggles to balance his workload with time for his wife and daughter.
• Nabhaan Rizwan as Raza Shar, a British Pakistani who is coerced by Gabe into working as an informer to uncover information about a possible cell connected with a terrorist attack in the Netherlands.
• Bel Powley as DC Holly Morten, a young officer recently selected to join the Counter-Terrorism Special Unit and assigned as Gabe's partner, though her inquisitive nature threatens his police work on many occasions.
• Fehinti Balogun as Officer Cooper
• Sharon D. Clarke as DCI Rose Asante
• Reiss Jeram as Nasir Shar, younger brother of Raza, unpopular at school and with few friends, an absent older brother, and an alcoholic father, he soon becomes easily influenced by Akash.
• Arinzé Kene as Sal Brahimi, a former professional boxer known as “Big Shot”, who owns a boxing gym frequented by Raza and Dadir, and is later discovered to be a recruiter for the London terror cell.
• Roger Jean Nsengiyumva as Dadir Hassan, a third-generation British Somali befriended by Raza Working as a drug dealer in East London, his suspected terrorist connections are of interest to Raza's informing work.
• Jessica Raine as Emily Waters, wife of Gabe, while she is initially loyal to him and she never questions his police work, her burning questions about his past work have what it takes to make Gabe’s two world collide and unravel her life and family.
• Elizabeth Rider as Lady Justice Spencer
• Sunetra Sarker as Sadia Shar, a Pakistani national who poses as the mother of Raza and Nasir. Having overstayed her student visa by at least 16 years to raise the two following their mother's death, Sadia's threatened deportation is used against Raza to coerce him into becoming an informer.
• Paul Tylak as Hanif Shar, father of Raza and Nasir. His humorous personality and alcoholic tendencies mask the pain of his wife's death.
• Robert Whitelock as Officer Worrall
• Arsher Ali as Imran Aziz, an undercover police detective
• Stanley Townsend as Geoffrey Boyce as DCI Rose Asante's counterpart

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