1st look at Oscar-nommed Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Honourable Woman"

PanARMENIAN.Net - Production is under way on Sundance Channel's upcoming original miniseries The Honourable Woman, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Hollywood Reporter said.

In the eight-part drama, the Academy Award nominee (Crazy Heart) makes her largest TV commitment to date starring as Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

Filming in the U.K. and Morocco, the series includes Stephen Rea as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle, spy digging deep into Nessa Stein's family, his bitter ex-wife Anjelica (Lindsay Duncan,The Hollow Crown); Oscar and Tony nominee Janet McTeer (Damages) as the head of MI6; Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch) as Nessa's brother Ephra and Katherine Parkinson (Sherlock) as his pregnant wife Rachel. Nurse Jackie's Eve Best, Lubna Azbal (Body of Lies), Tobias Menzies (Game of Thrones), Genevieve O’Reilly (Episodes), Igal Naor (House of Saddam) co-star in the series, which boasts a cast of nearly 100.

BAFTA winner Hugo Blick (The Shadow Line) will pen the script, direct and executive produce alongside Drama Republic's Greg Brenman (Billy Elliot).

The Honourable Woman will be set in the U.K., Middle East and America and will film on location starting in July. It will air in the U.S. and BBC Two in the U.K. in 2014.