The Ballad Of Renegade Nell/Season 1. Louisa Harland as Nell in The Ballad Of Renegade Nell. Cr. Robert Viglasky/Disney+ � 2022.
Disney+ has announced the upcoming UK fantasy series Renegade Nell, expected to start streaming in Spring 2024. The show runs eight episodes and is written and created by the BAFTA award willing writer Sally Wainright. The show follows Nell, who is described as “a quick-witted and courageous young woman who finds herself framed for murder and unexpectedly becomes the most notorious highwaywoman in 18th Century England.”
Nell is played by Louisa Harland from Derry Girls, along with Nick Mohammed from Ted Lasso who plays the role of a spirit named Billy Blind.
Here’s a sneak peak at some of the other cast members:
Frank Dillane (The Essex Serpent, Fear the Walking Dead) plays Nell’s fickle friend and sometime adversary Charles Devereux, a charming rogue with a dangerous, villainous alter ego. Adrian Lester (Trigger Point, Mary Queen of Scots) plays the Earl of Poynton, a master political schemer and manipulator who joins forces against Nell with Sofia Wilmot, played by Alice Kremelberg (The Sinner), a young widow who wants power and independence at any cost.
Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck) plays eccentric newspaper magnate Lady Eularia Moggerhanger, whilst Pip Torrens (The Crown, Poldark) appears as Lord Blancheford – the father of Sofia and her feckless, bullying brother Thomas, who is played by Jake Dunn (Half Bad). Ényì Okoronkwo (The Lazarus Project) also stars as Rasselas, a spirited stable boy who joins Nell and her sisters on the run in his own bid for freedom, with newcomers Bo Bragason and Florence Keen as Nell’s two younger sisters Roxy and George, and Craig Parkinson (Line of Duty, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) as Nell’s kind-hearted father Sam.
