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July 29, 2013 / 11:10 AM

Maggie Gyllenhaal to star in Sundance thriller

Maggie Gyllenhaal arrives on the red carpet at the Premiere of 'White House Down' at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on June 25, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo

Maggie Gyllenhaal arrives on the red carpet at the Premiere of 'White House Down' at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on June 25, 2013. UPI/John Angelillo | License Photo

NEW YORK, July 29 (UPI) -- Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea and Janet McTeer are to star in "The Honorable Woman," an eight-part mini-series shooting in the United Kingdom and Morocco.

Sundance Channel said writer-director Hugo Blick began shooting the series Monday. Production is expected to last 18 weeks.

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The thriller will co-star Lubna Azbal, Eve Best, Lindsay Duncan, Andrew Buchan, Katherine Parkinson, Tobias Menzies, Genevieve O'Reilly and Igal Naor.

The series stars Rea as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle, "a top M16 spy on the verge of retirement, digging deep into Nessa Stein's family," the channel said, adding Gyllenhaal will play Nessa, the character to whom the title refers.

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