Georgian actor Merab Ninidze is set to join the cast for the seventh season of the hit British spy series Slow Horses.
The cast will also be expanded with the additions of Varada Sethu, Ethan Moorhouse, Tuppence Middleton, and Joshua McGuire. Series lead Gary Oldman and James Callis will reprise their roles.
Ninidze has already featured in the Slow Horses lineup, having voiced KGB General Vasily Rasnokov in season six. He is most likely set to return to this role.
Slow Horses is a British spy thriller series on Apple TV+ that has been running since 2022. The plot centers on MI5 intelligence officers relegated to the eponymous dumping-ground department after career-ending blunders.
Based on the novels by Mick Herron, the television project blends dark humor with political intrigue. It stars Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb and Jack Lowden as River Cartwright.
Merab Ninidze is a Georgian stage and screen actor. His career was launched with a masterpiece of Georgian cinema, Tengiz Abuladze’s Repentance, in which he played Tornike Aravidze, the son of the fictional dictator Varlam.
The actor also starred in Caroline Link’s Oscar-winning feature Nowhere in Africa and shared the screen with Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. He garnered international acclaim for his role in the BBC crime drama McMafia, where he played a member of the Russian mafia.