Previously available on ITVX, espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends arrives on ITV1 as a weekly series. Based on true events in the 1950s, the six-part drama stars Damian Lewis as Nicholas Elliott, an MI6 intelligence officer, who’s suspected of helping his friend and colleague Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) to defect to Russia after working as a double agent for the KGB. Anna Maxwell Martin stars as MI5 agent Lily Thomas, who’s sent in to interrogate him. Here, the Line of Duty and Motherland star reveals more…
Tell us about your character, Lily…
She’s tenacious, clever and incredibly good at her job. She’s good at reading a situation and adapting and doing what she’s
