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‘Game of Thrones’ actress Natalie Dormer on playing the lead in local crime thriller

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Casting for a lead character is crucial, whether it is for a TV series or a movie. Of late, two offerings have looked abroad for a lead.

In Showmax’s Catch Me A Killer, British actress Charlotte Hope was cast to play Micki Pistorius, South Africa’s first serial killer profiler. Now, M-Net’s White Lies is led by Natalie Dormer, who is also from the UK.

Game of Thrones fans will recognise her as Margaery Tyrell. She was also in The Tudors, the last two films in the Hunger Games franchise, as well as the

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