It has been revealed by Deadline that Ben Barnes (Westworld, The Punisher) has signed on to star in BBC’s Gold Digger, his first BBC project in over a decade.
BBC’s Gold Digger is executive produced by Mainstreet’s Laura Mackie and Sally Haynes for Mainstreet Pictures, Elizabeth Kilgarriff for BBC One and Dickens.
He will be joining Julia Ormond (Witches of East End, Temple Grandin), who is set to portray Julia Day.
Barnes will be playing Benjamin Golding, a copyrighter in his 30s with a shrouded past who becomes involved with an older woman (Ormond).