Played with characteristic panache and passion by the actress Helen McCrory, Emma is a human rights lawyer whose speciality is defending lost causes.
That is also the credo adopted by Emma Banville, the central character in Fearless, ITV’s absorbing new six-part legal thriller.
Looking slim and a decade younger than her 48 years, McCrory is dressed in a brown silk shirt and black trousers.
Next up, McCrory is reprising her role as the steely Polly in Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight’s beautifully made BBC1 drama about the Shelby crime family in 1920’s Birmingham.