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'The Tourist' Cast and Character Guide: A Recap of Who's Who Before Season 2

Jamie Dornan leads the stellar cast of the hit BBC series.

A thought-provoking mystery akin to the likes of Christopher Nolan's Memento , The Tourist hit the BBC back in January 2022, with its critical and public acclaim across the pond soon translating into praise in the US following its debut on HBO Max. A whirlwind adventure that also showcases its gorgeous Australian backdrop, it came as no surprise to many when the series was picked up for a second outing . However, Max shockingly dropped the show from their catalog, with Netflix swooping in and saving the day, providing the upcoming second season with a rightful home. With that in mind, here is a look at some of the incredible cast of characters The Tourist has to offer.

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When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.

Jamie Dornan

The man/elliot stanley.

Known initially only as The Man, The Tourist begins with this mysterious stranger ominously waking up in an Australian hospital with a severe case of amnesia. Although it soon becomes clear his real name is Elliot Stanley, the gripping puzzle surrounding his identity creates the backbone of the show as Stanley's troubled Irish past swiftly begins to catch up with him. As the series continues, Dornan becomes a pensive, steadfast action hero, although, unlike a series such as Reacher , this masculine lead is allowed the time to be vulnerable, thrusting the classic male hero into a progressive 2024 role model. In Season 2, The Man has traveled back to his home country with filming in Dublin beginning in 2023 .

With a screen career that dates back to Sofia Coppola 's Marie Antoinette in 2006, Jamie Dornan 's rise to the top has been swift, with his portrayal of Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades franchise solidifying him as a household name. Among his high-profile career to date, Dornan has starred alongside Cillian Murphy in the World War Two spy thriller Anthropoid , portrayed the spiritual precursor to Ryan Gosling's Ken in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar , and acted opposite Gillian Anderson in the tense crime thriller The Fall . A captivating performer with an eye-catching range, Dornan is merely at the beginning of what looks to be an incredible career with many an iconic role still to come. Dornan discussed his time on the series and more in an interview with Collider's Christina Radish back in 2022.

Danielle McDonald

Helen chambers.

Helen's face is the first The Man sees following his sudden awakening, with that moment cementing her as a crucial component to the enigma's journey. At the bottom of the professional ladder, Helen Chambers will stop at nothing to prove she is an expert law enforcement officer, although sometimes her dedication to her job, and specifically the case involving The Man, puts her livelihood and her marriage in jeopardy, which eventually leads to a surprising and show-stealing romance with The Man.

With a career that has only spanned just over a decade to date, Danielle McDonald has already made a name for herself, with both the public and critics alike regularly praising her impressive range of performances. From her beginning on Glee in 2011 through to American Horror Story , McDonald has delighted on the small screen, but perhaps her film work in the likes of Bird Box and Patti Cake$ showcases the best of her talents. To find out more about the actress and her thoughts on playing Helen Chambers in The Tourist , check out her interview with Collider's Christina Radish .

Victoria Haralabidou

Lena pascal.

Lena's journey in The Tourist 's first season is as unique as they come, first appearing as a vision in the dreams (or nightmares) of The Man. As time goes by, these visions become stronger and more detailed, with the puzzle of Lena's identity slowly being pieced together. By season's end, it becomes clear that Lena marks the darkest secret from The Man's past, with Season 2 likely to involve The Man's attempts at redemption.

A star of both stage and screen, the Russian-born Victoria Haralabidou has impressed immensely across a 25-year-long acting career, with highlights including the likes of Brides , The Secrets She Keeps , and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart . In the near future, Haralabidou will be playing Jacinta Brightface in two episodes of Zombie Therapy .

Shalom Brune-Franklin

Luci miller.

Luci Miller's part in the plot of The Tourist 's first season is critical, with the waitress helping The Man piece together his past in the hope of protecting his future. However, Luci is hiding secrets of her own, with her growing bond with The Man soon seeming to have an ulterior motive. Sadly, Luci's involvement in the story is limited to just the first season, but her influence on the second season's plot shouldn't be underestimated.

A young actress with the world at her feet, Shalom Brune-Franklin , although she has a cameo role in Thor: Ragnarok , is best known for her work on television. Whether it's The Tourist , Doctor Doctor , Bad Mothers , or Line of Duty , Shalom never looks out of place alongside actors twice her age, with her future certainly looking bright.

Greg Larsen

Ethan Krum is the fiancée of Helen Chambers and symbolizes the familial cost of the young policewoman's dedication to her profession. A patient and kind man at heart, and never far from a moment of absurdist comic relief, watching Ethan slowly lose faith in the woman he loves is heartbreaking, with The Tourist 's dedication to showcasing both the mystery at its center and the ripple effects of such a tough task one of its best features. Interestingly, despite Helen and The Man now being a romantic item, Ethan is confirmed to appear in Season 2.

Perhaps the most experienced actor in The Tourist 's talented cast, Greg Larsen is a legendary Australian performer with a back catalog that includes the likes of Hug the Sun , How Not to Behave , and Young Rock .

The second season of The Tourist will officially premiere on February 29 on Netflix , with the trailer available to watch above. All episodes of The Tourist Season 1 are available to stream right now on Netflix.

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The Tourist: Cast, Plot, Release Date, and Everything Else We Know

The new trailer for HBO’s The Tourist offers a glimpse of its upcoming genre-bending show and a very lost and very amnesiac Jamie Dornan.

HBO Max just dropped the full trailer for their U.S. exclusive premiere of the BBC miniseries The Tourist , starring Jamie Dornan ( Belfast , A Private War ) as 'The Man' who, in the opening scene, runs off the road by a massive truck in the Australian wilderness. Following the accident, he wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of what happened before or who he is.

Throughout the series, he sets off on a journey to find out more about his identity and past and figure out why somebody wanted him dead and is still threatening his life. The trailer forecasts a stylish, harrowing ride with much unpredictability, numerous light-hearted moments, and action-packed sequences. Based on the first look, the show's tone gives Fargo vibes with a hint of classic McDonagh, while the visuals are more in the vein of True Detective . Even in this short clip, the makers did not shy away from directly referencing the Coen brothers .

Plot: What Can We Expect?

BBC describes the show by saying , " The Tourist is full of shocking, surprising, funny and brutal turns. The Tourist is set in a world populated by quirky, enigmatic characters, and off-beat comedy punctuates high-stakes action. At its heart, however, is a story of self-discovery with a ticking time bomb underneath: as The Man starts to uncover the mystery of who he was, he's also forced to ask who he is now – and fast. Will he unlock the secrets of his identity before those who are trying to kill him catch up with him?"

The Tourist is a genre-bending show combining mystery, action thriller, drama, and black comedy elements. The trailer looks somewhat dour and clunky in parts, but the creators stated several times that the show does not play things straight but peppers scenes with dry wit and pulse-pondering entertainment.

The trailer introduces a show with a fresh and vibrant tone, jokes elevated by much physical comedy, and awkward pauses. For fans of weird dark comedies , inappropriate humor, and twisted satires, The Tourist might turn out to be a true gem. Fingers crossed.

Cast and Crew

The six-episode limited series is co-produced by HBO Max, executive produced by Two Brothers Pictures' Christopher Aird, Andrew Benson, Tommy Bulfin (BBC), and Chris Sweeney ( Back to Life , Liar ). Sweeney is also set to direct with Daniel Nettheim ( Rush ). Harry and Jack Williams ( One of Us , Fleabag ) wrote the scripts while Lisa Scott is also serving as a producer.

The Tourist stars Jamie Dornan , Danielle Macdonald ( Dumplin , Paradise Hills ), Shalom Brune-Franklin ( Line of Duty , Road Kill ), Damon Herriman ( Mr. Inbetween , Once Upon A Time In Hollywood ), Alex Dimitriades ( Amazing Grace , The End ), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ( Lady Dynamite , Journey ), and Kamil Ellis ( Clever Man, Nowhere Boys ).

Related: True Blood Reboot Is Still Getting Fleshed Out Says HBO Boss In a recent interview with BFI, Dornan shared how it felt that the show's creators wanted him to play 'The Man' from the very beginning. Dornan says, "It's nice to hear them say that, and they told me that at some point, but you never really truly believe that sort of stuff you know the imposter syndrome is real, and you feel like if you've ended up there, you've ended up because a whole host of people have said that they don't want to do it."

Dornan instantly felt he was on a journey with the character, saying, "I think I was sent the first three scripts and after one probably I was like yes, this is just when you think you have a grasp of what's happening and what's going to happen next and why this person is where he is at this given point that's just turned on its head you know it is just you're pinballed around the place from beat one of the show until the end of six hours you know that's truly exciting and mad read. I didn't even know what happened in the end, and I'd already committed."

Dornan also told BFI he was excited by the many question marks regarding if 'The Man' was manipulated by other characters or if he was lying about what he knew and did not know. He said, "Getting to explore his own identity as it's given to him that's kind of rare and exciting, and it makes the process of taking on information, responding to it accordingly really fresh."

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The show was filmed in South Australia and Flinders Ranges Mountain in the spring and summer of 2021. The outback of Australia is a character in itself. The openness and remoteness of the landscape, just like rural environments in general, lends itself as a great backdrop for sinister, twisted dramas. Some people tend to believe they can get away with things in remote places, anyway.

Related: Six Feet Under Revival 'Dead' According to HBO Max Boss Dornan warns us, though, confusion and jarring sensations you get by watching the first episode only escalate during the rest of the show. He said, "The confusion you have at the end of the first episode that will just escalate and escalate and escalate. There is so much of 'hold on, I thought she was' and 'oh no,' there are loads of that. Just when you think you know what the crack is, something happens."

Dornan recounts shooting The Tourist as the toughest, longest, most physically most demanding projects of his entire career , but also fun, saying, "It was the hardest job I have ever done in my life, and it was the longest job I have ever done, and if you are going through something like that's so long and hard physically hard to shoot if you're not getting along with the people that you're spending time with all day every day it's going be the trickiest five months of your life. I got really lucky with those guys. They are just such a good bunch. My ethos going into everything is make the most of this, enjoy the days, enjoy the people, make friends, whatever happens after is totally out of your control."

The Tourist will debut on HBO Max on March 3, 2022.

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Jamie dornan in hbo max’s ‘the tourist’: tv review.

The actor plays an amnesiac in a deadly race to figure out his identity in this six-hour slice of Australian pulp fiction.

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Content bloat on cable and streaming is such an apparently incurable epidemic that even shows that play as lean and mean genre exercises are stuck oozing outside of their deserved boundaries — as if once there’s no marketplace for an idea to be conveyed at 90 minutes, might as well just go forever.

Something like Netflix’s True Story , which would have been an arthouse hit as a brisk John Dahl-directed theatrical thriller, instead became an instantly forgotten Netflix series, because that’s how it could get produced. Significantly better on every level, but still in need of a robust trim, is HBO Max ‘s The Tourist . Ideally, this would have been an Outback-set B-movie probably helmed by somebody like Phillip Noyce. Instead, it arrives on streaming as a six-hour drama replete with illogical misdirects, a second half that’s far less engaging than the first and a disappointing assortment of false conclusions.

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Airdate: Thursday, March 3 (HBO Max)

Cast: Jamie Dornan, Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Creators: Harry and Jack Williams

A story like this should be told without an ounce of fat. Yet even with its occasional excesses, The Tourist is a mostly taut, pretension-lite mystery with a vivid setting, a few surprises and a great trio of lead performances from Jamie Dornan , Danielle Macdonald and Shalom Brune-Franklin.

Created by Harry and Jack Williams and directed half by Chris Sweeney and half by Daniel Nettheim, The Tourist begins with what will prove to be its best set-piece, which isn’t always a great idea but in this case serves to get viewers well and truly hooked.

In a remote corner of rural Australia, a man (Dornan) with an Irish accent and no name stops for gas and a bathroom before resuming his drive. Before you can say “Hey, that’s the plot of Duel !” a truck emerges on the horizon, approaches the man’s car and tries to run it off the road. An intense pursuit ensues, all within the first 10 minutes, climaxing in the man waking up in a hospital with complete amnesia. Shot with acrid, epic scope by Ben Wheeler and edited without relief by Emma Oxley, it’s a sequence that is unique despite its familiar elements — one that’s so good that you probably won’t be offended by how little sense it makes once the show puts all of its cards on the table.

The Man doesn’t remember his name, his profession or why he was driving alone in a beat-up car on a stretch of road connecting nowhere to nowhere else, but his presence draws immediate attention. Offering benign curiosity is Probationary Constable Helen Chambers (Macdonald), trying to make a transition to legitimate policing after tiring of menial duties as a traffic cop. Offering more menacing curiosity is Billy Nixon (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), a hulking figure with a bushy beard, a rumbling voice, a questionable American accent and a blood-red cowboy hat. And it’s hard to read the intentions of diner waitress Luci (Brune-Franklin), who may be attracted to The Man because of his resemblance to Jamie Dornan, or else she has ulterior motives.

For the first few episodes, The Tourist is wonderfully spare. A couple of secondary characters pass in and out, but the story is mostly The Man, Helen, Luci and Billy, any one of whom could be a threat to the others. As the Williams brothers open the story up, it invariably becomes less interesting and more reliant on heaping doses of exposition. We meet characters including an odd detective played by Damon Herriman and some unsavory Greek gangsters. All of the characters are in the middle of their own identity crises, and while The Man is the only one who literally doesn’t know who he is, each person here is pondering existential questions about whether people can change; whether that change is a matter of personal choice; and whether it’s as simple as forging a passport or moving to a new country or making up different origin stories involving your mother or father.

From the too-clever-by-half backwards storytelling of Rellik to the structural mendacity of Liar , the Williams brothers are good at high-concept thrillers driven by tricky plot mechanics, and this fits that category more than other Two Brothers Pictures creations like the tormented The Missing . The more gaps in The Man’s story they expose, the more interesting The Tourist is; the more those gaps get filled in, the less interesting the resulting shape of the puzzle feels.

None of the answers is exactly infuriating and some of them play very well in the moment — the fifth episode is a straight-up backstory dump, but the creators find a way to make it amusing — but the more distance you get from the full story, the more you may find that very little holds together. It’s possible to concentrate on the occasional shootouts, a flimsy-but-taut storyline lifted from the Ryan Reynolds movie Buried and one stunning outback vista after another, and still be limitedly bothered by lapses in common sense.

It helps that this is probably the funniest of the Williams brothers thrillers, a reminder that as producers their credits also include the very fine Back to Life and the spectacular Fleabag . If you think the plot strains credulity, so do many of the characters, and there are crackling exchanges of dialogue, silly pieces of flirtation and enough quirky and outsized figures to make it clear that if Duel was the series’ table-setting inspiration, most of what follows is basically Fargo with a greater risk of kangaroos.

Dornan is probably too hunky to be inherently ideal as the Hitchcockian Everyman, but The Man is a savvy encapsulation of Dornan’s varied skills, especially those he’s been showcasing in his projects from the past year-ish. He has compelling chemistry with both Macdonald and Brune-Franklin, he’s generally convincing as a sturdy action lead and he has an underlying menace that lets you wonder if the man that The Man used to be might not be so virtuous. Best of all — and this will not shock the Barb and Star hive — Dornan is an adroit comic performer, whether it’s expressing Irish-accented confusion about a fluffy stuffed koala or any of the bickering that characterizes The Man’s relationships with Helen and Luci. He weathers all of the reveals about his character, up to the finale’s conclusive twists. It’s just a darned good performance in a show that hinges on its lead.

Macdonald is, at some points, nearly a co-lead and the Patti Cake$ star brings nervous humor and the real emotional hook to the story, maintaining the character’s integrity in the face of a sometimes sweet, mostly unappealing engagement to Greg Larsen’s brutally passive-aggressive Ethan. I wish somebody had written more actual traits for Brune-Franklin’s Luci, but the simmering interactions with Dornan keep the show going through its slower parts. Herriman’s guessing-game strangeness and Ólafsson’s garrulous intimidation are responsible for the show’s most Coen Brothers-y elements.

At six hours, The Tourist ‘s focus wavers, but its momentum remains solid; in a spring of self-important ripped-from-headlines TV storytelling, I appreciated its pulpy drive. And that “Shouldn’t this be a couple of hours shorter?” sensation? Well, I guess that’s just a permanent condition.

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The Tourist review – Jamie Dornan is intense in explosively entertaining outback thriller

An Irishman wakes up in Australia with amnesia in this pulse-pounding series packed with humour and philosophical questions

F anging it down an outback road when he is rammed by a truck driver from hell, Jamie Dornan experiences a terrible accident that gives him amnesia – making him forget about all that bondage paraphernalia from Fifty Shades of Grey .

In the explosively entertaining six-part series The Tourist, created and written by Harry and Jack Williams, the Irish actor and former Hugo Boss and Calvin Klein studmuffin plays a louche loner who can’t remember who is he, what he is doing in Australia or why he appears to have “kill me” stamped figuratively speaking across his forehead.

Dornan joins a coterie of famous foreign actors who have been plonked in the thick of arid, unforgiving Australian land and left to fry in the sun for our dramatic amusement. See also: Gary Bond in Wake in Fright , who drank a lot of beer and went mad; Dennis Hopper in Mad Dog Morgan , who drank a lot of moonshine and went mad; Johnathon Schaech in Welcome to Woop Woop , who spent a lot of time with the locals and went mad; and soon to be Zac Efron in Gold, who, the trailer suggests, finds gold in them thar desert and then goes mad.

Come to think of it, Dornan’s character in The Tourist – billed as “The Man” – is pretty sane compared with these rather rabid fellows. He’s like Guy Pearce in Memento in that he’s determined but displaced (in this instance geographically as well as mentally) and constantly banging against the walls of his own mind. If the whole being rammed into near-oblivion wasn’t enough, “The Man” is also a mite concerned when, after meeting the friendly and charming Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) at a diner, there appears to be another (rather spectacular) attempt on his life.

The show’s central mystery has something to do with a man who has been buried alive and calls “The Man” from inside a barrel, begging to be found post-haste. Director Chris Sweeney (who helmed episodes one to three, with Daniel Nettheim steering the others) shoves a camera inside a tight coffin-esque space, evoking memories of Ryan Reynolds in Buried.

A big, beefy, cowboy shirt-wearing villain emerges in Billy (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), who whistles cheerfully but with absolute menace, his merry tune a harbinger of impending doom. In the series’ second half, Alex Dimitriades emerges as another prominent bad guy, hamming it up in super-villain style.

Certain characters aren’t who they say they are, though that does not apply to Helen Chambers – a fair dinkum what-you-see-is-what-you-get probationary constable battling with low self-esteem. She is superbly portrayed by Danielle Macdonald (who played the gossip columnist Lillian Roxon in I am Woman ), bringing loads of colour and detail to what could have been the simple sweet hick. Macdonald’s performance vividly contrasts with the rough and tough Dornan – also perfect in a high-intensity role as a man who is something of a blank slate, frightened by who he is or who he may be. There are philosophical questions about identity to ponder – if viewers pause for a breather and stop chewing their nails – including to what extent each of us are defined by our past actions.

There’s also an oddly good performance from the ever-reliable Damon Herriman, offsetting his recent menacing work by playing a detective inspector in a way that’s both funny weird and funny ha-ha, suiting the show’s quite dry approach to comedy. Many scenes are humorous in a cagey way, sans explicit signposting: at one point for instance we discover a traffic pile-up has been created by two turtles rooting in the middle of the road. Elsewhere, in the aftermath of an intense confrontation, in a shot one could imagine belonging to a Coen brothers movie, the show cuts to a framed picture on a wall bearing the following message: “LIFE IS MADE OF CHOICES. WIPE YOUR FEET OR SCRUB THE FLOOR.”

The Tourist is very well shot by Ben Wheeler and Geoffrey Hall (who was also the cinematographer for Chopper , Red Dog: True Blue and Eden ), with colour grading that’s a little off, a little sickly, as if the blues and greens (hard to find in arid outback) in particular have been poisoned from the inside. This is a clever way of visualising the feeling that something isn’t quite right. Sweeney and Nettheim (whose directorial work includes episodes of Halifax: Retribution , Tidelands and Line of Duty) establish a cracker pace that creeps, creeps, creeps up on you, then explodes with a great big thunderclap of action then creeps, creeps, creeps up again.

The “bugger me dead, it’s hot!” action-thriller, as it shall henceforth be known, is by now very familiar, but The Tourist is different: a pulse-pounder that feels fresh despite many genre elements, particularly of the neo-noir variety. The show has a great forwards and backwards momentum, contrasting cliffhanger moments with questions about the past and the ambiguities therein. It’s a vision of Australiana that’s less “ where the bloody hell are you? ” than who the bloody hell are you, and what the bloody hell will happen next? And – summarising my personal response – bloody hell, this is good.

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Here’s your first look at 50 Shades Of Grey star Jamie Dornan in The Tourist , the mystery thriller limited series from  Fleabag  production company Two Brothers Pictures .

The story centers on a British man (Dornan) who finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback, being pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat-and-mouse chase unfolds, and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.

Other cast includes Danielle Macdonald ( Dumplin’ ), Shalom Brune-Franklin ( Line of Duty ), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ( Trapped ), and Alex Dimitriades ( The End ). Hugo Weaving ( The Lord of The Rings ) has exited the series, however, due to a scheduling issue. He has been replaced by Damon Herriman ( Mindhunter ).

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The Tourist is a Two Brothers Pictures production for the BBC , in association with Highview Productions, All3Media International, the South Australian Film Corporation, HBO Max, Stan, and ZDF. The six-episode drama has been written by producers and screenwriters Harry and Jack Williams, who alongside Christopher Aird and Andrew Benson will serve as executive producers for Two Brothers Pictures and Tommy Bulfin for the BBC. Lisa Scott produces and Chris Sweeney executive produces and directs. International sales are handled by All3Media International.

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Set in the vast and unforgiving Australian outback, this twisty cat-and-mouse crime thriller begins with a massive tractor truck trying to run a British man off the road. Awakening later in a nearby hospital - hurt but alive - The Man has no memory of who he is, what he’s done… or why he’s in Australia. With the help of rookie cop Helen Chambers and local waitress Luci, The Man’s search for his identity propels him on an epic quest - as merciless figures from his past relentlessly hunt him down.

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Here's Everything You've Seen Featuring The Cast Of HBO's "The Tourist"

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If you're looking for a new mystery miniseries, you're in luck.

Originally airing on BBC One, The Tourist made its way to HBO Max on March 1, with a cast made up of Fifty Shades of Grey 's Jamie Dornan , Danielle Macdonald , Shalom Brune-Franklin and more.

The story follows a man who suffers memory loss after a car crash in Australia, but there's a lot more to unpack than what appears at the surface.

If you're curious about the TV shows and movies the actors appeared in ahead of The Tourist , I've got you covered. Take a look:

To start, jamie dornan plays the man.

Best-known for: Playing Christian Grey in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise

Where else you've seen him: Synchronic , Robin Hood , The Fall , New Worlds , Once Upon a Time and Marie Antoinette

Danielle Macdonald plays Helen Chambers

Best-known for:  Playing Willowdean in Dumplin'

Where else you've seen her: Unbelievable , French Exit , Falling for Figaro , I Am Woman , Easy , Bird Box , Lady Bird and Toolies

Shalom Brune-Franklin plays Luci

Best-known for: Playing Maisie Richards in Our Girl

Where else you've seen her: Love Me , War of the Worlds , Line of Duty , Roadkill , Cursed , Bad Mothers and Doctor Doctor

Damon Herriman plays Detective Inspector Lachlan Rogers

Best-known for: Playing Dewey Crowe in Justified

Where else you've seen him: Ultra City Smiths , Mr Inbetween , Mortal Kombat , Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway , Mindhunter , Perpetual Grace, LTD , Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood , Incorporated and Quarry

Alex Dimitriades plays Kostas

Best-known for: Playing Nick Polides in The Heartbreak Kid

Where else you've seen him: Total Control , Amazing Grace , The End , Tidelands , Seven Types of Ambiguity , The Slap , Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and Ghost Ship

And finally, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson plays Billy

Best-known for: Playing Andri Ólafsson in Trapped

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Jamie Dornan has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming limited series “The Tourist.” In addition, HBO Max has boarded the project and will co-produce along with Two Brothers Pictures as well as serve as the show’s streaming home in the U.S.

Alongside Dornan, the six-episode series will star Danielle Macdonald, Shalom Brune-Franklin, and Hugo Weaving . Filming is set to begin soon in Australia. The show was commissioned last year by BBC One, Stan, and ZDF. It hails from writers Harry and Jack Williams.

“Harry and Jack’s talents are as vast as the Australian outback, and this thriller will leave viewers on the edge of their seat piecing together the puzzle,” said Jeniffer Kim, senior vice president of international originals at HBO Max. “We are delighted to have Jamie, Danielle, Hugo and Shalom join the cast for this compelling addition to our slate of international original series.”

Dornan stars as a British man who finds himself in the glowing red heart of the Australian outback being pursued by a vast tank truck trying to drive him off the road. An epic cat and mouse chase unfolds and the man later wakes in hospital, hurt, but somehow alive. Except he has no idea who he is. With merciless figures from his past pursuing him, The Man’s search for answers propels him through the vast and unforgiving outback.

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Macdonald will star as Helen Chambers, a fledgling Probationary Constable, and Brune-Franklin is set to play Luci, a waitress who’s swept into The Man’s journey for answers. Weaving plays Agent Lachlan Rogers, one of the most highly regarded detective inspectors in Australia, leading Major Crime for the state police.

“We’re hugely excited about this show. It’s tonally breaking new ground for us and having Jamie Dornan on board is the icing on the Australian cake. Thrilled to be working with Chris Sweeney again as well as the BBC, HBO Max and Stan,” said Harry and Jack Williams, writers and managing directors of Two Brothers Pictures.

“The Tourist” is a Two Brothers Pictures (an All3Media company) production for the BBC, in association with Highview Productions, All3Media International, the South Australian Film Corporation, HBO Max, Stan and ZDF.

The Williams brothers will executive produce along with Christopher Aird and Andrew Benson of Two Brothers Pictures. Tommy Bulfin executive produces for the BBC. Lisa Scott will produce and Chris Sweeney will executive produce and direct. International sales will be handled by global partner All3Media International.

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HBO Max continues stealth drops of some of the best drama mini-series on television. Last year highlights included “The Head” and “ Station Eleven ,” and they start 2022 strongly with the fantastic “The Tourist,” a twisty tale that plays like an Aussie version of “ Fargo .” With sharp dialogue, clever plotting, and career-best work from Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald , this is a great little thriller, a show that constantly keeps you guessing and entertained in equal measure.

The “ Belfast ” and “ Fifty Shades of Grey ” star plays an unnamed man (at least for a while) who is driving through the very remote Australian outback. He stops at a station to use the bathroom, banters with the guy behind the counter, and hits the road again. Looking in the rearview mirror, he sees a truck gaining on him with remarkable speed. The Man twists off the road to avoid it and the trucker follows, revealing through a POV from his cab that this is very intentional—he’s trying to kill this tourist. They race through the desert until The Man’s car crashes. He wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

Enter a small-town officer named Helen Chambers (Macdonald), engaged to an awful man named Ethan ( Greg Larsen ) and thrust into a mystery about who this handsome Irishman is in a hospital bed. When The Man finds a note with a time and a location in his pocket, he heads to a small town called Burnt Ridge, where he meets a woman named Luci ( Shalom Brune-Franklin ) who might know about his past, ends up crossing paths with a sociopath ( Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ) who clearly wants him dead, and gets a phone call from a man who’s been buried underground. And then things get even weirder.

Created by the people behind the excellent “ The Missing ” (which aired stateside on Starz), the writing on “The Tourist” is a metronomic back and forth between reveals and how those reveals propel the narrative in a new direction. Pushing their way through all the chaos are Dornan and Macdonald, both phenomenal. Dornan finds a quirky, unsettled way to play a man who doesn’t know who he is without resorting to the cliché of the lost soul. If anything, he leans into more of a blank slate interpretation of amnesia, playing a guy who’s more open to what comes next because he can’t remember what came before. And Macdonald is charming and so incredibly likable that she becomes the heart of a show that can be cold at times.

Echoes of “ Memento ” and “Fargo” aside, “The Tourist” also has its own quirky personality. Some of those quirks get a bit extreme in late-season episodes in ways I can’t spoil, but the show is never boring. It’s a reminder that the Dornan who was so great in “ The Fall ” is still out there, and I hope it leads him to more bizarre, challenging roles like this one. There’s an argument to be made that there’s an even-better 100-minute movie in this six-episode mini-series, but that’s not the world we’re in right now. A story like this has a better chance to be told in the TV system than the mid-budget film one, and the writers don’t drag their feet or spin their wheels like so many streaming thrillers. They’re constantly moving our hero forward, keeping us uncertain about his past and even his moral center.

Some will argue that “The Tourist” gets too convoluted and I’ll admit that I enjoyed the playful uncertainty of the first half of the season more than the intensity of the second half. Although the show does get deeper in how it unpacks lies we tell ourselves and those we listen to from other people. It turns out that everyone on "The Tourist" has a secret or two, and almost all of them could use a car accident to reset the hole they've dug for themselves. 

I'm not sure how intentional it is but the show never stopped reminding me of some of my favorite early Coen films—the noir danger of “ Blood Simple ,” the open roads of “ Raising Arizona ” (and a bearded hunter who seems unkillable), Macdonald’s very Marge Gunderson character—and yet these nods to greats are embedded in a breakneck plot that never slows down enough to distract from its own inspired storytelling. Take the trip.

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“The Tourist” premieres on HBO Max on Thursday, March 3. with the first episode of the mini-series being released at 3 a.m. ET (midnight PT).

“After being run off the road, a man wakes up in an Australian hospital with amnesia,” reads HBO Max’s description of the series. Throughout “The Tourist,” the man tries to discover who he is, where he was driving to and why there is someone out there who wants him dead.

The cast includes Jamie Dornan as The Man (Elliot Stanley); Danielle Macdonald as Probationary Constable Helen Chambers; Shalom Brune-Franklin as Victoria “Luci” Miller; Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Billy Nixon; Alex Dimitriades as Kosta Panigiris; Genevieve Lemon as Sue; Danny Adcock as Ralph; Damon Herriman as Detective Inspector Lachlan Rogers and Alex Andreas as Dimitri Panigiris.

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The Tourist season 2: US release date, cast, plot and more

The Tourist season 2 sees Jamie Dornan return as Elliot as the story comes to Ireland.

Jamie Dornan fans will be delighted that The Tourist season 2 is finally here, with the whole series now available to watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK and Netflix in the US. 

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With the action switching from Australia's Outback to Ireland, the landscape looks very different from when we last saw Elliot. But whether he's running away from some mysterious pursuers or covered in blood, his situation doesn't seem to have improved too much!  

Teasing the new series, Jamie says: "For the second series we pick up with Elliot in Ireland where he tries to discover his real family and get some answers on who he is. Whilst Elliot is in Ireland, he also gets caught up in all kinds of craziness with people trying to kill him."

He adds: "Family is a big theme in this series. We're dealing with a guy who has no concept of who he is, and you can only imagine how terrifying that is, but little by little there are these kernels of information revealed to him and he starts to piece his history together and his family history. It's not that pretty, but it's vital and it's a big part of our story."

Screenwriters Jack and Harry Williams — whose previous screenwriting hits include The Missing and One of Us — have penned the scripts of the follow-up series.

The Tourist season 1 was a big hit when it launched on BBC One and the iPlayer last January, with 12 million people watching it in the first 30 days it was available online. It then went on to have similar success on HBO for US fans. Here's everything we know about season 2...

The Tourist season 2 release date

The Tourist season 2 premiered on BBC One on Monday 1 January 2024 at 9 pm. The second episode follows on Tuesday 2 January on BBC One at 9 pm. Subsequent episodes air on consecutive Sundays throughout January. The whole series is available now as a box set on BBC iPlayer. 

The Tourist season 1 was broadcast on HBO Max in the United States, but it has moved to Netflix for the second season, with all the episodes available to stream from 29 February 2024. 

The Tourist season 2 plot

The first series started with "The Man" — whose name was revealed to be Elliot — waking up in Australia with total amnesia before he and Constable Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald) became embroiled in a cat-and-mouse game with mysterious figures chasing them across Australia. 

The new series sees Helen accompanying Elliot back to Ireland as he tries to rediscover his roots, where they soon find themselves dragged into the dangerous whirlwind of his past life. An official synopsis reads...

"After their adventure in the Australian Outback, The Tourist’s epic second series follows Dornan and Macdonald’s characters Elliot and Helen as they travel to Ireland together. 

"In an attempt to rediscover Elliot’s roots following his memory loss, they’re dragged into the dangerous whirlwind of his past life and are confronted by friends and foes both old and new, including Niamh Cassidy (Olwen Fouéré) and the McDonnell family – Donal (Diarmaid Murtagh), Orla (Nessa Matthews), Fergal (Mark McKenna), and Frank (Francis Magee). 

"Detective Ruairi Slater (Conor MacNeill) becomes embroiled in the crossfire between the McDonnells and the Cassidys as the secrets of the family rivalry unravel."

The Tourist season 2 cast

Jamie Dornan ( Fifty Shades of Grey, Belfast ) is back as Elliot, while Australian actress Danielle Macdonald ( Bird Box ) again plays former Constable Helen Chambers.

Joining them for the second series are Conor MacNeill  (Industry, The Fall) , Olwen Fouéré  (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Northman),  Francis Magee  (Justice League, Then You Run) , Mark McKenna  (Sing Street, One of Us is Lying) , Diarmaid Murtagh  (Vikings, Outlander),  and Nessa Matthews  (Neon, HEN) . 

Series two also sees Greg Larsen reprise his role as Ethan Krum.

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Fans of The White Lotus , the popular HBO anthology miniseries, have speculated since early last year that the third season will likely be set in Thailand, but no one knew exactly where it would be filmed.

Now, with production having begun earlier this spring, the shoot locations in Thailand have been revealed. Filming is taking place in the capital city of Bangkok and on the islands of Phuket and Ko Samui, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and HBO revealed in February.

“We are pleased to partner with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to execute Mike’s creative vision and showcase all that the beautiful country of Thailand has to offer, as the next group of guests check in to The White Lotus ,” Janet Graham Borba, executive vice president of production for HBO & Max, said in the statement.

Given that the last two seasons were filmed at Four Seasons hotels, many expected this season to be filmed at a Four Seasons as well—and they were right. Thai tourism authorities have recently confirmed that season three is being filmed at Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui , set among the rolling, lush hills of the island of Koh Samui. Accommodations at this ultra-luxurious property range from villas with their own private pools to multi-bedroom sprawling residences where families and groups can spread out.

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Created by Mike White, who also serves as executive producer and director, The White Lotus is a satire-cum-dramedy set in the fictional and luxurious White Lotus resort in popular tourist destinations. There, dysfunctional guests and hotel staff reveal new sides of themselves, all the while skewering insensitive tourists. Season 1, which debuted in 2021, was set in Hawai’i and filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea , while the second season, which was released at the end of 2022, was set in Sicily , this time filming at San Domenico Palace, Taormina, a Four Seasons Hotel .

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The Despicable Me cast is full of A-list stars playing its lovable animated characters. The movie revolves around a supervillain named Gru, who adopts three girls in a bid to steal the Moon and ends up feeling more fulfilled by fatherhood than evildoing. Despicable Me was a big enough hit to launch a blockbuster franchise. Gru became an endearing character that fans would follow in multiple sequels, and the Minions, introduced in the first of the Despicable Me movies , have become a cultural sensation, headlining their own spinoff movies. Those now-classic characters were brought to life by a fantastic cast of voice actors.

Despicable Me was the first feature-length production mounted by Illumination Entertainment, the animation studio that went on to spearhead the Sing and Secret Life of Pets franchises. It was an immediate hit with both critics and audiences, putting Illumination on the map alongside Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. Part of what attracted audiences to the original movie was its star-studded voice cast. Here's a guide to those actors and which characters they play in Despicable Me .

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Steve Carell As Gru

Gru, the supervillain who wants to steal the Moon in Despicable Me , is voiced by Steve Carell. The actor best known for playing the highly quotable Michael Scott on The Office got his break as a movie star with the titular role of Andy Stitzer in The 40-Year-Old Virgin . He also played Brick Tamland in the Anchorman movies and the title roles in Evan Almighty and Get Smart . Carell delivered dramatic performances in Little Miss Sunshine , The Big Short , and Beautiful Boy and earned an Oscar nomination for portraying murderer John Eleuthère du Pont in Foxcatcher . He returned to TV to play disgraced anchor Mitch Kessler in The Morning Show .

Miranda Cosgrove As Margo

Miranda Cosgrove lends her voice to the Despicable Me cast as Margo, the oldest and most responsible of Gru’s adopted daughters. Cosgrove made her acting debut as band manager and class factotum Summer Hathaway opposite Jack Black in School of Rock . She became a globally recognized star with her Nickelodeon roles as Megan Parker in Drake & Josh and Carly Shay in iCarly . As a singer and songwriter, Cosgrove released the albums Sparks Fly and High Maintenance , plus the iCarly soundtrack, which marked her first foray into music.

Jason Segel As Vector

Vector, a long-time rival of Gru who successfully stole the Great Pyramid of Giza, is played by Jason Segel. The actor is best known for playing Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother and Nick Andopolis among the cast of Freaks and Geeks . He wrote and starred in the acclaimed rom-com Forgetting Sarah Marshall , which led to lead roles in I Love You, Man and Bad Teacher . Segel worked on more scripts for himself to star in, like The Muppets and The Five-Year Engagement , and earned widespread acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his portrayal of author David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour .

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Russell Brand As Dr. Nefario

Russell Brand’s voice can be heard in the Despicable Me cast in the role of Gru’s elderly assistant, Dr. Nefario. Brand previously played rock star Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and its Aldous-focused spinoff, Get Him to the Greek . He also played Lonny Barnett in Rock of Ages , Linus Windlesham in Death on the Nile , and the title character in the 2011 remake of Arthur . As a voice actor, he played the Easter Bunny’s son who wants to be a drummer in Hop . As a standup comedian, Brand rose to prominence with his 2013 special Messiah Complex and has won three British Comedy Awards.

Kristen Wiig As Miss Hattie

Miss Hattie, the owner of the orphanage where Gru adopts the girls, is voiced by Kristen Wiig. The actress went on to play Gru’s love interest, Agent Lucy Wilde, in the sequels to Despicable Me . Wiig rose to fame as a Saturday Night Live cast member from 2005 to 2012. She became a household name by starring in Bridesmaids and co-writing its Oscar-nominated original screenplay with Annie Mumolo. Wiig has since played Dr. Erin Gilbert in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot and the villainous Barbara Ann Minerva in the superhero sequel Wonder Woman 1984 . Her voice can also be heard as Ruffnut Thorston in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise.

Will Arnett As Mr. Perkins

Will Arnett lends his voice to the Despicable Me cast in the part of Mr. Perkins, the president of the Bank of Evil, where supervillains take out loans to fund their diabolical schemes. Arnett’s distinctive voice is recognizable as the eponymous equine sitcom has-been in BoJack Horseman and as Batman in the Lego Movie franchise. In live-action projects, Arnett is known for playing wannabe magician Gob Bluth in Arrested Development , competitive ice skater Stranz van Waldenberg in Blades of Glory , and the recurring role of Jack Donaghy’s business rival Devon Banks in 30 Rock . He also hosts the competition show Lego Masters .

Julie Andrews As Gru’s Mom

Gru’s mother is voiced by Julie Andrews, one of the biggest stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Andrews has been lauded by the Kennedy Center Honors and with the AFI Life Achievement Award, and she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II. She’s a three-time Best Actress nominee who won the Academy Award for her performance as the title character in Mary Poppins . Andrews also played Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music and starred as Sarah Sherman alongside Paul Newman’s Professor Michael Armstrong in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Torn Curtain . She scored a career revival after playing Clarisse Renaldi in the Princess Diaries franchise.

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Dana Gaier as Edith: The voice of Dana Gaier can be heard in the Despicable Me cast in the role of Edith, one of Gru’s adopted daughters. Gaier also played Brie in the psychological thriller The Ice Cream Truck .

Elsie Fisher as Agnes: Gru’s other adopted daughter, Agnes, is voiced by Elsie Fisher. The actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her lead turn as Kayla in Bo Burnham’s debut feature, Eighth Grade , and also played Katie in Barry season 3 and Lila in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot. Though she reprised the role in Despicable Me 2 , she did not return to voice Agnes in Despicable Me 3 .

Pierre Coffin as the Minions: Gru’s iconic henchmen, the Minions, are voiced by Pierre Coffin, the co-director of Despicable Me . Coffin continued to play the Minions in sequels and spinoffs when they became an unexpected cultural phenomenon. He previously created the animated series Pat & Stan .

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Chris Renaud as Dave the Minion: The other director of Despicable Me , Chris Renaud, plays a Minion named Dave. Renaud received an Academy Award nomination for his Ice Age short, No Time for Nuts , featuring Scrat. He also directed the feature-length adaptation of The Lorax and both Secret Life of Pets movies.

Jemaine Clement as Jerry the Minion: Jemaine Clement cameos in the Despicable Me cast as a different Minion named Jerry. Clement is best known as half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords with Bret McKenzie. As an actor, he played Boris the Animal in Men in Black 3 , Dr. Ian Garvin in Avatar: The Way of Water , and the vampire Vladislav in the movie version of What We Do in the Shadows , which he also co-directed and co-wrote with Taika Waititi.

Danny McBride as Fred McDade: Danny McBride lends his voice to the Despicable Me cast as Gru’s next-door neighbor, Fred McDade. McBride co-created and starred in the HBO series Eastbound & Down , Vice Principals , and The Righteous Gemstones . He also played Rico Brown in Hot Rod , Cody Underwood in Tropic Thunder , and an exaggerated version of himself in This is the End , and he voiced Rick Mitchell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines .

Jack McBrayer as a carnival barker and a tourist dad: Jack McBrayer has two minor credits in the Despicable Me cast as a carnival barker and a tourist dad. McBrayer is best known as Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock and Fix-It Felix from Disney's animated Wreck-It Ralph franchise.

Mindy Kaling as a tourist mom: The tourist mom opposite McBrayer’s tourist dad is voiced by Mindy Kaling, who rose to prominence as a writer and cast member on The Office in the role of Kelly Kapoor. She also created The Mindy Project and starred on the show as Dr. Mindy Lahiri. Kaling’s voice is known as Disgust from Pixar’s Inside Out and the title character in Velma .

Ken Jeong as a talk show host: Ken Jeong has a cameo role as a talk show host in Despicable Me . Jeong is best known for playing Leslie Chow in the Hangover trilogy, Ben Chang on Community , and Ken Park on Dr. Ken , which he also created. Jeong is also a panelist on The Masked Singer and released his first comedy special, You Complete Me, Ho , on Netflix in 2019.

Rob Huebel as a news anchor: A news anchor who appears briefly in Despicable Me is played by Rob Huebel. The actor is best known as Russell on The League , Len Novak on Transparent , Tevin Downey in I Love You, Man , and Holly’s boyfriend A.J. on The Office .

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