CRIME drama Innocent is set to return to our screens with a murder mystery to solve – and it's got an impressive cast.

But who stars in the four-part ITV drama for series two? We reveal all..

Who is in the cast?

The drama features some stellar telly stars…

Katherine Kelly as Sally Wright

Former Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly will play the lead role as Sally, who tries to get her life back after wrongly being convicted of murder. But although all charges were eventually dropped, the locals haven’t forgotten and she is shunned.

"She wants her life back. She wants to be back in the town that she was and integrated back into society," explains Katherine.

"I think of people that I know and how they put one foot in front of another after a deep trauma and things that you think, how would you ever get out of bed again?

"The way Sally was written rang true to me in that sense. But I felt like I hadn’t seen that kind of character as a leading lady on screen. That’s what made me want to play her."

Priyanga Burford as Karen Moss

Karen is loved up with Sally’s ex, who she now lives with alongside her daughter.

Priyanga, who starred in BBC drama Industry, revealed: "She’s come to this place looking for a new start and trying to have a good life. It’s all just slipping away from her and she can’t claw it back and it’s all breaking apart and it’s really difficult.

"She’s not a bad woman, she’s trying to make a good life for herself. She’s trying to deal with her difficult relationship with her teenage daughter."
She added: "She’s trying to build a life in a brand new place where she feels very much like the outsider. And then something happens and her world starts to fall apart and she is just not very good at dealing with it. She’s not Zen-like, she’s not emotionally wise or anything like that. She is side-swiped by it and I hope people will identify with that and see something truthful."

Amy-Leigh Hickman as Bethany

Amy will portray, Bethany, Karen’s daughter, and unsure about Sam becoming her stepdad.

Fans will have seen Amy in Channel 4 drama Ackley Bridge as Nasreen Paracha, and Mimi Saunders in the final series of Our Girl.

The 23-year-old also had a brief stint on EastEnders playing Linzi Bragg, and before that she burst on to the scene on CBBC's Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground as Carmen Howle.

Jamie Bamber as Sam Wright

Sam has moved on since his wife’s conviction and is set to marry Karen and take on the step father role to her daughter Bethany. But does Sally have other ideas?

Jamie says: "His world is going to be much more constraining because you’re suddenly having to deal with the fact that your personal choices are going to be public choices.

The Marcella star added: "Everyone’s going to know about them and your freedom is going to be limited in terms of who you can be open with."

Shaun Dooley as DCI Mike Braithwaite

It's A Sin and The Stranger star Shaun Dooley will star as DCI Mark Brathwaite who leads this team of officers in CID reinvestigating Matty’s murder after Sally's release.

Talking about his character, Shaun shared: "I’ve never seen a detective so obsessed with empathy in the way he goes about his investigation, the way he treats individuals and how he treats them differently in whatever situation and how he also understands what is within people and makes them capable of doing something.

"He never has an opinion on that, he just goes with empathy and morality and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

"I completely fell in love with him and also that he’s broken. I loved having to play somebody that instead of going back on a night to see this guy nursing a whisky and still thinking about the investigation, you went home to see a grieving, broken man who has to regalvanise himself back to being able to go back to work on that first day."

Who else is in the cast?

  • Lucy Black as Maria Taylor
  • Andrew Tiernan as John Taylor
  • Ellie Rawnsley as Anna Stamp
  • Janine Wood as Hollins
  • Laura Rollins as Paine
  • Michael Stevenson as Brown

When does Innocent series 2 start?

Innocent season two will begin on Monday, May 17, 2021 on ITV.

The psychological drama was re-commissioned in May 2019 and filming started in September 2020 at the Lake District and in Ireland.

Innocent will not follow on from the previous season as a whole new story-line has been developed by the show's creators.

But the premise of the hit show hasn't changed – it still features a character who has been released from prison early and must rebuild their life.

Unlike season one, though, viewers will not know if the lead character is guilty from the outset.

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