Sherlock's Lara Pulver is not known for her clothes, but this role should change that: her character Ann O'Neill wears spectacular gowns and beautiful clothes of the period.

Ann is married to Lord O'Neill, but while he serves in the military she is indulging in an affair with newspaper magnate Esmond Rothermere. When she meets Fleming, however, the pair are infatuated and become entangled in a twisted game of passions.

Samuel West plays Admiral John Godfrey, Fleming's boss in naval intelligence, and the man who inspired the character of 'M'.

Godfrey hires Fleming for his position in the Navy and while initially sceptical and cantankerous, he grows to admire Ian's ingenuity.

Peaky Blinders actress Annabelle Wallis plays Muriel Wright.

The very first incarnation of the Bond girl, Muriel is a beautiful dispatch courier who falls in love with Ian, and hopes, against the odds, that she can be the one to win his heart.

It's Duckface!

Hugh Grant's jilted paramour in Four Weddings And A Funeral and star of The Hour, the fabulous Anna Chancellor plays Second Officer Monday, a plucky secretary in naval intelligence.

She's the first to spot the potential in Fleming, in spite of his self-destructive tendencies, and they enjoy a largely platonic albeit mildly flirtatious relationship. Sound familiar?

Mike Leigh's muse Lesley Manville plays the magnificently named Evelyn St Croix Fleming, Ian's overbearing mother.

A known society beauty and a force of nature, she exuded all the power a woman in her position at that time had. Always championing Peter at Ian's expense, she has a very strained relationship with her son and intensely disapproves of his dalliance with Ann.

Pip Torrens plays Esmond Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail and Ann's lover.

They are open about their relationship, while Ann's husband is away fighting on the front line.

Rupert Evans plays Peter Fleming, Ian's older brother who, at the outset of war, was by far the more famous of the Fleming brothers, having written books about his travels in the 1930s.

He tries to help keep his sibling on the straight and narrow and can be a little unintentionally patronising at times. Already a successful author, he joins the army early in the war and sees the terrifying realities of battle first hand.

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Fleming

Season 1 (coming February 2014)

A no holds barred look at the man behind the James Bond legend, whose real life was as exciting, eventful and sexually charged.

  
Major Geoffrey Boothroyd (Q) and Ian Fleming's friend.  
Bond...James Bond with Iwan Morelius. James Bond 007 Museum Sweden Nybro