The BBC has released the first publicity photos of Love/Hate star Ruth Negga as Shirley Bassey in the new drama Shirley.
The BBC Two film, which will be screened later this month, "charts Bassey's early career, from her humble roots in Wales in the Thirties to the start of her rise to international stardom in the Sixties" but "is no ordinary rags-to-riches story".
Joining Negga in the drama are Lesley Sharp (The Shadow Line, Scott & Bailey, Afterlife) as Eliza Bassey, Shirley's mother; Charlie Creed-Miles (Five Days, Injustice, King Arthur) as Mike Sullivan, her manager; and Henry Lloyd-Hughes (The Inbetweeners, The Milibands) as Kenneth Hume, her future personal manager and husband.
The BBC has yet to confirm a broadcast date and time, but Shirley will be screened as part of BBC Two's Mixed Race season in the TV week beginning Saturday September 24.
Love/Hate will return to RTÉ Television as part of the new season.
