Downton Abbey actor Allen Leech has been cast opposite Chicago PD star Sophia Bush in the pilot episode of the new US thriller series Surveillance.
US entertainment industry website Deadline reports that Surveillance tells the story of Maddy (Bush), the Head of Communications for the National Security Agency who is torn between protecting her country's secrets and her own.
Dublin actor Leech will play Maddy's husband Mike, a former CIA agent, with the cast also including The Affair's Catalina Sandino Moreno, Stranger Things' Matthew Modine and 24: Legacy's Raphael Acloque.
Leech can currently be seen on cinema screens in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. The Downton Abbey film is due in cinemas next September.
