Gavin & Stacey Star Among New Additions To Line Of Duty Season 7 Cast

Line Of Duty bosses have announced more information about the new and returning cast members appearing in the BBC police drama’s long-awaited seventh season.

Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar will all be reprising their roles in the new run of episodes, which are due to air next year, with Bafta winner Robert Carlyle announcing last month that he’s also set to play a new character.

On Wednesday morning, more casting information was revealed, and there’ll be some familiar faces returning alongside some new additions.

These newbies will include  Tom Weston-Jones, who has previously appeared in Sanditon, Warrior and Copper, as well as Laura Aikman, perhaps best known to Gavin & Stacey fans as Smithy’s girlfriend Sonia in the two most recent stand-alone specials.

In a press release, Tom’s character is described as the leader of Tactical Operations Unit 7 (TO-7), a “charismatic officer who has won plaudits for a string of takedowns of organised crime”, who is “accused of abusing his position of trust to act as a sexual predator”, while Laura will play a new police officer, Paula Beckman.

Also joining the cast are David Calder, Levi Brown and Amy Leigh Hickman, while Mark Bonnar,  Owen Teale,  Perry Fitzpatrick and Christina Chong are all set to return.

Further new cast members include Steven Elder, Dominic Mafham , Sarah Andre White, Aimee Powell  and Naomi Yang.

Showrunner Jed Mercurio enthused: “I’m honoured to be working with our brilliant new cast members, and I know the audience will be thrilled to see some much-loved old faces returning from previous seasons.”

As well as writing all six episodes of Line Of Duty’s next iteration, Jed will also direct the second half of the season.

Meanwhile, The Sun recently reported that season seven would once again focus on the mysterious “H”, after many viewers were unimpressed with how things played out in the most recent finale.