Sienna Miller and Michelle Dockery will star in Netflix’s adaptation of Sarah Vaughan’s novel Anatomy Of A Scandal.
The book, which was published in the UK in 2019, follows a Westminster politician whose marriage begins to unravel after he is accused of sexual misconduct, while his wife fights to prove his innocence.
Big Little Lies creator David E Kelley is leading the adaptation of the bestseller.
Miller will play Oxford University graduate Sophie Whitehouse, the wife and mother-of-two who finds herself at the centre of the scandal.
Dockery will play Kate Woodcroft, a criminal barrister who specialises in prosecuting sex crimes.
Rupert Friend will play junior minister James Whitehouse, who is married to Sophie.
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