The Printworks nightclub in Rotherhithe can be seen in the trailer alongside Delights Hair & Beauty salon on Rye Lane, Peckham. The Silver Building, a former Carlsberg-Tetley factory at the Docklands Depot in Silvertown was used as a set for the Counter-Terrorism Special Unit headquarters. įilming took place at Shadwell railway station in January 2018 and in Brick Lane, Shoreditch. Raza's home and the fictional nearby "Bridge Town Estate" were primarily filmed at the Thamesmead estate in south-east London as well as the Silverlock Estate in Southwark.
#GENIUS INFORMER SNOW SERIES#
The series was largely filmed on location in London. Elizabeth Rider as Lady Justice Spencer.
#GENIUS INFORMER SNOW PROFESSIONAL#
His humorous personality and alcoholic tendencies mask the pain of his wife's death. Paul Tylak as Hanif Shar, father of Raza and Nasir.Stanley Townsend as Geoffrey Boyce, DCI Rose Asante's counterpart.Having overstayed her student visa by at least 16 years to raise the two following their mother's death, Sadia's threatened deportation is used against Raza to coerce him into becoming an informer. Sunetra Sarker as Sadia Shar, a Pakistani national who poses as the mother of Raza and Nasir.Roger Nsengiyumva as Dadir Hassan, a third-generation British Somali befriended by Raza Working as a drug dealer in East London, his suspected terrorist connections are of interest to Raza's informing work.Arsher Ali as Imran Aziz, an undercover police detective.Jessica Raine as Emily Waters, wife of Gabe, while she is initially loyal to him and she never questions his police work, her burning questions about his past work have what it takes to make Gabe's two world collide and unravel her life and family.Nabhaan Rizwan as Raza Shar, a British Pakistani who is coerced by Gabe into working as an informer to uncover information about a possible cell connected with a terrorist attack in the Netherlands.Bel Powley as DC Holly Morten, a young officer recently selected to join the Counter-Terrorism Special Unit and assigned as Gabe's partner, though her inquisitive nature threatens his police work on many occasions.Haunted by his past undercover work for the Met's Special Branch, infiltrating a far-right movement in West Yorkshire, he struggles to balance his workload with time for his wife and daughter. Paddy Considine as DS Gabe Waters, a counterterrorism officer for the fictional Counter-Terrorism Special Unit.Raza (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a young second-generation British Pakistani man from London who is coerced into informing by Gabe ( Paddy Considine), a counterterrorism officer for the fictional Counter-Terrorism Special Unit (CTSU), his newfound role in National safety leads him into a variety of dangerous situations, alliances and a struggle to balance both his civilian lifestyle and be the person that his family knows, as well of that of a police informer.