Production on Bridgerton season two kicked off in late April, after it was revealed that a series of new actors would be joining the cast.

These include Sex Education’s Simone Ashley, who will be playing the series’ female lead and Anthony Bridgerton’s love interest, Miss Kate Sharma, and Dunkirk’s Calam Lynch, who will play Theo Sharpe, a “hardworking printer’s assistant” who “fights for the rights for all”.

Other faces joining the cast are Charithra Chandran, who will play Kate’s younger sister, Edwina, Shelley Conn, who will play Kate’s mother, Mary, and Rupert Young, who will play Jack, “the newest member of the ton”.

The Man In The High Castle’s Rupert Evans will also play Edmund Bridgerton, Violet’s late husband and the father of all the Bridgerton children.

Bridgerton season 2: filming on the show has been suspended due to a Covid-19 outbreak