{"id":247664,"date":"2026-01-20T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T08:00:09","slug":"death-in-paradise-confirms-siobhan-finneran-among-exciting-guest-stars-for-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247664\/","title":{"rendered":"Death in Paradise confirms Siobhan Finneran among exciting guest stars for new season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death in Paradise is welcoming a host of guest stars to its upcoming season, including Happy Valley’s Siobhan Finneran.<\/p>\n

The newcomers join Don Gilet as he reprises his role as DI Mervin Wilson<\/a>. The detective has had a hard time adjusting to life in Saint Marie, though he had the chance to reconnect to his long-lost half-brother Solomon (Daniel Ward).<\/p>\n

As DI Wilson readies to take “a myriad of baffling cases” in season 15, the synopsis teases a group of Saint Marie newcomers will be crossing paths with the established characters.<\/p>\n

Alongside Finneran, joining the series in a guest star role, are Gavin and Stacey’s Steffan Rhodri, Ghosts’ Ben Willbond, Midsomer Murders’ Gary Wilmot, and Downton Abbey stars Phoebe Sparrow and Antonia Bernath.<\/p>\n

Also starring are Killing Eve’s Sean Delaney, EastEnders’ Scarlett Alice Johnson, Spooks’ Hermione Norris, Horrible Histories’ Sarah Hadland, and Shakespeare in Love star Tim McMullan. <\/p>\n

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Rounding out the guest cast on season 15 are also Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ace Bhatti, Louis Davison, Lizzie Davidson, Kojo Kamara, Layo-Christina Akinlude, Sandra James-Young, and Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge.<\/p>\n

Details about the guest characters haven’t been disclosed, with Death in Paradise<\/a> fans left to discover the new additions to the cast when the series returns on 30 January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the synopsis for the new instalment teases Mervin will grow frustrated after realising he and Solomon “are not quite as similar as he hoped they might be”. <\/p>\n

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The upcoming season will also see Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Warrington) returning after a period of absence.<\/p>\n

“After some tough love from old friend, Catherine Bordey (Elizabeth Bourgine), he’s determined to win back the trust of the island,” the logline suggests.<\/p>\n

As for DS Naomi Thomas (Shantol Jackson) and Officer Sebastian Rose (Shaquille Ali-Yebuah), the duo will help new recruit Sergeant Mattie Fletcher (Catherine Garton) settle as “shadows from her past begin to reveal themselves”. <\/p>\n

Death in Paradise season 15 premieres on 30 January on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. <\/p>\n

Read more Death in Paradise news on our dedicated homepage<\/a>
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Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times<\/a> and Digital Spy<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Death in Paradise is welcoming a host of guest stars to its upcoming season, including Happy Valley’s Siobhan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[635,132544,637,146,85,46,636,132543,411],"class_list":["post-247664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-c25909ad-def5-496a-b221-44f4ff331f3c","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-death-in-paradise-confirms-guest-stars-for-s15","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}