{"id":717741,"date":"2026-07-29T18:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:50:19","slug":"young-sherlock-adds-sophie-skelton-indira-varma-more-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717741\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Young Sherlock’ Adds Sophie Skelton, Indira Varma, More For Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s Young Sherlock<\/a> is replenishing its cast ranks as it embarks on a new mystery for Season 2. Joining Guy Ritchie<\/a>\u2018s action comedy-drama as new series regulars are Olivia Williams<\/a> (Dune: Prophecy), Sophie Skelton<\/a> (Outlander), Indira Varma<\/a> (The Night Manager) and Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones).<\/p>\n

\n\tThey join lead Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who plays the titular character, and fellow returning main cast members D\u00f3nal Finn (James Moriarty) as well as Natascha McElhone, Max Irons and Holly Cattle, who play Sherlock\u2019s mother Cordelia, brother Mycroft and sister Beatrice, respectively. (Details about new cast additions\u2019 characters are not being revealed.)<\/p>\n

\n\tNot coming back is Season 1\u2019s female lead Zine Tseng, whose character Xiao Wei\/Princess Gulun Shou\u2019an saw her arc wrapped nicely in the finale. Tseng was considered unlikely to return but she had left the door slightly open in interviews. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlso not returning is Joseph Fiennes as Sherlock\u2019s father Silas Holmes who jumped off a cliff in the Season 1 finale and was presumed \u2014 but not confirmed \u2014 dead. Further corroborating Silas\u2019 fate is the fact that also gone is Numan Acar who played his fixer Esad Kasgarli in Season 1. (Fellow main cast member Colin Firth\u2019s character Bucephalus Hodge was killed off earlier in the season.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 2 of Young Sherlock, which charts the origin story of the world\u2019s greatest detective, is currently in production, with executive producer Ritchie directing the first episode. Filming started in late May with Palermo, Italy as one of the locations.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Joseph<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJoseph Fiennes, Zine Tseng, Do\u0301nal Finn, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Natascha McElhone, Max Irons in \u2018Young Sherlock\u2019 Season 1.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Smith\/Prime Video<\/p>\n

\n\tThrough its first 28 days of release, Season 1 of Young Sherlock reached 45 million viewers and ranks among the top 10 Prime Original Seasons all-time. The series hit number 1 in over 95 countries worldwide, with 63% of its audience coming from international markets and an outsized performance in the UK, India, and Germany, per the streamer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series is created for television and executive produced by showrunner Matthew Parkhill with executive producers Marc Resteghini, Dhana Rivera Gilbert, Simon Maxwell, Ivan Atkinson, Simon Kelton, Colin Wilson, Harriet Creelman, and co-executive producers Steve Thompson and James Dormer. Motive Pictures leads physical production.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis marks Skelton\u2019s first TV role since concluding her seven-year run on Starz\u2019s Outlander playing Brianna Randall Fraser. On the big screen, she starred in the sequel I Can Only Imagine 2 earlier this year and was seen in the 2025 British thriller Row. Skelton is repped by Emptage Hallett, Alchemy Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams is known for her roles in The Sixth Sense and Rushmore. She most recently played Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u201ds Nest opposite Aaron Pierre at The Old Vic in London\u2019s West End and will be seen reprising her starring role in Season 2 of HBO\u2019s Dune: Prophecy, which will be released later this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tVarma plays Mrs. Gardiner in The Other Bennet Sister and also recently starred in Season 2 of The Night Manager for Prime Video alongside Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman and in the ITV limited series Coldwater alongside Andrew Lincoln. Her upcoming projects include Season 2 of Dune: Prophecy and the feature film Frank & Louis. Varma is repped by 42MP in the UK and Principal Entertainment, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham in the US.<\/p>\n

\n\tTony nominee Gillen, winner of three Irish Film & Television Awards, recently had a major role in Taylor Sheridan\u2019s series Mayor of Kingstown for Paramount+. He will next be seen in the film Sunny opposite Angelina Jolie, and on television in Tall Tales & Murder for BBC, and Saviour for ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video\u2018s Young Sherlock is replenishing its cast ranks as it embarks on a new mystery for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[237530,96,127399,166878,237531,11523,237532,391,56,54,55,127400],"class_list":["post-717741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-aiden-gillen","tag-entertainment","tag-guy-ritchie","tag-indira-varma","tag-olivia-williams","tag-prime-video","tag-sophie-skelton","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-young-sherlock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}