Simone Ashley to headline Bridgerton Season 2

By Express News Service
Actor Simone Ashley, recognized for her work in Sex Education and Because the Night, is ready to play the lead position within the second season of Netflix’s Bridgerton. She will star reverse Jonathan Bailey within the sequence, which is predicated on Julia Quinn’s best-selling novels.

While the primary season revolved across the romance and marriage between the eldest Bridgerton daughter, Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset (Rege-Jean Page), the second season will chronicle the pursuit of an appropriate marriage for the eldest Bridgerton sibling, Anthony (Bailey).

This storyline was a part of the second guide of Quinn’s Bridgerton sequence, The Viscount Who Loved Me. According to Deadline, Ashley will play Anthony’s romantic curiosity, Kate Sharma, a personality of Indian descent.

While veteran actor Julie Andrews voice stars as narrator Lady Whistledown, the writer of the scandalous society pages, the sequence additionally options Nicola Coughlan, Claudia Jessie, Ruby Barker, Adjoa Andoh, Golda Rosheuvel, Luke Thompson, Luke Newton, Ruth Gemmell and Bessie Carter.

Produced by Shonda Rhimes, Bridgerton has Chris Van Dusen on board because the showrunner.