Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke is all set to topline the upcoming Peacock spy thriller series, Ponies. The actor will also exectuvie produce in addition to starring in the series which hails from co-creators Susanna Fogel and David Iserson.
The official description for the series reads, "Moscow, 1977. Two ‘PONIES’ (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea (Clarke) is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”
While Iserson is set to serve as showrunner of Ponies, Fogel will direct. Executive producers also include Jessica Rhoades under her Pacesetter Productions banner along with Alison Mo Massey and Katherine Bridle. Ponies is produced by Universal Television.
Known popularly for playing Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, Clarke recently came on board the cast of the Amazon series, Criminal. Last seen in The Pod Generation and Marvel's Secret Invasion, the actor who has received four Emmy nominations, also has a voice role in The Twits coming up.
