Leon Ockenden is Serge De Bolotoff. Photo: BBC

CURRENTLY showing on BBC First (DStv channel 119) is the popular costume drama, Mr Selfridge. Starring Emmy award-winning American actor, Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Mr Selfridge is inspired by the life of charismatic American entrepreneur, Harry Gordon Selfridge, whose business in London’s Oxford Street has become a much-loved institution.

Series 3 picks up in 1919 just after the end of World War I and sees Zoë Wanamaker (Harry Potter films) joins the cast to play Russian Princess, Marie de Bolotoff, whose handsome son Serge, played by Leon Ockenden (Casualty) marries Harry’s eldest daughter, Rosalie (Kara Tointon, EastEnders).

Kara’s real-life sister, Hannah Tointon, plays her rebellious sister, Violette, which sees the sisters acting together for the first time. And Sacha Parkinson (Coronation Street, The Mill) joins the cast to play Kitty Hawkins’ ambitious younger sister, along with Kelly Adams (Holby City) who plays Harry’s new love interest, Nancy Webb.

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