‘Star City’: Anna Maxwell Martin Joins ‘For All Mankind’ Spinoff At Apple TV+

Nellie Andreeva

6 February 2025 at 12:00 pm·1-min read

BAFTA Award-winner Anna Maxwell Martin (Motherland) is set as a lead opposite Rhys Ifans in Apple TV+‘s upcoming series Star City, a spinoff from the streamer’s space race drama For All Mankind.

Created by Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert and Ronald D. Moore, Star City is another alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.

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English actress Martin will play Lyudmilla, the head of the KGB surveillance department at Star City. Ifans stars as the Chief Designer.

Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions along with Steve Oster and Andrew Chambliss. Just like the mothership For All Mankind, which was recently renewed for a fifth season, Star City is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.

Martin has earned two Best Actress BAFTAs, in 2006 for Bleak House and in 2009 for Poppy Shakespeare, along with three more nominations. She most recently seen in ITV’s Until I Kill You and the BBC’s Ludwig opposite David Mitchell. Martin is repped by UK’s United Agents and Felker Toczek Suddleson McGinnis Ryan.

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