Ackley Bridge star Amy Leigh Hickman has joined the cast of You alongside fellow EastEnders alumni Tilly Keeper.
The 24-year-old, who played Nasreen Paracha on Ackley Bridge from 2017, has been cast in the fourth series of the psychological Netflix thriller, as production moves to the UK for its fourth series.
Amy is set to join fellow former soap stars Dario Coate, who plays Alex Neeson in Corrie, and Eve Austin, who plays Tabitha Taylor-Rudd in Emmerdale, alongside lead actor Penn Badgley, who plays creepy stalker Joe Goldberg.
Amy will play a new character on the Netflix show called Nadia, a literature student who aspires to be a serious author.
Meanwhile, Louis Mitchell actress Tilly is playing the role of Lady Phoebe, and new pictures from the production saw her filming street scenes alongside actor Lukas Gage of The White Lotus and Euphoria fame.
The Netflix hit has relocated production across the pond, as a source told The Sun last month: "This will come as a huge surprise to the millions of fans of the show around the world, who got used to the first three seasons being based in various locations in the US.
"The last thing they would have expected was for the next outing to move lock, stock and barrel across the Atlantic and feature a largely British cast.
"But the producers wanted to provide a fresh take on the show, though Joe will no doubt be going back to his dark deeds when he arrives in London."
Amy, 24, portrayed EastEnders’ Linzi Bragg, or Star as she was known to Albert Square residents, between 2016 and 2017.
Her biggest role came in 2017, when she landed the part of Nasreen Paracha on teen drama Ackley Bridge.
The 24-year-old left the Channel 4 show at the end of the third series, and went on to star in BBC One’s military drama Our Girl, which she described as "challenging" due to the realism of the war scenes.
Playing nervous junior medic Mimi Saunders alongside Michelle Keegan, Amy was forced to miss the cast’s course of military training, as it clashed with her filming Ackley Bridge.
She told the Evening Standard of filming in South Africa: “It feels impossible to not feel [like you’re in a war] because it looks like that so much; with the way you’re all dressed, the set that we film in, it feels so real - especially when you’re doing all the shooting scenes and sequences.
“I think it would be hard to find that kind of performance if you didn’t have it feel so real around you. I think that’s probably why it looks so good because they make it feel like that.”
