The Honourable Woman

About The Honourable Woman

Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank.

The Honourable Woman is a crime, war, and politics series that ran on BBC Two. Its themes are agent, middle east, palestinian-israeli conflict, and miniseries.

Its one season of 8 episodes aired between July 2014 and August 2014.

Maggie Gyllenhaal stars as Nessa Stein, Stephen Rea as Hugh Hayden-Hoyle, Lubna Azabal as Atika Halibi, and Katherine Parkinson as Rachel Stein. Production companies include BBC Two, BBC Worldwide, and Drama Republic.

House of Saddam, Ambassadors, and One Thousand and One Nights make useful companions to The Honourable Woman. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 129 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.