Sky’s Riviera Adds Rupert Graves to Cast

Rupert Graves has joined the cast of the third season of the Sky original series Riviera, in which he’ll play the role of Gabriel Hirsch.

Season three will pick up a year after last season’s finale that saw Georgina (Julia Stiles) abandon the cursed Riviera to start a new life. Now a rising star in international art restitution, she has reinvented herself as she travels the world on the hunt for stolen artworks and strikes up a new alliance with the carefree, charismatic and worldly Gabriel.

In addition to Stiles, among those returning for Riviera’s new season are Poppy Delevingne, Jack Fox, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Synnove Macody, Franco Masini, Elisio Barrionuevo and Maurizio Lombardi. Produced by Archery Pictures and Primo Productions, the series is a Sky original drama in association with Altice Studios.

Cameron Roach, Sky’s director of drama and Sky Studios, said: “Riviera has really captured the imagination of our subscribers and we’re thrilled to be returning to the audacious and unpredictable world occupied by Julia Stiles as Georgina, alongside her new co-star Rupert Graves. Riviera owns a unique space in the television landscape and we’re very proud of it as a show that offers the promise of danger and suspense whilst really entertaining and thrilling the viewer.”

Kris Thykier, executive producer for Archery Pictures, commented: “We are committed to producing the most glamorous, most thrilling show on television and our third season looks set to be the most explosive to date. Shooting in exclusive locations in Venice, St. Tropez and Buenos Aires, this series will dive into an entirely new world of corruption, deceit and murder amongst the globe-trotting 1 percent.”

Paul McGuinness, executive producer for Primo Productions, added: “The Côte d’Azur was the original inspiration for the series and it feels good to be shooting in St Tropez, the spiritual home of Riviera. Effortlessly sexy, hedonistic and a little bit dangerous. We’re excited to be back.”

Stiles added: “The expansion of this season, in terms of the gorgeous new countries we visit, as well as our new cast members, means the web is even more tangled for Georgina. I am thrilled to navigate this gilded conspiracy through her eyes and with Rupert Graves by her side.”