‘Industry’ Adds Cary Elwes, Dianna Agron, Sam Riley, More For Season 5

Industry is rounding out the cast for the financial thriller’s upcoming fifth and final season with a whole host of guest and supporting roles.

The series has added Cary Elwes, Dianna Agron, Sam Riley, Jessica Brown Findlay, Luke Manley, Bally Gill and Eduard Poliakov, HBO revealed Monday. The castings also give a slight indication as to the direction for Season 5, building on the previously announcement that Zosia Mamet has joined Season 5 as Carmen Dame, a fitness influencer-turned-wellness tech founder and CEO.

Agron is playing Skip Binksy, CFO of a wellness tech company — whether its one and the same, or a rival wellness tech company, remains to be seen. Elwes will play Padgett Stillman, an investor.

Riley has been cast as Solomon Kerr, an elusive British businessman who made his fortune in Silicon Valley. Brown Findlay is Marina St. Clair, a family friend of Sir Henry Muck. Gill has snagged the role of Nikesh Shah, a charistmatic left-wing politician.

There is also a few new traders in the mix. Manley is set to play Stevie Delmonte, an execution trader. And last but certainly not least, Poliakov has been cast as Olexij Kovalchuk, also a trader.

Industry has transcended extremely humble beginnings as a modest series about a group of young financial professionals on the trading floor at a prestigious global investment firm.

Global viewing for Season 4 has outpaces the third season by roughly 30%, per the network. In the U.S., episodes were averaging 1.7M viewers by the time it was renewed for its fifth and final season ahead of the Season 4 finale. That’s after the Season 4 premiere jumped 20% over that of Season 3 in just three days with 800,000 U.S. cross-platform viewers.

Industry is created, written, and executive produced by Mickey Down & Konrad Kay. They pen the series will writer Joseph Charlton.

In Season 4, at the top of their game and living the lives they set out to have as Pierpoint grads, Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) are drawn into a high stakes, globetrotting cat-and-mouse game when a splashy fintech darling bursts onto the London scene. As Yasmin navigates her relationship with tech founder Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) and Harper is pulled into the orbit of enigmatic executive Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), their twisted friendship begins to warp and ignite under the pressure of money, power, and the desire to be on top. 

The Season 4 cast also included Ken Leung, Miriam Petche, Sagar Radia, Toheeb Jimoh, Charlie Heaton, Amy James-Kelly, Roger Barclay, Andrew Havill, Kiernan Shipka, Kal Penn, Jack Farthing, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Forlani, and Edward Holcroft. 

The series is a Bad Wolf Production for HBO/BBC and is executive produced by Jane Tranter, Kate Crowther, and Ryan Rasmussen for Bad Wolf; Kathleen McCaffrey for Little Gems; and Rebecca Ferguson for BBC. Directors include Mickey Down & Konrad Kay, Michelle Savill, and Luke Snellin.

Elwes is represented by Link Entertainment and Independent Artists Group (IAG). Agron is represented by Paradigm & Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Riley is represented by Florence Rose at Independent Talent and Tapestry London. Brown Findlay is represented by Tapestry. Manley is represented by Authentic Talent & Literary Management. Gill is represented by Max Latimer at JAG. Poliakov is represented by R Talent