Natalie Portman to star in Apple TV+’s Lady In The Lake

It’s always exciting when one of your favourite novelists get one of their works adapted for TV.

Baltimore-based writer Laura Lippman is getting the Apple TV+ treatment for her book, Lady In The Lake.

When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger.

Starring alongside Portman and Ingram in the series are Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince.

The seven-part series debuts on the streaming service with two episodes on Friday 19th July, followed by new episodes every Friday.