Haley Lu Richardson Joins Emilia Clark In Upcoming Peacock Thriller Series 'PONIES,' Role Revealed

Haley Lu Richardson is headed back to television!

The 29-year-old actress has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming espionage thriller series PONIES, Deadline reveals.

“!!!!???? (the eyebrows will be eyebrowing),” Haley wrote on Instagram along with the news.

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Haley will be portraying Twila, who is a “small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless.”

Here’s a plot summary: “Set in Moscow in 1977, the series follows two PONIES (‘persons of no interest’ in intelligence speak) who work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Bea is an over-educated, Russian-speaking child of Soviet immigrants. Her cohort, Twila, is a small-town girl who is as abrasive as she is fearless. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.”

Emilia Clark was previously announced to lead the series as Bea.

The project was co-created, co-written and executive produced by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, and is executive produced by Jessica Rhoades. Susanna is set to direct, while David will serve as showrunner.

Haley‘s last TV project was season two of The White Lotus, which aired in 2022.