FACE IS FAMILIAR: Aimee-Ffion Edwards

With her role as Cassandra in Troy (9pm, BBC1), Aimee-Ffion Edwards, 30, adds the historical epic to an already impressive TV CV. Here’s where you might have seen her before…

The Welsh factor: Newport-born Aimee-Ffion made her TV debut in 2006 in singing contest

Wawffactor on S4C. She came second. In 2008, she got her big break in series two of E4’s Skins; her character, deluded

Welsh teen Sketch, hooked up with Anwar, played by future Oscar nominee Dev Patel.

Going for grit: In 2011, she played Jenny Jones – teenage drug addict, prostitute and porn actress – in the second series of Luther. Two years later, she made her debut in Peaky Blinders as Esme, who married John Shelby in order to keep the peace between her gypsy clan and his own family gang. Esme left early in series four after her husband was gunned down. The lighter side: Playing schoolgirl Mary in Walking And Talking (2012) and metaldetecting enthusiast Sophie in Detectorists

(2014-15) gave her the chance to shine at comedy, while Loaded (2017), about four tech entrepreneurs – Aimee-Ffion played the ex of one of them – made her something of a star when the show aired in the US. It’s a ‘gift’: In Greek myth, Cassandra’s curse is to foretell the future, but not be believed – in 2015, in Wolf Hall,

Aimee-Ffion’s character, Sister Elizabeth Barton, prophesied the swift death of Henry VIII if he wed Anne Boleyn. Henry lived for 15 more years; Elizabeth was executed just over a year after Henry and Anne were formally married.