Faye Marsay Source

What are you trying to hide, Sarah?

Sarah Ivy - Shamed (2017)

Shamed airs tonight at 9pm on Channel 4

Faye Marsay said: "It’s a mash-up of different experiences and people going through different things.

"I did a bit of research – mainly just doing a lot of reading up on how these situations are out there, they do happen to people."

Shamed (2017) - Premieres on December 19 at 9pm on C4

Shamed (2017) trailer - C4

Sarah Ivy (Faye Marsay) exacts finely choreographed revenge for an improper act from when she was 17. But what happened to Sarah? And what will happen to the men she imprisons?

C4 orders drama starring GoT actress as abuse survivor

Faye Marsay leads new drama Shamed.

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Channel 4 Factual has commissioned a new revenge drama starring Game of Thrones actress Faye Marsay.

Shamed will follow a young 27-year-old woman called Sarah Ivy, played by Marsay, who decides to take revenge for a horrific act that was committed against her while a teenager.

"Now with the help of James, her brother, she manages to kidnap two men," Channel 4's synopsis for the hour-long drama reads.

"The first is Nathan Bowyar, played by Nick Blood (Agents of SHIELD, Babylon) who is looking forward to his stag do and wedding day, but before he makes it to either of them he is seized and taken to an unknown location.

"The second is Mani Yalla, who joins Nathan in Sarah's man-made prison cell. Neither of them believes they know Sarah, or what she would want with them, but Sarah knows. What happened to her? What has led her to this? And how will Nathan and Mani escape?"

The connections between the characters are revealed as the plot progresses, as well as the role of the media in bringing shame upon them.

Shamed is written and directed by Anthony Philipson (My Mad Fat Diary), who said: "I'm thrilled to have been given the opportunity by the factual department to write and direct my first ever single drama.

"It's an important story that deals with a very modern phenomenon but with a surprising and dramatic interpretation."

Marsay has come to prominence playing The Waif in Game of Thrones, and has also appeared in Black Mirror and Doctor Who.