Jackie Woolf

Jackie Woolf is a defense barrister who takes on the case of a woman accused of murder, entering a system that seems already to have decided her client's guilt. Sharp-minded and unyielding, she reads the evidence with a clear eye and refuses easy assumptions, determined to give her client a fair fight in court.

Sophie Okonedo plays intelligence as quiet force rather than showy speechmaking, letting Jackie's competence come through in small, exact choices — a pause before a question, a flicker of doubt she never lets show to the jury. The writing trusts her professionalism to carry tension, and Okonedo makes watching someone simply do her job well feel gripping.