Will Mondrich

A former boxer turned Mayfair fixture, Will Mondrich moves through the ton's ballrooms with the easy confidence of a man who has earned his place the hard way. Married and devoted to his family, he trades in his fighting career for respectability, and finds himself drawn into the aristocracy's schemes and gossip almost against his will.

Mondrich gives the show a rare vantage point from outside the peerage looking in, and Martins Imhangbe plays him with a grounded, watchful warmth that never curdles into resentment. He's steady where the lords are reckless, which makes his own ambitions and compromises land with unexpected weight.