''The Secrets She Keeps'' is an Australian

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television series that premiered on

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on 22 April 2020 at 8:45 pm. The series is written by Sarah Walker and Jonathan Gavin, based on the psychological thriller novel by

Michael Robotham Michael Robotham (born 9 November 1960) is an Australian crime fiction writer who has twice won the CWA Gold Dagger award for best novel and twice been shortlisted for the Edgar Award for best novel. His eldest child is Alexandra Hope Robotham, ...

. The first season was given a special release on

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on 4 April 2020 as a part of the streaming website's "10 shows in 10 days" promotion during the

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. A second season premiered on streaming service

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on 12 July 2022.

Premise

The series is set in

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and is about two women from vastly different backgrounds with explosive secrets that could destroy everything they hold dear.

Cast

* Laura Carmichael as Agatha Fyfle *

Jessica De Gouw Jessica Elise De Gouw (born 15 February 1988) is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress in the television series ''Arrow'', as Mina Murray in the NBC TV series ''Dracula'', and as Elizabeth Hawkes in ...

as Meghan Shaughnessy *

Michael Dorman Michael Dorman (born 26 April 1981) is a New Zealand actor, best known for his starring roles as Tom Wilcox in '' Wonderland'' (2013–2015), John Tavner in ''Patriot'' (2015–2018), NASA astronaut Gordo Stevens in '' For All Mankind'' (2019� ...

(season 1) and

Todd Lasance Todd James Lasance (born 18 February 1985) is an Australian actor, best recognised for his roles in Australian television including Aden Jefferies on ''Home and Away'', Cam Jackson on '' Rescue: Special Ops'', Ben McMahon on '' Crownies'' and M ...

(season 2) as Jack Shaughnessy *

Ryan Corr Ryan Corr is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles in the Australian drama series ''Packed to the Rafters'', '' Love Child'' and '' Underbelly'', along with film roles in '' Wolf Creek 2'' (2013), '' The Water Diviner'' (2014), '' Holdi ...

as Simon Beecher *

Michael Sheasby Michael Sheasby is an Australian actor, known for his roles as Steve Carmody in the Seven Network television soap opera ''Home and Away'' (2012), as Bert Ford in the Seven Network drama series '' A Place to Call Home'' (2013–2014), as Hayden Co ...

as Hayden Cole *

Cariba Heine Cariba Heine (born 1 October 1988) is a South African-born Australian actress and dancer. She is known for her roles as Rikki Chadwick in the Network Ten show '' H2O: Just Add Water'', Bridget Sanchez in the third series of '' Blue Water High'' ...

as Grace *

Jenni Baird Jenni Baird (born 29 April 1976) is an Australian actress. Baird was educated at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts from which she graduated in 1999. Upon graduation, Baird appeared in the Australian short film ''I Promise''. Bai ...

as Rhea Bowden * Elizabeth Alexander as Renee Cole *

Hazem Shammas Hazem Shammas is a Palestinian Australians, Palestinian Australian actor. He won the Logie Awards of 2018, 2018 Logie Award for Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor, Most Outstanding Supporting Actor for Safe Harbour (TV series), Saf ...

as Cyrus Haven * Mansoor Noor as Jeremy Clay * Eva Greenwood as Lucy Shaughnessy *

Jonny Pasvolsky Jonathan Marc Pasvolsky (born 26 July 1972), also known as Jonny Pasvolsky, is a South African-born Australian actor. Early life and education Pasvolsky was born on July 26, 1972, in Cape Town, South Africa, to a Jewish family. He was raised ...

as Crown Prosecutor *

Sonia Todd Sonia Todd (born 1959) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her television roles as Sgt. Georgia Rattray in ''Police Rescue'' (1989–1996), Meg Fountain in '' McLeod's Daughters'' (2001–2008) and Gina Austin in the soap opera '' ...

as Judge *

Gosia Dobrowolska Małgorzata Dobrowolska (born 2 June 1958, in Kamienna Góra), known as Gosia Dobrowolska, is a Polish-born Australian actress. Biography She has one brother, Janusz Dobrowolski, who also made a minor appearance in the 1984 film, '' Silver C ...

as Anna Nowak *

Guy Edmonds Guy Edmonds is an Australian born director, writer, actor and author. Edmonds co created, wrote, directed and starred in the Emmy award-winning series '' Hardball'' and ''Spooky Files''. He also co-authored the hit book series ''Zombie Diaries' ...

as Detective Poulos *

Ling-Hsueh Tang Ling Cooper Tang, formerly credited as Ling-Hsueh Tang, is a Chinese Australian actress. She became known for her role as Dr. Kylie Preece in the hospital drama TV series '' All Saints'' (1999-2002), and has starred in many TV series since, i ...

as Jocelyn *

Heather Mitchell Heather Lee Mitchell is an Australian actor, who has appeared in Australian stage, television, and film productions. She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show '' Spellbinder''. More recently, she appeared as Anita in ...

as Jenny *

Zac Drayson Zac Drayson (born 14 January 1983) is an Australian actor. Early life Drayson was born Zachary Lowell Drayson in Sydney, New South Wales. Career He is best known for the role of Will Smith, one of Irene Roberts' ( Lynne McGranger) many foster ...

as John Jones *

Lucy Bell Lucy Bell (born 23 December 1968) is an English-born Australian actress who appears in Australian television, film and theatre. Early life Bell was born in 1968 in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, to Australian actor/director John Bell an ...

as Belinda *

CJ Bloomfield CJ Bloomfield is a Polynesian Australian actor. Bloomfield is known for his performance in '' Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga'' and The Secrets She Keeps. He will also appear in the upcoming films ''Mortal Kombat 2'' and '' R.U.R''. Early life Bloomfi ...

as Brent Scicluna

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1 (2020)

Season 2 (2022)

International broadcast

In Ireland, the series was broadcast on

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from 9 June 2020 and made available to stream on

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. Season 2 was broadcast from 2 August 2022 on

and

. In the United Kingdom, the series is broadcast through the

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. The first season was allocated a primetime slot on

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in July 2020, and all episodes were concurrently available on

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. The show screens on streaming service

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in the United States.

References

External links

* – official site *
''The Secrets She Keeps''
production site at Lingo Pictures * {{DEFAULTSORT:Secrets She Keeps, The 2020 Australian television series debuts 2020s Australian drama television series 2022 Australian television series endings APRA Award winners Australian English-language television shows Network 10 original programming Paramount+ original programming Television shows based on books Television shows set in New South Wales