''Undercover'' is a Belgian-Dutch Dutch-language

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television series starring Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and

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. The plot revolves around a story inspired by real-life events, where undercover agents infiltrate a drug kingpin's operation in Limburg, a

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province bordering the

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. The infiltration is executed by two agents, Bob Lemmens ( Tom Waes) and Kim de Rooij (Anna Drijver), who are posing as a couple at the campground where the drug kingpin spends his weekends. It is a co-production between Netflix and public Belgium TV station

Eén VRT 1 is a public Dutch-language TV station in Belgium, owned by the VRT, which also owns Ketnet, VRT Canvas and several radio stations. Although the channel is commercial-free, short sponsorship messages are broadcast in between some programm ...

, and was ordered direct-to-series. The first season premiered on

on February 24, 2019, in

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; its second season was scheduled for a September 6, 2020 release on Eén. The series began streaming on Netflix on May 3, 2019. It was renewed for a second season which premiered on November 8, 2020. Season 3 premiered in November 2021.

Cast

Season 1

* Tom Waes as Bob Lemmens * Anna Drijver as Kim De Rooij *

as Ferry Bouwman *

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as Danielle Bouwman * Raymond Thiry as John Zwart *Robbie Cleiren as Marc Gevers *Manou Kersting as Nick Janssens *Katrien De Ruysscher as Liesbeth Mertens *Huub Smit as Dennis de Vries *Lieke van den Broek as Sonja van Kamp * Sara De Bosschere as Lena Vandekerckhove * Kevin Janssens as Jurgen van Kamp * Kris Cuppens as Walter Devos *Nina Mensch as Jezebel van Kamp *Emma Verlinden as Polly Lemmens *Warre Verlinden as David Lemmens

Season 2

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as Laurent Berger * Sebastien Dewaele as Jean-Pierre Berger * Ruth Becquart as Nathalie Geudens * Celest Henri Cornelis as Jackson Geudens * Chris Lomme as Yvet Berger * Sarah Vandeursen as Betty * Robrecht Vanden Thoren as T-Bone * Mourade Zeguendi as Vincent Messaoudi * Sanne Samina Hanssen as Lisa

Season 3

* Nazmiye Oral as Leyla Bulut * Murat Seven as Serkan Bulut * Gökhan Girginol as Timur Celik * Gökhan Kizilbuga as Mehmet * Yannick van de Velde as Lars van Marken * Wouter Hendrickx as Tanguy Dupont * Jeroen van der Ven as Patrick Diericks

Episodes

Season 1 (2019)

Season 2 (2020)

Season 3 (2021)

Release

The full first season consisting of 10 episodes premiered on Netflix streaming on May 3, 2019.

Prequels

In May 2021, Netflix released ''

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'', a film prequel to the series and, in 2023, ''Ferry: The Series'', an eight-part further prequel. In December 2024, movie Ferry 2 was published.

References

External links

* * * {{Netflix original current series 2019 Dutch television series debuts 2010s crime drama television series VRT 1 original programming Dutch-language television shows Netflix television dramas Television shows set in Belgium