Daisy Ridley to star as Agatha Christie’s love rival in film on the Queen of Crime’s disappearance 

She played a glamorous governess in the hit adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express.

Now Daisy Ridley, who rose to fame in the Star Wars franchise, will play the mistress of the Queen of Crime’s husband in a new fact-based drama.

The television series will tell the story of Christie’s mysterious disappearance in 1926. She disappeared for 11 days after it was revealed her husband was having an affair, prompting an international search.

The author’s Morris Cowley car was found abandoned with her clothes inside near a chalk quarry at Newlands Corner in Surrey, and it was feared that she may have drowned in a pool or been murdered.

Ridley, 30, plays Nan O’Dea, Colonel Archibald Christie’s mistress, in the new Miramax series. In real life, her name was Nancy Neele.

The actress will also executive produce the series, which is being adapted from Nina de Gramont’s bestselling novel The Christie Affair. The London-born Ridley was among the star cast in Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 remake of Murder On The Orient Express.

Mystery: The front page of the Daily Sketch announced the safe return of British crime novelist Agatha Christie (1890-1976), who had been missing for eleven days on December 15, 1926.

Christie was finally discovered 11 days after she went missing, hiding in a hotel in Yorkshire. She was registered at the hotel in the name of her husband’s lover. She never spoke of her disappearance and she died at age 85 in 1976.

Marc Helwig of Miramax TV said, “Daisy is one of the most captivating and talented actresses working today, and we’re thrilled to have her play Nina de Gramont’s mesmerizing Nan O’Dea.”