While Dakota dominates the indie circuit, Jamie Dornan is taking a darker turn with The Undertow, a Netflix noir thriller where he plays identical twin brothers with diverging pasts. Set in the haunting Scottish Highlands, the series is a slow-burning exploration of grief, revenge, and fractured identity.
Dornan portrays both characters—one a reclusive fisherman, the other a rising crime boss—with chilling detail. The dual role pushed him to emotional extremes, as he told ICON Magazine: “It’s the hardest I’ve ever worked. I wasn’t just memorizing lines. I was untangling lives.”
Directed by Tom Shankland and written by BAFTA-winner Alice Birch, the series has already drawn comparisons to True Detective and Broadchurch, but with a more poetic edge.
Jamie, now a father of three and a seasoned TV actor, says he chooses roles based on their emotional resonance, not their glamour. “It’s never been about being liked. It’s about truth,” he said. And in The Undertow, that truth is shadowy, complicated, and deeply human
