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The Tourist’s Shalom Brune-Franklin: the star of your TV obsessions

The actress who played Line of Duty’s efficient DC Chloe Bishop is back in the BBC’s major new drama

Shalom Brune-Franklin
Shalom Brune-Franklin
MICHAEL LECKIE FOR THE TIMES
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Before I talk to Shalom Brune-Franklin about The Tourist, the nerve-shredding new outback thriller series she stars in with Jamie Dornan, her publicist emails a list of spoilers to avoid. Could we please steer clear of discussing “who is driving the truck”, “what happens at the diner” or “what The Man finds in his pocket in the hospital”? They needn’t have worried — Brune-Franklin is adept at keeping schtum about plot details. When she was playing the quietly competent DC Chloë Bishop in the most recent series of Line of Duty, the Anglo-Australian actress was subject to more real-life interrogations than a suspected OCG mastermind.

”I feel like I keep doing shows where I’m not allowed to speak about anything, so doing