Ben Platt and Russell Tovey Join Industry’s Final Season

Industry is expanding its cast for one last run. Ben Platt and Russell Tovey have joined the fifth and final season of the HBO and BBC drama, which is now in production.

New players enter the power game

Platt will play Matt Crenshaw, a venture capitalist described as an early supporter of a wellness-technology company. The role connects him to a new business storyline involving Zosia Mamet as founder and chief executive Carmen Dame and Dianna Agron as the company’s chief financial officer, Skip Binksy.

Tovey is set to appear as Declan P. Davis, the deputy to politician Nikesh Shah, played by Bally Gill. The two roles suggest that the final season will continue the series’ habit of widening its view beyond the trading floor, following the networks of money, influence and ambition surrounding its central characters.

Deadline and Variety separately confirmed the casting. They also place Platt and Tovey alongside a sizable group of previously announced additions, including Cary Elwes, Sam Riley, Jessica Brown Findlay, Luke Manley and Eduard Poliakov.

A final season with a larger ensemble

The newcomers join returning cast members Myha’la, Marisa Abela, Kit Harington, Ken Leung, Max Minghella, Miriam Petche, Sagar Radia and Toheeb Jimoh. Charlie Heaton, Kiernan Shipka and Kal Penn are also among the performers listed for the series.

Platt brings experience across stage, film and television, including his Tony-winning performance in Dear Evan Hansen and screen roles in The Politician and The Beauty. Tovey’s television credits include HBO’s Looking, Years and Years, Being Human and Quantico.

Mickey Down and Konrad Kay created the drama and serve as writers and executive producers. The series is produced by Bad Wolf for HBO and the BBC. No premiere date for Season 5 was included in the reports, leaving the casting announcement as the clearest sign that the show’s last chapter is moving forward.

For a drama built on rapidly changing alliances, the larger ensemble gives the final season more ways to complicate its endgame. Platt’s venture capitalist and Tovey’s political operator arrive from different worlds, but both fit naturally into a story about who controls access, information and power.