Olivier-award winning actress Denise Gough will star in Paula, BBC Two’s new revenge thriller by playwright and filmmaker Conor McPherson. She will be joined by Tom Hughes (Victoria, The Game). 　　Owen McDonnell (Spooks, Single-handed) will also star in the three-part drama directed by Alex Holmes (Coalition, House of Saddam). 　　Olivier and Tony-award winning Conor McPherson’s first original television series is a thrilling story about the fallout in a young Chemistry teacher’s life, after her one-night stand with a good-looking but dangerous ducker and diver. There is an instant, animalistic, spark of attraction before they become locked in a dance of mutual destruction. Only one can survive, but their actions will take a terrifying toll on all those around them.