Robert Carlyle joins Line of Duty for series seven

Acclaimed actor will take on guest lead role as a specialist firearms officer in hit BBC crime drama

Robert Carlyle will join the cast of Line of Duty to play a guest lead role in the new series, it has been announced.

The actor follows his Trainspotting co-star Kelly Macdonald, as well as Stephen Graham – the creator and star of Adolescence – and the Westworld actor Thandiwe Newton, in taking on such a role.