Beyond Paradise star Zahra Ahmadi has landed a new role away from the BBC series - and she looks worlds away from her character Esther Williams.

The actress plays Mehreen Askari-Evans, an intelligence operative alongside Endeavour star Shaun Evans and Romola Garai. The four-part series is set against the backdrop of MI5 and explores the fragile, tangled web of human relationships, where loyalty and deception collide.

Zahra looks completely different from her character in Beyond Paradise, as seen in the first-look pictures, where the actress dons blonde highlights in her hair and dark eye makeup.

In the Death in Paradise spin-off, where she stars alongside lead detective Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall), her character, Esther, adopts a more simplistic and natural look.

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