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"Merlin star Katie McGrath is to appear in new TV drama Dracula. The upcoming horror series will star Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the iconic vampire.  McGrath will play Lucy Westenra, a London socialite who is friends with Mina Murray - played by Arrow&amp;#039;s Jessica De Gouw - according to TVLine. Digital Spy previously named McGrath as our top choice for the role of Lucy in a Casting Dracula feature back in July 2012. Game of Thrones actor Nonso Anozie has also been cast on Dracula as Renfield, the loyal accomplice of Dracula. The new series takes place in London in the 1890s, where Dracula poses as Alan Grayson, an American businessman, while secretly seeking revenge on those who wronged him. Carniv\u00E0le creator Dan Knauf will serve as showrunner on the ten-part Dracula which will air on NBC in the US and Sky Living in the UK. &amp;gt; Dracula soap opera in development at NBC [Gallery: &amp;#039;Dracula&amp;#039; movies across the years]  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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