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Black actor Turner-Smith to play English queen Anne Boleyn in new drama

 Jodie Turner-Smith [Photo: Henry Nicholls]

Black British actor Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn, wife of English King Henry VIII whom he had beheaded, in a three-part psychological thriller commissioned by TV station Channel 5.

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