Reality collided with TV fiction when the US ambassador to the UK, Jane Hartley, came face to face with her on-screen counterpart, actress Keri Russell, over cocktails and canapés at her London residence, Winfield House.
And joining the dynamic duo (above) for the dazzling reception, hosted in honour of hit Netflix drama The Diplomat, was a star-studded line-up including the show’s cast, who mingled with real-life diplomats and politicians such as British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
Among the glamorous guests were British actor Rufus Sewell, who plays ambassador Kate Wyler’s charismatic husband Hal (together inset right); Ato Essandoh, who portrays the embassy’s deputy chief of mission, Stuart Hayford; Ali Ahn, the show’s CIA station chief Eidra Park; and David Gyasi, whose sexual chemistry with Kate as Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison…