After making her mark on TV audiences with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke is coming back to the small screen.

The 37-year-old actress has signed on to star in Prime Video’s new TV series Criminal, according to Variety.

The series will be based on the Criminal comic book series that launched in 2006 by iconic comic book writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips.

Clarke joins a cast that already includes Charlie Hunnam, Richard Jenkins, John Hawkes, Adria Arjona, Logan Browning, Kadeem Hardison, Pat Healy, Taylor Sele, Gus Halper, Aliyah Camacho, Michael Mando, Marvin Jones III, Michael Xavier and Dominic Burgess.

Clarke will portray Mallory, who is described as, ‘a slick and daring armed robber, as quick with a gun as she is with her wits.’

After making her mark on TV audiences with her role as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO ‘s Game of Thrones , Emilia Clarke is coming back to the small screen

The series will be based on the Criminal comic book series that launched in 2006 by iconic comic book writer Ed Brubaker and illustrator Sean Phillips

She is part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless (Halper), ‘who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with.’

Mallory is also described as, ‘a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will bring her and her entire crew into the danger zone.’

The project was given a series order back in January, with Brubaker writing the pilot script based on his comics, with he and Phillips serving as executive producers.

The show is described as, ‘an interlocking universe of crime stories,’ with Brubaker serving as co-showrunner with Jordan Harper (Hightown, Gotham, The Mentalist).

The original comic series originally debuted in October 2006 as a 10-issue series that was later published as two trade paperbacks.

The second volume debuted in 2008 with two mini-series’ arriving in 2010 and 2011, with a number of other specials published throughout the 2010s.

Brubaker and Phillips released the original graphic novel My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies in 2018, which would ultimately reveal a character set in the Criminal universe.

The success of that book then lead to Criminal re-launching as a monthly series starting in 2019.

She is part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless (Halper), ‘who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with’

Mallory is also described as, ‘a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will bring her and her entire crew into the danger zone’ 

The original comic series originally debuted in October 2006 as a 10-issue series that was later published as two trade paperbacks.

Brubaker, Phillips and Harper will serve as executive producers with Sarah Carbiener and Philipp Barnett.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel, Mississippi Grind) have also signed on to direct first four episodes. 

Clarke is best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, though she returned to the small screen last year in Marvel’s Secret Invasion.’

She is also slated to play Jean Kerr, the wife of Cold War Senator Joseph McCarthy in the biopic McCarthy alongside Michael Shannon as the title character.