Award-winning actress Gabrielle Creevy has told how she loved being able to play “a very Welsh assassin” in the upcoming new season of spy thriller Black Doves.

Creevy plays the role of Eleanor in the Netflix drama, starring alongside actors including Keira Knightley, Sarah Lancashire and Ben Whishaw.

The Port Talbot-born actress told Lucy Owen on BBC Radio Wales she had auditioned with a Welsh accent “and they kind of loved it”, with the show writing in extra details to add to her character.

“I’m kind of thrilled that they went with it because as a kid growing up and watching things, there was never that, there was never the Welsh accent,” she said.

Creevy said that after she auditioned, Black Doves writer Joe Barton wrote the dialogue to suit her, and “we added all of the stuff about Bridgend”.

It was “very refreshing to be that Welsh”, she said.

“I just love Wales and I just love taking that with me – it’s so nice.”

She said it was also good that her fellow cast member Ella Lily Hyland was able to use her Irish accent in the drama.

Creevy said she was starstruck working alongside such seasoned performers and watching them do their thing was “like a masterclass”.