| Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Rufus Sewell | Aurelio Zen | 3 |
| Ben Miles | Amedeo Colonna | 3 |
| Caterina Murino | Tania Moretti | 3 |
| Francesco Quinn | Gilberto Nieddu | 3 |
| Catherine Spaak | Donata | 3 |
| Garry Cooper | Angelo | 3 |
| Ed Stoppard | Vincenzo Fabri | 3 |
| Anthony Higgins | Eduardo Guerchini | 3 |
| Stanley Townsend | Moscati | 3 |
| Vincent Riotta | Giorgio de Angelis | 3 |
| Sargon Yelda | Romizi | 3 |
| Nathalie Rapti Gomez | Maria | 3 |
| Julie Cox | Mara | 1 |
| Francis Magee | Giulio / Avel Vasko | 1 |
| Greg Wise | Renato Favelloni | 1 |
| Roberto Nobile | Judge Corrado Bertolini | 1 |
| Adrian Schiller | Giuseppe Bini | 1 |
| Katrine De Candole | Ana Bini | 1 |
| Peter Guinness | Tito Spadola | 1 |
| Joseph Long | Mario | 1 |
| Gregg Chillin | Pepe Spadola | 1 |
| Valentina Cervi | Arianna von Falkenhayn | 1 |
| Cosima Shaw | Nadia Pirlo | 1 |
| Enzo Squillino Jr. | Fellini | 1 |
| Allan Corduner | Michelangelo Gattuso | 1 |
| Hilton McRae | Massimo Colonn | 1 |
| Franco Trevisi | Cardinal | 1 |
| Julie Cox | 0 | |
| Callum Blue | 0 | |
| Valentina Cervi | 0 |