Fortitude returns for a second season shortly to Sky Atlantic, and there are a whole host of famous faces joining the cast.

First up, we'll start with the homegrown talent, as former Love/Hate start Robert Sheehan joins the cast, along with Rebellion and former Game of Thrones star Michelle Fairley. While Parminder Nagra (ER, Bend it Like Beckham) and Ken Stott (The Missing) will also join the cast.

They're in good company too and will be joining Hollywood star Dennis Quaid, who you'll know from the likes of The Day After Tomorrow and Vantage Point. (He was also Mr Meg Ryan throughout the nineties.)

Fortitude is set in a beautiful Arctic town where crime rate was pretty much zero until last year's first season when the town was rocked to its core by a violent murder.

The Simon Donald drama will return to this community for the upcoming second season where there will be another mysterious death to rattle the residents of Fortitude.

Returning cast members include Sofie Gråbøl, Richard Dormer, Luke Treadaway, Darren Boyd, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Mia Jexen, Alexandra Moen, Verónica Echegui, Sienna Guillory and Ramon Tikaram.

No word yet on who the cast newbies will be playing but we will keep you updated. You can catch season two of Fortitude on Sky Atlantic later this year.

Via Deadline