The Asset cast and character guide: Who plays whom in the latest Netflix Danish crime thriller

The Asset, the Danish crime thriller, streamed on Netflix around the world on October 27, 2025. The six-episode miniseries follows Clara Dessau's Teaa police cadet turned secret operative, who has to infiltrate a criminal network and befriend the mastermind's wifeAshley. Over six episodes, we see Tea question her mission and her sense of self.

The dense series stands out from other espionage thrillers because, instead of action, The Asset has a restrained and realistic storyline in the spy genre. Over six episodes, we see Tea learn something new that changes her perspective on her mission. Thus, the writers of the show aim to explore the mental state of secret agents who regularly have to go undercover with secret identities for missions.

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Who are the members of Netflix's The Asset Cast?

Here are the actors in The Asset's cast:

• Clara Dessau (Tea)

Young actress Clara Dessau is playing the protagonist of Netflix's The Asset, Tea. At the start of the thriller, Tea is introduced as a police cadet. However, her life takes a dark turn when the young police cadet is chosen for an unusual mission, where she has to go undercover. The Danish intelligence agency, PET, handpicks Tea to take up a fake identity as a jeweler.

Her mission is to infiltrate a crime organization to befriend the wife of the boss, Ashley, and gather intelligence to use against it. What starts as a simple undercover mission becomes more and more complicated as she gets more and more involved.

• Maria Cordsen (Ashley)

The secondary protagonist, Ashley, is the wife of the show's central antagonist, Miran. The Danish intelligence is unsure whether Ashley is involved in Miran's criminal operations or not. While Tea looks at her just as a means to get closer to Miran, the former gets closer to Ashley over six episodes after witnessing her suffering. Thus, the Netflix series is also about Tea trying her best to help Ashley.

• Afshin Firouzi (Miran)

Miran presents himself as a legitimate businessman, but the Danish government suspects him, and this is why they decide to go ahead with the undercover operation against him. He is finally arrested at the end, and his wife and their daughter Sofia are freed from him, but the conclusion is still bittersweet for Tea.

• Nicolas Bro (Folke)

Based on the trailer, we can see that Folke seems to be Tea's handler, who pushes her to stick to the mission.

• Arian Kashef (Bambi)

Apart from Ashley, Miran trusts only his brother Bambi. His death marks a turning point in the series, which pushes Miran towards paranoia. This is what results in Miran's arrest in the sixth episode.

"The aspiring police cadet, Tea, goes undercover as a jeweler to infiltrate a brutal criminal environment that has eluded the grasp of the intelligence service for some time. Adopting a completely new identity, she must befriend the criminal mastermind’s wife, Ashley, to gather crucial intelligence. As Tea gets closer to Ashley and witnesses the grim reality of her life under her husband's control and within his criminal cobweb, doubts emerge about where her loyalty truly lies."

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If you are in the mood to watch a crime thriller with some dramatic stakes, catch this series on Netflix.

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