Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Casting News - 'Nashville' Adds Laura Benanti as Recurring; Krysten Ritter Joins 'The Blacklist'; Plus 9 More Updates!

Casting News - July 30, 2014

ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Nashville, ResurrectionScandal & Secrets & Lies; CBS' CSI; The CW's The Flash & Supernatural; NBC's Aquarius & The Blacklist; and USA's Covert Affairs.




CBS' CSI
  • Mark Valley (Human Target, Body of Proof) will recur on the veteran procedural's fifteenth season. He will play a private investigator who teams up with Finn (Elisabeth Shue) when his partner goes missing, and the time start to form a strong attraction.
  • In another upcoming episode, Shake It Up star Bella Thorne will appear as a very popular high school student who becomes the prime suspect when one of her classmates is murdered.
ABC's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Simon Kassianides (Quantum of Solace) has joined the drama's second season in a major recurring role. He will play Bakshi, a confident right-hard man who's not afraid to do the dirty work.
NBC's AQUARIUS
  • The Originals alum Claire Holt has joined the upcoming event series starring David Duchovny in a regular role. She will play Officer Charmain Tully, a beautiful young officer who works hard to be taken seriously - but her efforts thus far haven't paid off in the male-dominated LAPD of the 1960s.
NBC's THE BLACKLIST
  • NBC's forthcoming star of midseason comedy Mission Control Krysten Ritter has booked a guest spot on the hit drama's second season premiere. She will play a troubled data security firm analyst.
THE CW's THE FLASH
  • Kelly Frye (Rake) will guest star on the new drama series as Bette San Souci aka the villainous Plastique. First appearing in Episode 5, Bette is a bomb disposal expert who - following the incident at STAR Labs - now has the ability to turn any object into an explosive device.
USA's COVERT AFFAIRS
  • Shawn Doyle (Fargo) has landed a recurring role on the drama's current fifth season. He will play Aleksandre Balenko, a diplomat from Georgia who appears trustworthy at first but Annie (Piper Perabo) learns he has mysterious true intentions.
THE CW's SUPERNATURAL
  • Kim Rhodes and Brianna Buckmaster will reprise their roles as Sheriff Mills and Sheriff Donna Hanscum in the upcoming tenth season of the hit drama series.
ABC's RESURRECTION
  • Tony winner Donna Murphy (Passion, The King and I) has joined the drama's second season in a major recurring role. She will play a mysterious government agent who will be in charge of monitoring Agent Bellamy (Omar Epps) and the activities in Arcadia.
ABC's SCANDAL
  • Kelen Coleman - star of CBS' upcoming fall comedy The McCarthys - has booked a guest role on the Season 4 premiere of the hit drama. Like so much of Scandal's previous castings, no further details were made available on her role.
ABC's NASHVILLE
  • Tony winner Laura Benanti (Into the Woods, The Sound of Music Live!) will appear in a multi-episode arc on the third season of the country music drama. She will play Sadie Stone, an up-and-coming country star who befriends Rayna (Connie Britton).
ABC's SECRETS & LIES
  • Benjamin Ciaramello (Friday Night Lights) has been cast in a recurring on the midseason drama starring Ryan Phillippe. He will play Paul Murphy, Jess' (Natalie Martinez) husband and the murdered boy's father who's currently in the military and about to be deployed for the fifth time. He's constantly battling inner demons resulting from his time overseas.