Friday, August 15, 2014

Casting News - 'The Royals' Adds Joan Collins; Connie Nielsen to Recur on 'The Good Wife'; Plus 12 More Updates!

Casting News - August 15, 2014

ABC's Cristela & Revenge; CBS' CSI, Elementary & The Good Wife; The CW's The Messengers; E!'s The Royals; FX's Anger Management; HBO's Show Me a Hero; NBC's About a Boy, The Blacklist & The Mysteries of Laura; Netflix's Orange Is the New Black; and Showtime's Shameless.



NBC's ABOUT A BOY
  • Jacob Hopkins (The Goldbergs) will guest star on the second season premiere of the hit comedy. He will play Eddie, the leader of Marcus' (Benjamin Stockham) new group.
ABC's CRISTELA
  • Justine Lupe (Francis Ha) has joined the cast of the upcoming comedy series created by and starring Cristela Alonzo. She will play Maddie, an intern at the law firm.
FX's ANGER MANAGEMENT
  • Michael Gross (Family Ties) has booked a recurring role on the Charlie Sheen sitcom. He will play a psychic therapist who Charlie (Sheen) goes to for relationship advice.
NBC's THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA
  • Switched at Birth alum Gilles Marini will guest star on an upcoming episode of the new procedural. He will play a fashion designer with connections to a murder victim who ends up reinventing Laura (Debra Messing) into a runway-ready fashion model.
NBC's THE BLACKLIST
  • Lee Tergesen (Oz, The Americans) has joined the cast of the hit drama. First appearing in the second season premiere, he will play Frank Hyland, husband to Naomi Hyland (guest star Mary-Louise Parker).
NETFLIX's ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
  • Comedian Mike Birbiglia has been cast in a recurring role on the prison dramedy's upcoming third season. Details on his character are being kept under wraps.
CBS' CSI
  • Patricia Arquette will return to the long-running procedural for a fall episode before toplining the series' forthcoming spinoff at midseason. She plays Special Agent Avery Ryan, the head of the FBI's Cyber Crime Division. Her episode is slated to air November 2.
HBO's SHOW ME A HERO
  • James Belushi (According to Jim), Terry Kinney (Oz) and Michael Stahl-David (My Generation) have joined the cast of the upcoming miniseries starring Oscar Isaac and Catherine Keener. Belushi will play Angelo R. Martinelli, an affable old political hand and six-term Yonkers mayor who argued to comply with the judge's order and lost his seat as a result. Kinney will play Peter Smith, the Yonkers Housing Authority's director who quietly and delicately waded through the political and bureaucratic morass to ensure that the public housing was built. Stahl-David will play James Surdoval, the political consultant who helped guide Nick's (Isaac) political career and became the man to see in Yonkers as behind-the-scenes deal-maker.
E!'s THE ROYALS
  • Dynasty star Joan Collins will guest star on the upcoming drama starring Elizabeth Hurley. She will play the Grand Duchess of Oxford, the mother to Queen Helena (Hurley) who pops up with an entourage and an agenda.
CBS' ELEMENTARY
  • Michael Chernus (Orange Is the New Black, Manhattan) will appear in a November episode of the hit procedural. He will play Edwin Borstein, a brilliant computer engineer who approaches Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan (Lucy Liu) when he fears he's been the victim of intellectual espionage.
THE CW's THE MESSENGERS
  • Lauren Bowles (True Blood) and Navid Negahban (Homeland) will recur on the midseason drama. Bowles will play Senator Cindy Richards, a hard-working passionate politician driven by a painful personal past. Negahban will play a Middle Eastern prime minister whose responsibility of keeping peace in his volatile country weighs heavily on him.
CBS' THE GOOD WIFE
  • Connie Nielsen (Boss, The Following) has been tapped for a recurring role on the drama's upcoming sixth season. She will play Ramona, a smart, beautiful attorney with far-reaching connections within Cook County.
ABC's REVENGE
  • Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons) will guest star on the Season 4 premiere of the drama. She will play Phyllis, a fellow patient at the mental institution where Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) was unwillingly admitted.
SHOWTIME's SHAMELESS
  • Patrick Fischler (Mad Men, Lost) has booked a recurring role on the dramedy's upcoming fifth season. He will play Wade, a middle class man going to extraordinary lengths to keep his deceased son alive in spirit.