Thursday, October 9, 2014

Casting News - Victor Garber and Andy Mientus Join 'The Flash'; 'Suits' Adds Troian Bellisario; Plus 10 More Updates!

Casting News - October 9, 2014

ABC's Forever & Nashville; ABC Family's Baby Daddy, Melissa & Joey & Pretty Little Liars; Amazon's Bosch; The CW's The Flash; FX's Sons of Anarchy; NBC's Chicago P.D.; Netflix's Narcos; TBS' Your Family or Mine; and USA's Suits.



AMAZON's BOSCH
  • Sarah Clarke (24) and Christina Ferraro have booked recurring roles on the upcoming drama starring Titus Welliver. Clarke will play Bosch's (Welliver) ex-wife, a former FBI profiler who's now re-married and working in Vegas as a professional poker player. Ferraro will play Mary Andrada, a coroner's investigator who assists Bosch on various crime scenes.
ABC's FOREVER
  • Jane Seymour (Franklin & Bash) will appear in a November episode of the freshman procedural. She will play Maureen, Abraham's (Judd Hirsch) twice ex-wife, whom he can't seem to stay away from despite past proof that their sexual tension and fiery passion can be toxic.
THE CW's THE FLASH
  • Victor Garber (Alias, Sleepy Hollow) has landed a recurring role on the hit drama as Dr. Martin Stein - aka one half of the heroic entity known as Firestorm. Stein is a brilliant but arrogant nuclear physicist who has sacrificed everything, including a marriage, for his work in transmutation. After he discovers that the malfunctioning particle accelerator has fused him with the younger, more impulsive Ronnie Raymond (Robbie Amell), the doctor races to find a way to separate them before it's too late.
  • Smash alum Andy Mientus has also been cast on the drama today. He will play Hartley Rathaway aka villain Pied Piper. Hartley is a genius who used to work at S.T.A.R. Labs until a falling out with Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh). The particle accelerator explosion robbed him of his hearing, but inspired him to create a series of sonic weapons that he uses in an effort to punish Wells by destroying his new protege: The Flash (Grant Gustin).
TBS' YOUR FAMILY OR MINE
  • Cynthia Stevenson (Life Unexpected) has been cast in the finale regular role on the upcoming comedy. She will play Jan Durnin, Kelli's (Kat Foster) mother, who loves her eccentric husband and her three daughters but wishes two of them didn't still live at home.
NETFLIX's NARCOS
  • Ana De La Reguera (Eastbound & Down) has been tapped to recur on the upcoming drama. She will play Elisa, a quiet, beautiful woman who hides her good looks and athletic build in baggy clothes and shaggy hair. She is a real woman of the Comuna, working with children and teaching them dance, with secret ties to guerilla extremists.
USA's SUITS
  • Pretty Little Liars star Troian Bellisario will appear in an upcoming episode of the drama's fourth season - which stars her real-life fiancé Patrick J. Adams. She will play Claire, an idealistic law student and volunteer at a social services law clinic.
ABC FAMILY's BABY DADDY
  • Chasing Life co-star Aisha Dee will guest in an early 2015 episode of the hit comedy. She will play Olivia, Tucker's (Tahj Mowry) ex-wife who can play innocent but is definitely ruthless when she wants to be.
ABC's NASHVILLE
  • Anthony Ruivivar (Beauty and the Beast) has been tapped for a guest-starring role in an upcoming episode of the musical drama. HE will play a hard-hitting Rolling Stone reporter who is unafraid to ask Rayna (Connie Britton) the tough questions.
NBC's CHICAGO P.D.
  • As the World Turns alum Michael Park will appear in a three-episode arc on the drama's second season. He will play Asher Roslyn, a slick, confident diamond dealer who hires Antonio (Jon Seda) for after-hours private security.
ABC FAMILY's MELISSA & JOEY
  • Valerie Harper has booked a guest spot on an early episode of the comedy's fourth season. She will play Aunt Bunny, who visits Mel (Melissa Joan Hart) and Joe (Joey Lawrence) and sees her gift in person - a gift Mel doesn't want.
FX's SONS OF ANARCHY
  • Angel alum Charisma Carpenter has been tapped for a guest role on the hit drama's final season. She will play Carol, a conservative administrative director at a medical facility.
ABC FAMILY's PRETTY LITTLE LIARS
  • Lauren Tom (Supernatural), Oliver Kieran Jones (Episodes) and Anne-Marie Johnson (Girlfriends) will recur on the drama's fifth season. Tom will play Rebecca, an attorney who gets involved with the Liars. Jones will play Colin, a charming friend of Melissa's (Torrey DeVitto) who Spencer (Troian Bellisario) comes in contact with. Johnson will play Claire, a pageant coordinator who comes to Rosewood looking for girls to participate in a local pageant.