Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Casting News - 'Person of Interest' Adds Blair Brown; Jeffrey Dean Morgan is 'Marilyn's DiMaggio; Plus 9 More Updates!

Casting News - November 25, 2014

BBC America's Orphan Black; CBS' CSI & Person of Interest; The CW's Hart of Dixie; FOX's New Girl; Lifetime's Marilyn; MTV's Faking It; NBC's Undateable; Syfy's Childhood's End; USA's Sirens & Suits; and WGN America's Outsiders.



USA's SIRENS and SUITS
  • Sirens will premiere its 13-episode second season on Tuesday, January 27 at 10/9c. Suits will return for the final six episodes of its fourth season on Wednesday, January 28 at 10/9c.
MTV's FAKING IT
  • Chloe Bridges (The Carrie Diaries, Pretty Little Liars) will appear on the second half of the comedy's second season. She will play Zita Cruz, an effortlessly cool socialite who befriends Liam (Gregg Sulkin) when they both intern at Skwerkel.
FOX's NEW GIRL
  • Meaghan Rath (Being Human, Kingdom) will appear on an upcoming episode of the comedy's fourth season. She will play May, who runs into Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) when the gang goes on a Valentine's bar crawl - and sparks will fly immediately.
CBS' CSI
  • George Eads, who has played Nick Stokes on the series since the pilot, will exit the procedural at the end of its current fifteenth season. It's currently unclear how the drama will write out the character.
NBC's UNDATEABLE
  • Good Luck Charlie star Bridgit Mendler has joined the comedy's upcoming second season as a new series regular. She will play a confident and optimistic new waitress at the bar who manages to stand tall even when Detroit continually knocks her down.
BBC AMERICA's ORPHAN BLACK
  • James Frain (Intruders), Ksenia Solo (Lost Girl), Kyra Harper (Warehouse 13) and Earl Pastko (Murdoch Mysteries) have joined the drama's upcoming third season. Frain will play Ferdinand, a well-educated cleaner who is a powerful player in a secretive, multi-national political faction that operates with questionable ethics and a ruthless approach. Solo will play Shay, a soulful and compassionate holistic healer who befriends Cosima. Harper will play Dr. Coady, a ruthless doctor and advisor to the military. Pastko will play Bulldog, Ferdinand's silent, imposing and violent personal bodyguard.
CBS' PERSON OF INTEREST
  • Blair Brown (Fringe) will appear on an upcoming episode of the drama's fourth season. She will play Emma, an elegant and warm former public school teacher. After Emma was forced into early retirement, a jury summons brings the promise of excitement back into her life.
WGN AMERICA's OUTSIDERS
  • Kyle Callner (American Sniper) has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming drama. He will play Hasil, a man with deep wisdom and intense emotional presence, which allows him to be able to look into people's souls and see so much more than anyone else.
LIFETIME's MARILYN
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Magic City, Grey's Anatomy) has been tapped to co-star as Joe DiMaggio on the upcoming miniseries. When the two met, Marilyn Monroe (Kelli Garner) was a star on the rise and DiMaggio had already retired from baseball and wanted a wife who would stay at home and raise children. He was incensed and embarrassed by her sex-goddess image. Their nine-month marriage was a dizzying ride of obsession and jealousy, sexual fever and the chill of emotional abandonment.
THE CW's HART OF DIXIE
  • The CW has bumped up the dramedy's fourth season premiere to Monday, December 15 at 8/7c. leading into the fall finale of Jane the Virgin. Following the premiere, the series will return to its regular time slot on Friday, January 9 at 8/7c.
SYFY's CHILDHOOD'S END
  • Daisy Betts (Last Resort, Chicago Fire) will co-star on the upcoming miniseries starring Mike Vogel and Charles Dance. She will play Ellie, a Tribeca Arts graduate engaged to marry Ricky (Vogel).