Saturday, December 20, 2014

Casting News - 'American Crime Story' Books David Schwimmer; Meg Steedle Joins 'The Mysteries of Laura'; Plus 1 More Update!

Casting News - December 20, 2014

FX's American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson; Lifetime's Marilyn; and NBC's The Mysteries of Laura.





LIFETIME's MARILYN
  • Embeth Davidtz (Mad Men) and Jack Noseworthy (Killing Kennedy) have joined the cast of the upcoming miniseries starring Kelli Garner and Susan Sarandon. No details were immediately released about the characters they will be playing.
FX's AMERICAN CRIME STORY: THE PEOPLE V. OJ SIMPSON
  • Friends alum David Schwimmer has been tapped to play defense attorney Robert Kardashian on the upcoming anthology series starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sarah Paulson.
NBC's THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA
  • Meg Steedle (Boardwalk Empire, NCIS) has joined the procedural as a series regular starting with the fifteenth episode of the season. She will play Francesca "Frankie" Pulaski, a young detective whose sunny demeanor and optimism gets her labeled as naive and impressionable, though Laura (Debra Messing) soon discovers that she uses that disposition to cover a dark secret.