Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Casting News - Adam Arkin to Direct & Recur on 'Fargo'; Jimmi Simpson Joins 'Hap and Leonard'; Plus 4 More Updates!

Casting News - April 22, 2015

ABC Family's Recovery Road; FX's Fargo; MTV's Scream; SundanceTV's Hap and Leonard; and WGN America's Manhattan & Underground.





MTV's SCREAM
  • Amelia Rose Blaire (True Blood) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama series. She will play Piper Shay, the smart, quirky host of a wildly popular podcast who comes to town to investigate the recent deaths.
ABC FAMILY's RECOVERY ROAD
  • Haley Lu Richardson (Ravenswood) has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming drama series. She will play Ellie Dennis, a smart, ambitious and bitchy vixen who is Maddie's (Jessica Sula) friend and a member of the Speakeasy, her school's secret society.
FX's FARGO
  • In addition to directing two episodes of the upcoming second season, Adam Arkin (Justified) has signed on to appear onscreen in a recurring role. He will play Hamish Broke, a mid-level manager in the Kansas City crime syndicate.
WGN AMERICA's MANHATTAN
  • Griffin Dunne (House of Lies, Red Band Society) will appear in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming second season. He will play Woodrow Lorentzen, a tenacious and self-destructive newspaper reporter who gets inside the gates at Los Alamos, discovering not only the scoop of a lifetime, but a chance to turn his life around.
WGN AMERICA's UNDERGROUND
  • Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has been cast as a regular on the upcoming drama, replacing Devon Gummersall who was originally cast in the role. He will play John Hawkes, an abolitionist lawyer who will break the law he's sworn to uphold in order to serve a greater good.
SUNDANCETV's HAP AND LEONARD
  • Jimmi Simpson (House of Cards) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama as a series regular. He will play Soilder, a mysterious and most likely psychopathic criminal who along with his Amazonian girlfriend threatens the plans of the protagonists.