Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Casting News - Nikki Reed Joins 'Sleepy Hollow' as Betsy Ross; 'Hap & Leonard' Adds Christina Hendricks; Plus 8 More Updates!

Casting News - July 15, 2015

ABC's Castle & Quantico; Amazon's The Man in the High Castle; The CW's The Flash & The Vampire Diaries; FOX's Sleepy Hollow; FX's American Horror Story: Hotel; NBC's The Night Shift; SundanceTV's Hap and Leonard; and WGN America's Manhattan.



AMAZON's THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE
  • Tao Okamoto (Hannibal) has been cast in a recurring role on the upcoming drama's first season. She will play Betty. No other details about her role were immediately made available.
FOX's SLEEPY HOLLOW
  • Nikki Reed (Twilight, Thirteen) has joined the drama's upcoming third season as a new series regular. She will play Betsy Ross, a sexy woman with an unsuspecting physical prowess. She's the famous seamstress known and loved for sewing the nation's first flag by day, but by night she's a dynamic colonial insider, a secret operative within George Washington's mysterious ring of spies.
ABC's QUANTICO
  • Ballers star Anabelle Acosta has landed a recurring role on the upcoming drama's first season. She will play Nathalie Vazquez, a former cop from Laredo, Texas who is driven, kick-ass and fiercely competitive. She's almost mercenary in her focus and more interested in always coming out on top than in being a team player.
THE CW's THE FLASH
  • Veteran character actor Michael Ironside (Top Gun, Total Recall) will appear on an upcoming episode of the drama's second season. He will play Lewis Snart, the estranged, abusive father of villains Leonard Snart (Wentworth Miller) and Lisa Snart (Peyton List). He is a cold-blooded, ruthless career criminal. Recently released from prison, he returns to Central City with a plan that will endanger both of his children.
WGN AMERICA's MANHATTAN
  • The second season of the period drama will debut on Tuesday, October 13 at 10/9c. - which moves the show away from the network's typical Sunday home for its original scripted programming. The second season stars John Benjamin Hickey, Olivia Williams, Ashley Zukerman, Rachel Brosnahan, Daniel Stern, Katja Herbers, Harry Lloyd, Alexia Fast, Christopher Denham and Michael Chernus. New additions include William Petersen, Griffin Dunne and Mamie Gummer.
ABC's CASTLE
  • The Walking Dead alum Sunkrish Bala has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming eighth season. He will play Vikram Singh, a high-strung tech analyst with a complicated past.
SUNDANCETV's HAP AND LEONARD
  • Emmy nominee Christina Hendricks (Mad Men, Another Period) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Michael Kenneth Williams and James Purefoy. She will play Trudy, Hap's (Purefoy) ex-wife, who resurfaces after two years with a proposition that he can't refuse.
NBC's THE NIGHT SHIFT
  • After recurring throughout the first two seasons, Scott Wolf has been promoted to series regular for the drama's upcoming third season. He plays Dr. Scott Clemmens, a trauma surgeon caught in a love triangle with Jordan (Jill Flint) and TC (Eoin Macken).
THE CW's THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
  • Elizabeth Blackmore, Scarlett Byrne and Teressa Liane have been cast in recurring roles on the drama's upcoming seventh season. They will play Lily's (Annie Wersching) heretic daughters, Valerie, Nora and Mary Louise.
FX's AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL
  • Richard T. Jones (Hot Pursuit) has booked a major recurring role on the anthology series' upcoming fifth installment. He will play Detective Hahn, a Los Angeles police detective with the homicide department.