Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Casting News - 'House of Cards' Adds Joel Kinnaman; Dennis Quaid & Michelle Fairley Board 'Fortitude'; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - February 2, 2016

Hulu's Shut Eye; NBC's The Night Shift; Netflix's House of Cards & The Ranch; and Pivot's Fortitude.





PIVOT's FORTITUDE
  • Dennis Quaid, Michelle Fairley, Parminder Nagra, Robert Sheehan and Ken Stott have joined the cast of the drama's upcoming second season. No details were immediately released about the characters they will be playing. However, Season 2's brand new story will see the Arctic town of Fortitude gripped by explosive events, including a fresh murder that rocks the community and plunges it into turmoil.
NETFLIX's HOUSE OF CARDS
  • The Killing alum Joel Kinnaman will appear in the drama's upcoming fourth season. No details were immediately released about the character he will be playing. However, Netflix's official Twitter account released a first-look photo of him with Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood.
HULU's SHUT EYE
  • David Zayas (Dexter) and Isabella Rosselini (Blue Velvet) have landed series regular roles on the upcoming drama starring Jeffrey Donovan and KaDee Strickland. Zayas will play Eduardo Bernal, a powerful businessman who comes to Charlie (Donovan) for spiritual advice. Rosselini will play Rita, the matriarch of the Romani clan who is drop-dead gorgeous and as vicious as she is beautiful. Dangerous and sadistic, she takes pleasure in making people pay for their foibles.
NETFLIX's THE RANCH
  • Megyn Price (Rules of Engagement) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson. She will play Mary, the love interest for Masterson's character.
NBC's THE NIGHT SHIFT
  • Tanaya Beatty (Lewis and Clark, Arctic Air) has joined the drama's upcoming third season as a new series regular. She will play Dr. Shannon Rivera, a recent med school graduate who volunteered at the reservation clinic where she impressed Dr. Jordan Alexander (Jill Flint), who recruited her to intern at San Antonio Memorial Hospital.