Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Casting News - FOX's 'Empire' Adds Kid Cudi; Starz's 'Black Sails' to End with Season 4; Plus 12 More Updates!

Casting News - July 20, 2016

ABC's black-ish, How to Get Away With Murder & Once Upon a Time; Amazon's Sneaky Pete; CBS' Code Black; The CW's Supergirl & The Vampire Diaries; E!'s The Royals; El Rey's From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series; FOX's Empire & Lucifer; Hulu's Dimension 404; NBC's Chicago P.D.; and Starz's Black Sails.


E!'s THE ROYALS
  • Genevieve Gaunt has been promoted to series regular for the drama's upcoming third season. She plays Wilhelmina aka Willow, Liam's new love interest. Additionally, Damian Hurley and Jules Knight have booked recurring roles on the new season. Hurley will play Prince Hansel von Lichtenstein. Knight will play Spencer Hoenigsberg, the new Lord Chamberlain to the Queen of England.
FOX's EMPIRE
  • Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi has joined the drama's upcoming third season in a recurring role. He will play Gram, an independent musician who is a new rival to Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray) who starts dating Tiana (Serayah McNeill).
AMAZON's SNEAKY PETE
  • Michael Drayer (Mr. Robot, Vinyl) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Giovanni Ribisi. He will play Eddie Josapovic, Marius' (Ribisi) younger brother and the only person that Marius truly cares about. An expert card dealer and a beloved fixture at Vince's tables, Eddie has always looked to his big brother for guidance. But when he's taken hostage by his own employer, Eddie is forced to rely on his own wits to survive.
FOX's LUCIFER
  • A few weeks after joining the drama, Tricia Helfer has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming second season. She plays Charlotte, Lucifer (Tom Ellis) and Amenadiel's (D.B. Woodside) mother who has been trapped in Hell for thousands of years by her ex-husband, God.
ABC's HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
  • Dexter alum Lauren Vélez has landed a major recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. She will play the President of Middleton University, where Annalise (Viola Davis) works as a professor. She is further described as self-assured, friendly, warm and diplomatic.
STARZ's BLACK SAILS
  • The premium cable network has announced that the hit drama starring Toby Stephens will end with its upcoming fourth season. The 10 episode final season will debut in early 2017. Series co-creator Jonathan E. Steinberg said, "It's a rare privilege in television to be given the kind of creative freedom we've enjoyed on this show over the last four years. While it was a difficult decision for us to make this season our last, we simply couldn't imagine anything beyond it that would make for a better ending to the story nor a more natural handoff to Treasure Island."
CBS' CODE BLACK
  • Camryn Manheim (Person of Interest), Eric Roberts (Suits) and Alexandra Grey (Jess Like Me) will appear on the drama's upcoming second season. Manheim will play Alice, the emotionally distraught wife of a truck driver who is injured in a horrific accident. Roberts will play Vince, Mario's (Ben Hollingsworth) opportunistic but sympathetic father who tries to hustle his son into an investment. Grey will play Beth, a strong and confident transgender woman whose stomach pains force her to confront her past.
EL REY's FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES
  • The hit drama starring D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz will return for its third season on Tuesday, September 6 at 9/8c. The new season will follow the Gecko brothers into the vortex of the culebra underworld, as they are forced to assemble an unlikely crew to battle new enemies determined to take them down.
NBC's CHICAGO P.D.
  • Li Jun Li (Quantico, Minority Report) has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fourth season - with a series regular option. She will play Julie Tay, the uniformed officer who is now partnered with Burgess (Marina Squerciati).
HULU's DIMENSION 404
  • Lorenza Izzo (Feed the Beast), Daniel Zovatto (Fear the Walking Dead) and Tom Noonan (12 Monkeys) have joined the upcoming anthology series. Izzo will play Val, a confident, brash upstart in the world of competitive video games. She discovers a mysterious energy drink that can slow down time and give her the competitive edge she thinks she needs. Zovatto will play Zach, a smooth-talking heartthrob who can not only sell people on the merits of the brand new and terrifyingly real "Cinethrax" movie format, but gain the adoration of Chloe (Sarah Hyland). Noonan will play Bob, the NSA's unusual, most-valued secret agent who receives counseling from a military psychologist (Constance Wu) in order to help him overcome his performance issues and stop a deadly terrorist attack.
THE CW's SUPERGIRL
  • Containment star Chris Wood has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming second season. Details about his role are being kept under wraps. However, the series cryptically teases that he will be a playing a surprising DC Comics character and that he'll debut early in the second season.
ABC's BLACK-ISH
  • Tony winner Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) has booked a major recurring role on the comedy's upcoming third season. He will play Johan, Rainbow's (Tracee Ellis Ross) brother. He will frequently be a thorn in Dre's (Anthony Anderson) side. All of the kids love him as well - except for Diane (Marsai Martin).
THE CW's THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
  • Allison Scagliotti (Warehouse 13, Stitchers) has landed a recurring role on the drama's upcoming eighth season. She will play Georgie, an occult reach intern driven by a horrific darkness in her past. She channels her existential anxieties into a new field of study that will force her to confront her deepest fears.
ABC's ONCE UPON A TIME
  • Craig Horner (Legend of the Seeker, Hindsight) will appear in an episode of the drama's upcoming sixth season. He will play the Count of Monte Cristo. All other details about how his character will be incorporated into the world are being kept under wraps.