Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Casting News - Mary-Louise Parker to Recur on 'Mr. Mercedes'; Matthew Goode Boards 'The Crown'; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - January 24, 2017

Audience's Mr. Mercedes; NBC's The Blacklist; Netflix's The Crown; and Showtime's The Chi.





AUDIENCE's MR. MERCEDES
  • Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker has landed a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway. She will play Janey Patterson, the younger sister of the late Olivia Trelawney. Her no-nonsense but charming attitude radiates, as does her physical beauty. She's emotionally mature, strong-willed and totally winning.
NETFLIX's THE CROWN
  • Matthew Goode (The Good Wife, Downton Abbey) has joined the cast of the drama's upcoming second season. He will play Antony Armstrong-Jones, aka Lord Snowdon, the society photographer who was married to Princess Margaret (Vanessa Kirby) from 1960 to 1978.
NBC's THE BLACKLIST
  • Melora Hardin (The Office, Transparent) will appear in an upcoming episode of the drama's fourth season. She will play Isabella Stone, a socialite by day and character assassin by night. She is a ruthless criminal who will obliterate a target by using any means necessary, including scandal, public humiliation, extortion and theft.
SHOWTIME's THE CHI
  • Jacob Latimore (Sleight) and Yolanda Ross (The Get Down) have been cast as series regulars on the upcoming drama created by Lena Waithe. Latimore will play Emmett, an entrepreneurial ladies' man until he's stuck solo parenting his toddler age son and forced to be responsible for someone else. Ross will play Jada, a full-time nurse and single mother to Emmett. While she takes a tough love approach to Emmett's first steps into fatherhood, Jada is beginning to explore a coming of age of her own. They replace Tequan Richmond and Aisha Hinds respectively, who played the roles in the original pilot.