Saturday, April 24, 2021

Casting News - 'Doom Patrol' Casts Members of the Sisterhood of Dada and the Dead Boy Detective Agency; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - April 24, 2021

HBO Max's Doom Patrol; and Netflix's Gentefied & The Lincoln Lawyer.






NETFLIX's THE LINCOLN LAWYER
  • Jamie McShane and Reggie Lee have landed recurring roles on the upcoming drama starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Neve Campbell. McShane previously starred for three seasons in Netflix's Bloodline, one season in FOX's The Passage and in the USA limited series Unsolved. Lee starred for six seasons in NBC's Grimm and currently stars in the second season of CBS' All Rise.
  • McShane will play Detective Lee Lankford, a cynical veteran of the police force who is working with Maggie (Campbell). He also has a contentious relationship with Mickey (Garcia-Rulfo).
  • Lee will play Angelo Soto, an intimidating, wealthy businessman who owns a string of successful nursing facilities. He's under investigation by the DA's office for possible illegal activity.
NETFLIX's GENTEFIED
  • Clarissa Thibeaux, Manuel Uriza, Ivana Rojas and Melinna Bobadilla have booked recurring roles on the comedy's upcoming second season. Thibeaux previously starred in the third season of Hulu's Runaways. Uriza has recurred on AMC's Better Call Saul, TNT's The Last Ship and FX's Snowfall. Rojas has guest starred on Netflix's Sneakerheads. Bobadilla has recurred on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black.
  • Thibeaux will play Bree Solano, a successful, queer advertising executive, specializing in finding emerging artists. She commands the boardroom with a suave attitude, and she'll charm you into buying seeds during a drought.
  • Uriza will play Ernesto Morales, Pop's (Joaquín Cosío) estranged, oldest son. By any measure, the personification of the American Dream, Pop has never forgiven him for moving his family from East LA to the calmer suburbs of Boise, Idaho. Unlike the rest of the family, Ernesto is the only one who can stand up to Pop, as their relationship reaches a boiling point.
  • Rojas will play Sarai Damian, an up-and-coming chef. She is career-focused, hella ambitious and a truth-teller. She knows what she wants and she isn't willing to compromise her dream for anyone. We meet her as she is about to be catapulted into her biggest career high, but it comes with a big price to pay.
  • Bobadilla will play Melinna Barragan, a fierce non-profit lawyer. She's down for her community, even if it means working pro-bono. If your prima with the big hoops who always got into fights got her law degree at ELAC - that would be Melinna. Passionate and fierce, she treats her clients like family.
HBO MAX's DOOM PATROL
  • Micah Joe Parker, Wynn Everett, Miles Mussenden, Anita Kalathara, Gina Hiraizumi, Ty Tennant, Sebastian Croft and Madalyn Horcher have been cast in recurring roles on the drama's upcoming third season. Parker has previously recurred on TNT's Mob City and The CW's The Vampire Diaries. Everett has recurred on ABC's Agent Carter, NBC's This Is Us and Netflix's Teenage Bounty Hunters. Mussenden starred in the first season of Freeform's Cloak & Dagger. Kalathara has guest starred on HBO's Room 104. Hiraizumi has guest starred on CBS' Hawaii Five-0, NBC's Good Girls and The CW's Dynasty. Tennant currently stars in War of the Worlds, which airs stateside on Epix. Croft has recurred on HBO's Game of Thrones and Showtime's Penny Dreadful. Horcher starred in YouTube's one-season drama Origin.
  • Parker will play Malcolm, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. He is a quiet, sensitive and thoughtful soul who would often rather be invisible than face this unforgiving world. 
  • Everett will play Shelley Byron aka The Fog, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. Supposedly a deadly terrorist, she is charming, seductive, poetic and a bit mad.
  • Mussenden will play Lloyd Jefferson aka Frenzy, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. A sculptor of strange life-like masks who is covered with tattoos and scars - the memories and injustices that immortalize his life - he is cryptic and stoic with a capacity for extreme devastation.
  • Kalathara will play Holly McKenzie aka Sleepwalk, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. A light-hearted ne'er do well, she knows where the best parties are. After a wild night of partying, she usually takes a nice long nap in the ice cream truck where she works, and if she is awoken mid-nap, there is hell to pay.
  • Hiraizumi will play Sachiko aka The Quiz, part of the Sisterhood of Dada. She is an enigmatic germaphobe whose crippling phobias mask awe-inspiring powers.
  • Tennant will play Edwin Payne, a member of the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Since dying 80 years ago due to a "clerical error," he has seen horrors no one could imagine.
  • Croft will play Charles Rowland, a member of the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Another long-dead lad who does his best to be chipper, though his death by hypothermia and neglect haunts him.
  • Horcher will play Crystal Palace, a sarcastic teenage medium whose only friends are Charles and Edwin.