Thursday, April 29, 2021

Casting News - Toni Collette Set as Female Lead in 'The Staircase'; Greg Kinnear Joins 'In With the Devil'; Plus 4 More Updates!

Casting News - April 29, 2021

Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; AppleTV+'s Five Days at Memorial & In With the Devil; The CW's Walker; HBO's The White House Plumbers; and HBO Max's The Staircase.




APPLE TV+'s FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL
  • Julie Ann Emery will co-star on the upcoming limited series starring Vera Farmiga. She previously starred for three seasons in AMC's Preacher. She has also recurred on FX's Fargo, AMC's Better Call Saul, TNT's Major Crimes, Hulu's Catch-22 and Amazon's Bosch.
  • She will play Diane Robichaux, an assistant administrator for LifeCare, who finds herself deeply involved in the events following Hurricane Katrina.
AMAZON's THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL
  • Reid Scott and Gideon Glick have landed recurring roles on the comedy's upcoming fourth season. Scott previously starred for seven seasons in HBO's Veep. Glick received a Tony Award nomination in 2019 for his featured performance in the play To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
APPLE TV+'s IN WITH THE DEVIL
  • Greg Kinnear and Sepideh Moafi have been cast as series regulars on the upcoming limited series starring Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser and Ray Liotta. Kinnear was nominated for an Academy Award in 1997 for the film As Good As It Gets. He next stars in Starz's upcoming comedy Shining Vale opposite Courteney Cox. Moafi previously starred for one season in HBO's The Deuce and one season in Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q.
  • Kinnear will play Brian Miller, the chief investigator for the Vermillion County Sheriff's Office.
  • Moafi will play Lauren McCauley, an FBI agent.
HBO's THE WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS
  • Lena Headey is returning to HBO with a key role on the upcoming limited series starring Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux and Domhnall Gleeson. She previously starred for eight seasons in HBO's Game of Thrones, receiving five Emmy Award nominations for her performance. She recently signed on to star in and executive produce the Spectrum drama Beacon 23.
  • She will play Dorothy Hunt, a mother of four and active CIA asset. She tries to hold her family together while entangling herself in her husband E. Howard Hunt's (Harrelson) catastrophic misadventures.
HBO MAX's THE STAIRCASE
  • Toni Collette will play the female lead on the upcoming limited series starring Colin Firth. She received an Academy Award nomination for the 1999 film The Sixth Sense and a Tony Award nomination in 2000 for the musical The Wild Party. She also starred for four seasons in Showtime's United States of Tara (winning an Emmy for her lead role in 2009) and in the Netflix limited series Unbelievable. She next stars in Netflix's upcoming drama Pieces of Her.
  • She will play Kathleen Peterson, a corporate executive, mother, stepmother of five and wife of Michael Peterson (Firth).
THE CW's WALKER
  • Odette Annable has been promoted to series regular on the drama's upcoming second season. She is currently recurring on the first season - appearing in six episodes so far. She previously starred in the third season of The CW's Supergirl and the second season of CBS All Access' Tell Me a Story.
  • She plays Geri, an old friend of Walker's (Jared Padalecki) who runs a bar.