Thursday, May 8, 2025

Casting News - LeAnn Rimes and Kimberly Williams-Paisley to Co-Star on ABC's '9-1-1: Nashville'; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - May 8, 2025

ABC's 9-1-1: Nashville; AppleTV+'s 12 12 12; and Hulu's Reasonable Doubt.






ABC's 9-1-1: NASHVILLE
  • LeAnn Rimes and Kimberly Williams-Paisley will co-star on the upcoming 9-1-1 spinoff starring Chris O'Donnell and Jessica Capshaw. Rimes has received seven Grammy Award nominations - winning two in 1997, including Best New Artist. Williams-Paisley previously starred for seven seasons in ABC's According to Jim and recurred on ABC's Nashville.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
APPLE TV+'s 12 12 12
  • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson has joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. This marks his third consecutive role on AppleTV+ after his recurring roles on the second season of Severance and the first season of Your Friends & Neighbors. He also recurred on HBO's Somebody Somewhere.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing.
HULU's REASONABLE DOUBT
  • Kyle Bary, Rumer Willis, Brandee Evans, Richard Brooks, April Parker Jones and Keith Arthur Bolden have booked recurring roles on the drama's upcoming third season. Bary previously recurred on Netflix's Ginny & Georgia and Max's Rap Sh!t. Willis starred in the fourth season of FOX's Empire and won Season 20 of ABC's Dancing With the Stars. Evans currently stars in Starz's P-Valley, which has been renewed for a third season. Brooks starred for four seasons in BET's Being Mary Jane and recurred on ABC's 9-1-1. Jones starred for four seasons in OWN's If Loving You Is Wrong and recurred on Peacock's Bel-Air. Bolden recurred on Prime Video's Clean Slate and Netflix's Cobra Kai.
  • Bary will play Ozzie, a household name since his childhood when he starred in a long-running sitcom and is now up for a franchise role. He comes to Jax (Emayatzy Corinealdi) with a dilemma that turns messy quickly.
  • Willis will play Wendy, Ozzie's stylist and confident girlfriend.
  • Evans will play Monica, Ozzie's quick, sharp and professional agent.
  • Brooks will play Eddie, a ghost from Jax's past who resurfaces, bringing with him a whirlwind of unresolved tension that threatens to unravel everything she's worked so hard to build.
  • Jones will play Rosie, Ozzie's imperious and authoritative momager.
  • Bolden will play Sal, Ozzie's father who is nominally in charge of his son's movie career.