Monday, July 14, 2025

Casting News - Bellamy Young Books Role on 'Brilliant Minds'; 'Memory of a Killer' Adds Richard Harmon; Plus 8 More Updates!

Casting News - July 14, 2025

ABC's High Potential; AppleTV+'s Untitled Liev Schreiber Drama; CBS' FBI; FOX's Memory of a Killer; FX's Love Story; HBO's Harry Potter; NBC's Brilliant Minds; Netflix's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder & Virgin River; and Prime Video's Bloodaxe.



NBC's BRILLIANT MINDS
  • Bellamy Young has booked a recurring role on the drama's upcoming second season. She previously starred for seven seasons in ABC's Scandal and two seasons in FOX's Prodigal Son.
  • She will play Dr. Amelia Frederick, the clinical director for a long-term mental healthcare facility, Hudson Oaks. She is well-acquainted with the woes of the mental healthcare system. But despite her years of hands-on experience in the field, Amelia isn't jaded. Instead, she is passionate about destigmatizing long-term inpatient treatment and finding a solution to give her patients the best future possible. She becomes a worthy adversary for Dr. Wolf (Zachary Quinto), and the two will go toe-to-toe this season.
FOX's MEMORY OF A KILLER
  • Richard Harmon will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli. He previously starred for seven seasons in The CW's The 100. He recently starred in the film Final Destination Bloodlines
  • He will play Joe, a hitman on the rise working for Angelo (Dempsey) and Dutch (Imperioli) in their clandestine crime business. He gets stuck with the grunt work - gathering recon and sorting getaway plans - but that puts him in prime position to witness Angelo's Alzheimer's decline. Joe knows he could make or break Angelo, but he also knows that choice could cost him everything.
HBO's HARRY POTTER
  • Rory Wilmot, Amos Kitson, Louise Brealey and Anton Lesser will appear in the upcoming drama based on the fantasy novels. Wilmot previously guest starred on CBS' FBI: International. Kitson will make his acting debut on the series. Brealey starred for two seasons in Channel 4's Back and two seasons in BBC Three's Such Brave Girls. Lesser recurred on HBO's Game of Thrones and Disney+'s Andor.
  • Wilmot will play Neville Longbottom. Kitson will play Dudley Dursley. Brealey will play Madam Rolanda Hooch. Lesser will play Garrick Ollivander.
CBS' FBI
  • Juliana Aidén Martinez has been cast as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming eighth season. She previously starred in the Netflix limited series Griselda and in the 26th season of NBC's Law & Order: SVU.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character she will be playing.
FX's LOVE STORY
  • Omari K. Chancellor has landed a recurring role on the upcoming limited series starring Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon. He previously guest starred on CBS' Elsbeth and appeared in the AppleTV+ film The Greatest Beer Run Ever.
  • He will play fashion designer Gordon Henderson. He was a close friend and former roommate of Carolyn Bessette (Pidgeon) as well as a former assistant of Calvin Klein (Alessandro Nivola) when Bessette handled public relations for the fashion house. He famously designed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s (Kelly) wedding suit for the 1986 nuptials, which launched the designer's bespoke collection. 
NETFLIX's VIRGIN RIVER
  • Austin Nichols is set for a recurring role on the drama's upcoming seventh season. He previously starred for three seasons in The CW's One Tree Hill and two seasons in AMC's The Walking Dead. He also recurred on Showtime's Ray Donovan, A&E's Bates Motel and The CW's Walker.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing. 
ABC's HIGH POTENTIAL
  • Mekhi Phifer has scored a recurring role on the drama's upcoming second season. He previously starred for six seasons in NBC's ER and three seasons in AppleTV+'s Truth Be Told. He also recurred on Hulu's Love, Victor.
  • While no character details were immediately announced, he will play a character who becomes involved in major crimes. 
APPLE TV+'s UNTITLED LIEV SCHREIBER DRAMA
  • Chrissy Metz has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz, Stephen Graham, Bill Camp and Rory Culkin. She previously starred for six seasons in NBC's This Is Us. She will next star in Netflix's upcoming drama The Hunting Wives, which will be released later this month.
  • She will play Ida, a single mother who struggles to make ends meet and faces a living nightmare after her children go missing.
NETFLIX's A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER
  • Misia Butler, Eden Hambelton Davies, Jack Rowan, Anna Brindle, Peter Sullivan, Freddie Thorp, Lu Corfield, Stephanie Street and Freddie England are new cast additions for the drama's upcoming second season.
  • They join returning cast members Emma Myers, Zain Iqbal, Henry Ashton, Asha Banks, Yali Topol Margalith and Jude Morgan-Collie.
  • After solving the Andie Bell case, Pip's (Myers) world has been transformed by her actions, and not always for the better. Pip is determined to fix the fallout and stay away from any more investigations. But as Max Hastings' (Ashton) trial approaches, Connor's (Morgan-Collie) brother Jamie (Hambelton Davies) disappears and Pip finds herself in a race against time to find him. This new mystery will take Pip to unexpected places as she struggles with the idea of justice, straying even further from the "good girl" she once was.
PRIME VIDEO's BLOODAXE
  • Karlis Arnolds Avots, Rod Hallett, Alina Tomnikov, Sisse Marie, Rune Temte and Jesper Christensen have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Xavier Molyneux and Jessica Madsen.
  • Avots will play Egil, a poet, farmer, murderer, sorcerer, ladies' man, and a bit of a psychopath. He is seeking revenge on Bloodaxe (Molyneux) for the exile of his family to Iceland by Erik's father, King Harald Fairhair.
  • Hallett will play Athelstan, the shrewd and powerful King of Wessex, who is also a formidable warrior. Years ago, he formed a strategic alliance with King Harald Fairhair concerning his young son Haakon (Levi Miller), and has been grooming him for future leadership, and to ensure his influence extends beyond Wessex.
  • Tomnikov will play the dual role of both Greta and The Seer. Greta is an esteemed shield maiden and a close member of Bloodaxe's trusted group of warriors. However, it's revealed that she has the ability to transform into the form of an ancient woman, known as The Seer, who possesses an all-seeing power, and the ability to divine the future as ordained by the gods themselves.
  • Marie will play Thyra, the Queen of Denmark, wife of Gorm, and mother to Gunnhild (Madsen). She is an admired figure, cunning and steadfast, and will do whatever she can to ensure the longevity of her and Gorm's power and rule.
  • Temte will play Gorm, the King of Denmark, husband to Thyra, and father to Gunnhild. Sharp and devious, he lacks the brash, hot-headedness prized in many Norsemen, but his calculating, diplomatic, and occasionally brutal approach to rule has made him one of the most formidable powers in Scandinavia.
  • Christensen will play King Harald Fairhair, the first King of all Norway who conquerer his many powerful rivals, nearing the end of his legendary reign. He relies on the love and support of his son, Bloodaxe, and begins to fear that many of his sons are now plotting against him.