Casting News - December 1, 2025
HBO Max's The Pitt; NBC's Brilliant Minds; Prime Video's Tomb Raider; and Starz's Power: Origins.
HBO Max's The Pitt; NBC's Brilliant Minds; Prime Video's Tomb Raider; and Starz's Power: Origins.
NBC's BRILLIANT MINDS
- Sarah Steele will appear in a recurring role on the drama's second season. She previously starred for six seasons in Paramount+'s The Good Fight.
- She will play Sofia, a new patient suffering from a medical mystery that Wolf (Zachary Quinto) struggles to crack. She's a bit brazen, and becomes fast friends with Wolf after a run-in in the unlikeliest of places.
HBO MAX's THE PITT
- Brittany Allen, Bonita Friedericy, Taylor Handley and Jeff Kober have landed recurring roles on the drama's upcoming second season. Allen previously recurred on Prime Video's The Boys and Showtime's Dexter: Original Sin. Friedericy recurred on NBC's Chuck and Peacock's A Friend of the Family. Handley currently stars in Paramount+'s Mayor of Kingstown, which is now airing its fourth season. Kober recurred on FX's Sons of Anarchy and ABC's General Hospital.
- Allen will play Roxie Hamler, an Emergency Department patient.
- Friedericy will play Cora Wilkins, a woman visiting a patient in the Emergency Department.
- Handley will play Paul Hamler, the husband of an Emergency Department patient.
- Kober will play Duke, a motorcycle engineer who goes way back with one of the doctors.
PRIME VIDEO's TOMB RAIDER
- Martin Bobb-Semple will co-star opposite Sophie Turner on the upcoming drama developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. He previously starred for two seasons in Netflix's Free Rein, in the first season of The CW's Pandora, and in the third season of The CW's All American: Homecoming.
- No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing.
STARZ's POWER: ORIGINS
- Jason Dirden, Jennifer Ferrin, Lizzy DeClement, Lenny Platt, Armani Gabriel and Everett Osborne have been cast in recurring roles on the upcoming Power prequel starring Spence Moore and Charlie Mann. Dirden previously starred for two seasons in BET's American Soul. Ferrin starred for three seasons in AMC's Hell on Wheels and in the HBO limited series Mosaic. DeClement recurred on NBC's New Amsterdam and HBO's Divorce. Platt recurred on National Geographic's The Hot Zone and ABC's Quantico. Gabriel guest starred on CBS' Blue Bloods. Osborne guest starred on NBC's Chicago Fire.
- Dirden will reprise his role as Traymont Stinson from Power Book III: Raising Kanan. He was a once-trusted associate of the Thomas family who betrayed them.
- Ferrin will play Kate Egan, Tommy's (Mann) mother. She is melodramatic, attention-seeking and manipulative, especially if she's using and desperate to get her hands on her next fix. Despite this, Tommy is fiercely devoted to her, taking care of her and trying to keep her clean.
- DeClement will play Jill Wexler, a nurse at a local Queens hospital with big dreams to someday go to medical school. Smart, ambitious and sharp-tongued, she is a recovering addict who has experienced a lot of heartbreak in her young life. She falls hard for Tommy but is also quick to call him on his bullshit and frequent idiocy.
- Platt will play Lenny Seidell, a charismatic, confident finance bro turned fitness entrepreneur who owns a handful of successful NYC gyms with ambitions to create a fitness empire. His business model relies heavily on providing steroids to his elite gym clientele and he's always looking for new partners.
- Gabriel will play J-Boogs, a reliable foot soldier with a good eye for the game. Sharp, street-smart and scrappy, he's one of Ghost (Moore) and Tommy's most trusted corner boys.
- Osborne will play Omay Moreau, a superstar tight end with the New York Jets and a generous friend to those in his inner circle. He invites his pals into an extravagant world of parties, hot women and hotter calls - all with no strings attached - or so it seems.