Casting News - December 5, 2025
CBS' NCIS: Origins; FX's Cry Wolf; NBC's The Hunting Party; and Paramount+'s MobLand.
CBS' NCIS: Origins; FX's Cry Wolf; NBC's The Hunting Party; and Paramount+'s MobLand.
FX's CRY WOLF
- Shawn Hatosy will star opposite Olivia Colman and Brie Larson in the upcoming limited series created by Sarah Treem. He previously starred for five seasons in TNT's Southland and six seasons in TNT's Animal Kingdom. He won an Emmy Award earlier this year for his guest role on HBO Max's The Pitt.
- He will play April's (Larson) husband and Mia's stepfather who is at the center of the girl's abuse allegations.
PARAMOUNT+'s MOBLAND
- Johnny Flynn and Ophelia Lovibond have been cast as new series regulars on the drama's upcoming second season. Flynn previously starred in the first season of National Geographic's Genius and in the Netflix limited series Ripley. Lovibond starred for two seasons in Apple TV's Trying and for two seasons in HBO Max/Starz's Minx.
- No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing. They will join returning cast members Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, Paddy Considine, Joanne Froggatt, Lara Pulver, Anson Boon, Mandeep Dhillon, Jasmine Jobson, Emmett Scanlan, Teddie Allen, Janet McTeer, Toby Jones and Alex Fine.
NBC's THE HUNTING PARTY
- Kelsey Grammer, Elizabeth Gillies and Jefferson White will guest star on the drama's upcoming second season. Grammer has received 18 Emmy Award nominations - winning four for his lead role in NBC's Frasier as well as other two for FOX's The Simpsons and Netflix's Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia. Gillies starred for two seasons in FX's Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll and five seasons in The CW's Dynasty. White starred for five seasons in Paramount's Yellowstone.
- Grammer will play Noah Cyrus, a cult leader and serial killer. Two decades after his apparent death, he appears on the doorstep of one of his followers. Against the clock, the team races to stop Cyrus' plans, but everything is not as it seems.
- Gillies will play Amanda Weiss, a killer dubbed the Masseuse, who became famous for breaking the necks of her massage clients. She has kidnapped a woman and, rather than killing her, has even darker plans in mind.
- White will play Lou Kaplan, a serial killer who targets social media influencers. Instead of killing influencers when he resurfaces, he collaborates with them. The team tries to combat Lou's mastery of technology and manipulation.
CBS' NCIS: ORIGINS
- Adam Kulbersh and Mark Deklin will appear in an upcoming episode of the drama's second season. Kulbersh recurred on ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and FX's Better Things. Deklin recurred on TNT's Major Crimes, Netflix's Grace and Frankie, CBS' Blue Bloods and Paramount+'s The Good Fight.
- Kulbersh will play NIS Special Agent Felix Betts, an auditor from the Los Angeles office who is brought in to Camp Pendleton to help a new task force.
- Deklin will play NIS Special Agent Dan McLane, a highly revered veteran field agent working out of the Panama office who is called in by the Camp Pendleton team to lead a joint task force aimed at stopping a stolen weapons ring.