Thursday, June 19, 2014

Casting News - Zachary Quinto to Guest on 'Girls'; 'Lost' & 'Southland' Alums to Topline 'Z Nation'; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - June 19, 2014

Bravo's Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce; El Rey's Matador; HBO's Girls; History's Vikings; MTV's Awkward; Netflix's Grace and Frankie & Narcos; Syfy's Z Nation; and TNT's Major Crimes.




NETFLIX's GRACE AND FRANKIE
  • Martin Sheen (The West Wing) has joined the cast of the comedy series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. He will play Robert, Grace's (Fonda) husband who leaves her for Frankie's (Tomlin) husband.
EL REY's MATADOR
  • Christopher Cousins (Breaking Bad), Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire) and Eve Torres (The Scorpion King) have landed recurring roles on the new drama series. Cousins will play Deputy Director Llewyn Wayne Smith, a seasoned higher up within the CIA who is in charge of the department that recruited Tony (Gabriel Luna). Bingham will play Abigail "Billie" Fisher, a logistics analyst who works for the CIA. Torres will play Reyna Flores, a sideline journalist who reports on Tony's rise to sudden fame.
TNT's MAJOR CRIMES
  • Hampton Fluker (The Blind Side) will guest star on an upcoming episode of the procedural. He will play Jamey Perez, an intelligent, determined and ambitious third generation LAPD officer who is ambitious to spend his time in SWAT for the best purposes possible.
NETFLIX's NARCOS
  • Manolo Cardona (Reign, Covert Affairs) has joined the cast of the upcoming drama series as a series regular. He will play Eduardo Mendoza, the baby-faced chief of the National Prison System, an inexperienced, kind, idealistic man-child with a can-do attitude who was wrongly blamed for Pablo Escobar's (Wagner Moura) escape from La Catedral.
HISTORY's VIKINGS
  • Jennie Jacques has booked a regular role on the upcoming third season of the period drama. She will play Judith, the daughter of Saxon King Aelle (Ivan Kaye) and bride to Aethelwulf (Moe Dunford), son of Saxon King Ecbert (Linus Roache).
HBO's GIRLS
  • Zachary Quinto (Heroes, Star Trek) will appear on an upcoming episode of the comedy's fourth season. No details were immediately released on who he will be playing.
SYFY's Z NATION
  • Harold Perrineau (Lost), Tom Everett Scott (Southland), DJ Qualls (Supernatural), Michael Welch (Twilight) and Kellita Smith (The Bernie Mac Show) have joined the cast of the new drama series. Perrineau will play Hammond, the leader of the group headed west. Scott will play Garnett, Hammond's second-in-command. Qualls will play Citizen Z, a computer hacker who joins the team and helps them navigate the zombie-infested terrain. Welch and Smith will play Mack and Addy, respectively, two disparate wanderers drawn to the team - and to each other - by a shared goal: survival.
  • Rounding out the ensemble cast are Anastasia Baranova (The Darkness II) as Addy, Russell Hodgkinson (Big Fish) as Doc and Keith Allan (Rise of the Zombies) as Murphy.
MTV's AWKWARD
  • Niko Pepaj (Bunheads) has landed a recurring role on the second half of the comedy's fourth season. He will play Sergio, a confident and unflappable young man who works with Sadie (Molly Tarlov) on the food truck.
BRAVO's GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO DIVORCE
  • After guest starring in the pilot, Paul Adelstein has been upped to series regular on the upcoming drama series. He plays Jake, Abby's (Lisa Edelstein) husband.
  • Also joining the drama today as recurring are J. August Richards (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) as Max's (Patrick Heusinger) husband, Fora; C. Thomas Howell (Southland) as Abby's new love interest, Nate; Julianna Guill (Crazy, Stupid, Love) as Jake's 23-year-old girlfriend, Becca; Michael Weaver (The Joe Schmo Show) as Lyla's (Janeane Garofalo) ex-husband, Dan; and Charles Mesure (Desperate Housewives) as Phoebe's (Beau Garrett) ex-husband, Ralf.