Friday, August 1, 2014

Casting News - 'Arrow' Casts Felicity's Mom; Betsy Brandt Returns to 'Parenthood' for Final Season; Plus 3 More Updates!

Casting News - August 1, 2014

CBS' CSI: Cyber; The CW's Arrow; FOX's Gotham & The Mindy Project; and NBC's Parenthood.





THE CW's ARROW
  • Charlotte Ross (NYPD Blue, Days of Our Lives) will appear in the drama's upcoming Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) centric flashback episode as the mother to everyone's favorite IT girl. Details on her character and how she'll figure into the episode - titled "Oracle" and airing in early November - are being kept under wraps. It was previously revealed that Felicity's mother was a cocktail waitress in Las Vegas, with her dad out of the picture.
FOX's GOTHAM
  • David Zayas (Dexter) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming Batman prequel series. He will play Salvatore Maroni, one of the city's most dangerous gangsters who clawed his way into controlling the city's drug trade and unions. Now, he's striving to gain more territory, putting him on a crash course with rival Falcone (John Doman) for control of the city.
FOX's THE MINDY PROJECT
  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Rob McElhenny will guest star in the third season premiere of the hit comedy. He will play Lou Tookers, Morgan's (Ike Barinholtz) cousin who is hired to fix the computers in the office.
NBC's PARENTHOOD
  • Breaking Bad alum Betsy Brandt will reprise her as Hank's (Ray Romano) ex-wife, Sandy, on a recurring basis for the drama's sixth and final season. She will return during the September 25 season premiere. She previously appeared in the fourth season episode "Trouble in Candyland."
CBS' CSI: CYBER
  • Emmy winner Peter MacNicol (Ally McBeal, Numb3rs) has joined the cast of the midseason drama as a new series regular. He will play Assistant Director Stavros Sifter, a career FBI insider and supervisor to Special Agent Avery Ryan (Patricia Arquette) and her team for the Cyber Crime Division in Washington D.C.