Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Casting News - Adrianna Palicki Joins 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' as Mockingbird; 'CSI: Cyber' Adds Bow Wow; Plus 7 More Updates!

Casting News - August 19, 2014

ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Revenge & Scandal; CBS' CSI: Cyber; The CW's Arrow & Reign; FOX's Brooklyn Nine-Nine & Mulaney; and NBC's Law & Order: SVU.




ABC's REVENGE
  • Nestor Serrano (Graceland) has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fourth season. He will play Edward Alvarez, a commanding and perceptive police chief who's very much an ally for Victoria (Madeleine Stowe).
ABC's SCANDAL
  • Lost alum Sonya Walger has landed a potentially recurring role on the fourth season of the hit drama. Like all of the series' previous casting, details on her role are being kept under wraps.
FOX's MULANEY
  • Bailee Madison (Trophy Wife, The Fosters) will guest star on an upcoming episode of the fall comedy. She will play Ruby, the daughter of Julia, a woman Mulaney (John Mulaney) is dating. However, he wants out of the relationship but doesn't want to give up his friendship with Ruby.
THE CW's REIGN
  • British newcomer Rose Willians has been cast in a recurring role on the second season of the period drama. She will play Princess Claude, the other daughter of Catherine de Medici (Megan Follows) and the recently deceased King Henry (Alan Van Spring).
ABC's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, About a Boy) has been tapped to play super spy Bobbi Morse - aka Mockingbird - on the fifth episode of the drama's second season. The character's arrival was first teased in July at Comic-Con in a video featuring Patton Oswalt's Billy and Sam Koenig.
THE CW's ARROW
  • Matt Ward (Hellcats, Tron: Legacy) has been tapped for a guest starring role in an early Season 3 episode of the hit drama. He will play Simon Lacroix, a deadly mercenary using the code name Komodo, who wreaks havoc in Starling City.
NBC's LAW & ORDER: SVU
  • Teri Polo (The Fosters) and Stacy Keach (Enlisted) will guest star on the October 1 episode of the long-running procedural. They will play a father-daughter team whose lives are turned upside-down when the face of their best-selling clothing line is charged with serial rape.
  • Peter Scanavino (Person of Interest, The Blacklist) will also guest star in the season premiere and will likely recur throughout the season. He will play Detective Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr., newly assigned to Manhattan SVU, who Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) will reluctantly take under her wing.
FOX's BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
  • Patton Oswalt (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Goldbergs) will reprise his role as Fire Marshall Boone in an October episode of the hit comedy's second season.
CBS' CSI: CYBER
  • Hip-hop artist Shad Moss, aka Bow Wow, will co-star on the midseason drama opposite Patricia Arquette and James Van Der Beek. He will play Brody "Baby Face" Nelson, a top hacker ordered by a judge to work with Ryan (Arquette) to assist with a cyber case or go to prison.