Casting News - July 14, 2017
ABC's Designated Survivor; Amazon's The Dangerous Book for Boys; The CW's Riverdale; FX's Trust; Netflix's Jessica Jones; Paramount's Yellowstone; and Syfy's 12 Monkeys & The Expanse.
PARAMOUNT's YELLOWSTONE
- Kelsey Asbille (Wind River) has been cast on the upcoming drama starring Kevin Costner. She will play Monica, the Native America wife of John Dutton's (Costner) youngest son Cory (Luke Grimes), an emotionally reserved ex-Navy SEAL whom she lives with on the reservation along with their son.
NETFLIX's JESSICA JONES
- Leah Gibson (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Shut Eye) has joined the drama's upcoming second season as a new series regular. She will play Ingrid, a streetwise woman who also has an education as a nurse.
SYFY's 12 MONKEYS
- Game of Thrones star Conleth Hill will appear in at least two episodes of the drama's upcoming fourth and final season. He will play Bonham, a world weary international law enforcement agent facing the last days of mankind. His ancestors - by virtue of time travel - were given a relic of incredible importance. As a world-ending pandemic spreads across the globe, he has come to doubt the item's truth. His sense of duty out-paces his hope - and in the end, both will be tested.
SYFY's THE EXPANSE
- David Strathairn (Alphas, Good Night and Good Luck) has landed a major recurring role on the drama's upcoming third season. No details were immediately released about the character he will be playing, though it's described as a substantial character with a significant arc.
ABC's DESIGNATED SURVIVOR
- Ben Lawson (The Deep End, Neighbours) has booked a series regular role on the drama's upcoming second season. He will play Damian Rennett, an MI-6 operative who meets Hannah (Maggie Q) while posing as a Dutchman in Amsterdam. Their relationship begins with mutual wariness, morphs into competitiveness, and is complicated by an irresistible mutual attraction.
AMAZON's THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS
- Kyan Zielinski will co-star on the upcoming comedy starring Erinn Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos. He will play Liam, the oldest of the three brothers, who's book smart and spends way too much time on his computer. Forced to move into his brother's room when his uncle (Diamantopoulos) moves in, he's not thrilled - and gets into frequent disagreements with middle brother, Dash (Drew Logan Powell).
FX's TRUST
- Black Sails alum Hannah New is set for a recurring role on the upcoming drama starring Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank. She will play Victoria, the girlfriend of John Paul Getty II (Michael Esper), the father of the kidnapped teenager.
THE CW's RIVERDALE
- Brit Morgan (True Blood, Supergirl) has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming second season. She will play Penny Peabody, a wily backroom attorney who the Southside Serpents keep on retainer in case of run-ins with the law. She prefers that her clients pay her with favors, not cash, as Jughead (Cole Sprouse) finds out when he seeks her out to help with his father (Skeet Ulrich).
