Thursday, January 23, 2020

Casting News - 'GLOW's Betty Gilpin to Play Ann Coulter in FX's 'Impeachment: American Crime Story'; Plus 2 More Updates!

Casting News - January 23, 2020

Amazon's The Power; AMC's 61st Street and FX's Impeachment: American Crime Story.





FX's IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY
  • Betty Gilpin has joined the cast of the upcoming third installment of the anthology series starring Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson, Annaleigh Ashford and Clive Owen. She previously starred for two seasons in Showtime's Nurse Jackie. She currently stars in Netflix's GLOW, which returns for its fourth and final season later this year.
  • She will play Ann Coulter, a conservative media pundit and author of the 1998 book High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
AMC's 61ST STREET
  • Tosin Cole and Bentley Green have been cast as series regulars in the upcoming drama starring Courtney B. Vance. Cole currently stars in BBC America's Doctor Who, joining the cast as a series regular in its eleventh season. Green has previously recurred on Netflix's Mr. Iglesias and FX's Snowfall.
  • Cole will play Moses, a kid from the South Side of Chicago. Athletic, smart, savvy, funny and a seriously gifted runner. His future is mapped out, he's 24 hours away from leaving home to take up an athletics scholarship at a college in New Hampshire. And then, he has an encounter with the Chicago Police Department which ends in the death of a white officer and Moses' arrest for his murder.
  • Green will play Joshua, Moses' younger brother. He is in the middle of trying to work out how he's going to be the man of the house when his older brother leaves for college when Moses is caught up in an encounter with the police which will change both their lives forever.
AMAZON's THE POWER
  • Eddie Marsan is set as a series regular on the upcoming drama starring Leslie Mann and Auli'i Cravalho. He currently stars in Showtime's Ray Donovan, which recently wrapped its seventh season and is awaiting word on its future.
  • He will play Bernie Monke, a North London crime boss and Roxy's (Ria Zmitrowicz) father. A man who lives by his own moral logic, he finds his relationship with his daughter irrevocably changed by the Power.