Friday, May 3, 2024

Casting News - Kevin Corrigan, Tim Baltz and Sakina Jaffrey Land Recurring Roles on Hulu's 'Deli Boys'; Plus 1 More Update!

Casting News - May 3, 2024

Hulu's Deli Boys and Paramount+'s Tulsa King.






HULU's DELI BOYS
  • Kevin Corrigan, Alexandra Ruddy, Tim Baltz, Zainne Saleh, Sakina Jaffrey, Amita Rao, Anish Jethmalani, Minita Gandhi and Geoffrey Arend have landed recurring roles on the upcoming comedy starring Asif Ali and Saagar Shaikh.
  • Corrigan will play Chickie Lozano, an old-school, Italian American crime boss in Philadelphia. He is terrifying yet charming. Corrigan previously starred for two seasons in Showtime's Dice and recurred on MGM+'s Godfather of Harlem.
  • Ruddy will play Agent Mercer, a female FBI agent excluded from the boys club of the agency and on a mission to prove herself. Ruddy appeared in the 2018 film City of Lies and was a staff writer on FX's The Premise.
  • Baltz will play Director Simpson, the regional director of the FBI and Agent Mercer's boss who fancies himself an American hero. Baltz currently stars in HBO's The Righteous Gemstones, which has been renewed for a fourth season.
  • Saleh will play Bushra, Mir's (Ali) fiancé, smart and ambitious but carries herself as if she were a Pakistani princess. Saleh recurred on NBC's The Night Shift and Freeform's Good Trouble.
  • Jaffrey will play Seema, Bushra's mother and a powerful woman who thinks her daughter deserves better. Jaffrey starred for two seasons in NBC's Timeless, two seasons in Showtime's Billions and in the AppleTV+ limited series Defending Jacob.
  • Rao will play Nandika, who is into cosplay and Raj (Shaikh). She works the front counter of her parents' Indian restaurant. Rao starred in the Hindi films Ishq Vishk and Welcome to Sajjanpur
  • Jethmalani will play Patika, a docile man who owns a failing Indian restaurant with his family. Jethmalani guest starred on FOX's Empire, Max's Station Eleven, NBC's Chicago P.D. and AMC's 61st Street.
  • Gandhi will play Latika, the wife of Patika who runs their restaurant and the show. Gandhi guest starred on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder, NBC's Chicago P.D. and CBS' CSI: Vegas.
  • Arend will play Ralph, the temperamental cocaine "chef" of the Dar operation. Arend starred for three seasons in ABC's Body of Proof and six seasons in CBS' Madam Secretary.
PARAMOUNT+'s TULSA KING
  • Rich Ting has booked a recurring role on the dramedy's upcoming second season. He previously recurred on Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, AppleTV+'s Hello Tomorrow!, Netflix's Partner Track and Max's Warrior.
  • He will play Jackie Ming, a quiet but ruthless man with his own ambitions in Tulsa.