Casting News - July 18, 2024
AMC's The Terror: Devil in Silver; CBS' S.W.A.T.; Paramount+'s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy; and Peacock's The Day of the Jackal.
AMC's The Terror: Devil in Silver; CBS' S.W.A.T.; Paramount+'s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy; and Peacock's The Day of the Jackal.
AMC's THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER
- Dan Stevens will star in and executive produce the upcoming third installment of the anthology series. He previously starred for three seasons in ITV's Downton Abbey, three seasons in FX's Legion and in the Starz limited series Gaslit.
- He will play Pepper. Through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, the working-class moving man finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital - an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a hellscape where nothing is as it seems, he finds that the only path to freedom is to face down the entity which thrives on the suffering within New Hyde's walls - but doing so may prove that the worst demons of all live inside him.
PEACOCK's THE DAY OF THE JACKAL
- Florisa Kamara has joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch. She previously starred for three seasons in Sky One's Bulletproof and recurred on BBC One's EastEnders.
- She will play Jasmine, Bianca's (Lynch) daughter.
CBS' S.W.A.T.
- Niko Pepaj has been promoted to series regular for the drama's upcoming eighth season. Moreover, Annie Ilonzeh has been cast in a recurring role. Pepaj joined the drama as a recurring guest star in its sixth season - appearing in 12 episodes to date. Ilonzeh previously starred for two seasons in NBC's Chicago Fire.
- Pepaj plays Miguel Alfaro, an officer from Long Beach who became a new SWAT recruit working with 20-Squad on-and-off until joining them full-time at the conclusion of Season 7.
- Ilonzeh will play Devin Gamble, who was born into an L.A. family deeply entrenched in crime, leaving her with a fierce determination to break free of her blood legacy. She thought she'd achieved that, becoming a standout as an LAPD rookie... until her father's arrest for a heinous crime cast a shadow Gamble could only escape by leaving L.A. for the Oakland PD. Now a decade later, Hondo (Shemar Moore) brings Gamble back home to become an integral new member of 20-Squad, knowing her inner strength, intuition, and street smarts will make her an invaluable part of the team.
PARAMOUNT+'s STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY
- Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti. Diané previously recurred on Peacock's One of Us Is Lying. Steiner starred in the Australian limited series Significant Others.
- They will play two of Starfleet's newest cadets.