Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Casting News - Judith Light, CCH Pounder and John Benjamin Hickey Join 'The Terror: Devil in Silver'; Plus 5 More Updates!

Casting News - July 23, 2024

Amazon's El Gato; AMC's The Terror: Devil in Silver; Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale; NBC's Law & Order: SVU; Peacock's Poker Face; and Starz's Spartacus: House of Ashur.




AMC's THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER
  • Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, b, Hayward Leach and Philip Ettinger have joined the cast of the upcoming third installment of the anthology series starring Dan Stevens. No details were announced about their characters.
  • Light previously received five Emmy Award nominations - finally winning last year for her guest role on Peacock's Poker Face. She also received three Tony Award nominations - winning for the plays Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties.
  • Pounder starred for seven seasons in FX's The Shield, seven seasons in CBS' NCIS: New Orleans and in the Max limited series Full Circle.
  • Mandvi currently stars in Paramount+'s Evil, which is now airing its fourth and final season. He also spent a decade as a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
  • Hickey starred for four seasons in Showtime's The Big C and two seasons in WGN America's Manhattan. He won a Tony Award in 2011 for his role in the play The Normal Heart.
  • Root starred for four seasons in HBO's Barry, receiving an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. He also recurred on Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, FOX/NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, HBO's Perry Mason and HBO's Succession.
  • Aronov recurred on FX's The Americans, CBS' Madam Secretary, Showtime's Billions and NBC's The Blacklist. He won a Tony Award in 2017 for his role in the play Oslo
  • Ireland starred for three seasons in Amazon's Sneaky Pete, in the second season of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy and in the FX limited series Justified: City Primeval.
  • Uche currently stars in AppleTV+'s Silo, which has been renewed for a second season. He previously recurred on AppleTV+'s Dickinson.
  • Fluker starred for three seasons in NBC's Shades of Blue. He also recurred on Paramount+'s Evil and NBC's Chicago Med
  • b guest starred on AppleTV+'s WeCrashed and Showtime's Let the Right One In. They will also be recurring on the upcoming fifth and final season of Netflix's You.
  • Leach recurred on Max's Love Life and The CW's Tom Swift.
  • Ettinger recurred on HBO's I Know This Much Is True, Peacock's Angelyne and Peacock's A Friend of the Family.
HULU's THE HANDMAID'S TALE
  • Josh Charles will reunite with Elisabeth Moss as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming sixth and final season. The two previously starred together in FX's The Veil, which aired earlier this year. Charles also previously received two Emmy Award nominations for his role on CBS' The Good Wife.
  • No details were immediately announced about the character he will be playing.
STARZ's SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR
  • Lucy Lawless will reprise her Spartacus role in the upcoming spinoff starring Nick Tarabay. This will be the fourth Spartacus series she will appear in - following 2010's Blood and Sand, 2011's Gods of the Arena and 2012's Vengeance. She currently stars in the Australian drama My Life Is Murder, which aired its fourth season earlier this year.
  • She plays Lucretia, whose appearance in the series premiere will be instrumental in setting up the "what if" alternate timeline of the new series.
NBC's LAW & ORDER: SVU
  • Kevin Kane has been promoted to series regular on the drama's upcoming 26th season. He joined the veteran procedural playing Detective Terry Bruno as a recurring guest star in Season 24 - appearing in 19 episodes. He previously guest starred as other minor characters in Seasons 9, 13, 17 and 20. Elsewhere, he won an Emmy Award in 2015 for producing Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer.
  • Furthermore, Juliana Aidén Martinez has been cast in a recurring role. She will play a new detective, with additional details being kept under wraps. She broke out earlier this year with her co-starring role on the Netflix limited series Griselda.
PEACOCK's POKER FACE
  • Kathrine Narducci, Sherry Cola, Kevin Corrigan and Ben Marshall will appear as guest stars on the dramedy's upcoming second season. Narducci previously recurred on HBO's The Sopranos, Starz's Power and MGM+'s Godfather of Harlem. Cola starred for five seasons in Freeform's Good Trouble. Corrigan recurred on Showtime's Ray Donovan and NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime. Marshall has been a writer on NBC's Saturday Night Live since 2021.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.
AMAZON's EL GATO
  • Julio César Cedillo and Alejandro Edda have landed recurring roles on the upcoming drama starring Diego Boneta. Both actors previously starred on Netflix's Narcos: Mexico - with Cedillo appearing in two seasons and Edda performing in all three.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.