Thursday, August 22, 2024

Casting News - Matthew Rhys to Play Male Lead Opposite Claire Danes in Netflix's 'The Beast in Me'; Plus 5 More Updates!

Casting News - August 22, 2024

Amazon's The Girlfriend & Renee Ballard; Netflix's The Beast in Me & One Piece; Showtime's The Agency; and USA's The Rainmaker.





NETFLIX's THE BEAST IN ME
  • Matthew Rhys will play the male lead on the upcoming limited series starring Claire Danes. He has received five Emmy Award nominations - winning in 2018 for his lead performance in the final season of FX's The Americans.
  • He will play Nile Jarvis, a famed and formidable real estate mogul who was once the prime suspect in his wife's disappearance.
AMAZON's THE GIRLFRIEND
  • Tanya Moodie, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Anna Chancellor, Karen Henthorn, Leo Suter and Francesca Corney have joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Robin Wright, Olivia Cooke, Laurie Davidson and Waleed Zuaiter.
  • Moodie (A Discovery of Witches, Motherland) will play Isabella, Laura's (Wright) best friend and mother to Brigitte. She has her finger on the pulse of the rich and privileged.
  • Brune-Franklin (Baby Reindeer, The Tourist) will play Brigitte, Isabella's daughter. She and Daniel (Davidson) grew up together, and at one point dated each other.
  • Chancellor (Pennyworth, My Lady Jane) will play Lilith, a trailblazing, straight-talking artist who has rejected the phony, superficial allure of the art world to forge her own path.
  • Henthorn (Coronation Street, Passenger) will play Tracey, Cherry's (Cooke) mother. She has endured a challenging life that has left her unsentimental and averse to physical affection.
  • Suter (Vikings: Valhalla, Sanditon) will play Nicholas, Cherry's ex-boyfriend.
  • Corney (The Buccaneers, Fistful of Vengeance) will play Millie, who is madly in love and engaged to Nicholas.
AMAZON's RENEE BALLARD
  • Ricardo Chavira, Noah Bean, Alain Uy and Hector Hugo have landed recurring roles on the upcoming Bosch spinoff starring Maggie Q. Chavira previously starred for eight seasons in ABC's Desperate Housewives and for two seasons in Netflix's Selena: The Series. Bean starred for four seasons in The CW's Nikita and in the first season of Syfy's 12 Monkeys. Uy recurred on ABC's Station 19 and Starz's Power Book IV: Force. Hugo recurred on HBO's Veep and FX's Snowfall.
  • Chavira will play Detective Robert Olivas, a well-respected, charming and charismatic detective, who shares a complicated past with Ballard (Q).
  • Bean will play Councilman Jake Pearlman, a savvy yet altruistic politician who goes out on a limb to bolster the Cold Case Unit in order to solve the murder of his sister.
  • Uy will play Nelson Hastings, a shrewd and ambitious political animal. He's been friends with Jake since high school and will do whatever is needed to support him.
  • Hugo will play Captain Berchem, an RHD captain and man of the people, a real "cop's cop" who took a leap on Ballard and cares deeply about justice and the integrity of his team.
USA's THE RAINMAKER
  • P.J. Byrne will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Milo Callaghan and John Slattery. He previously starred in the Peacock limited series Irreverent and in the AppleTV+ limited series The Big Cigar.
  • He will play Deck Shifflet, a no-filter, shoot-from-the-hip law school grad who failed the bar seven times. He now operates as an unsentimental "para-lawyer" at J. Lyman Stone.
NETFLIX's ONE PIECE
  • Sendhil Ramamurthy will appear in the drama's upcoming second season. He previously starred for four seasons in NBC's Heroes and three seasons in USA's Covert Affairs. He also recurred on NBC's New Amsterdam, The CW's The Flash, Netflix's Never Have I Ever and Max's Doom Patrol.
  • He will play Nefertari Cobra, the King of Alabasta and the patriarch of the Nefertari family.
SHOWTIME's THE AGENCY
  • Alex Reznik, Andrew Brooke, Harriet Sansom Harris, India Fowler and Saura Lightfoot-Leon have been cast on the upcoming drama starring Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, Katherine Waterston and Richard Gere.
  • Reznik (Babylon, Seven Seconds) will play Coyote, an undercover CIA agent.
  • Brooke (After Life, The Salisbury Poisonings) will play another CIA officer who goes by Grandpa.
  • Harris (Hacks, Frasier) will play Dr. Blake, a behavioral psychologist assigned to the agency.
  • Fowler (The Nevers, Insomnia) will play Poppy, Martian's (Fassbender) teenage daughter.
  • Lightfoot-Leon (Hoard, Masters of the Air) will play Danny, a promising agent trainee.