Casting News - September 13, 2024
CBS' Elsbeth; Netflix's Ginny & Georgia and His & Hers; Paramount+'s JonBenét Ramsey and Lioness; and Peacock's Law & Order: Organized Crime.
CBS' Elsbeth; Netflix's Ginny & Georgia and His & Hers; Paramount+'s JonBenét Ramsey and Lioness; and Peacock's Law & Order: Organized Crime.
NETFLIX's HIS & HERS
- Crystal Fox, Sunita Mani, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Marin Ireland will co-star on the upcoming limited series starring Tessa Thompson. Fox previously starred for eight seasons in OWN's The Haves and the Have Nots and two seasons in AppleTV+'s The Big Door Prize. Mani recurred on USA's Mr. Robot, Netflix's GLOW and AppleTV+'s Servant. Rittenhouse starred for two seasons in FOX/Hulu's The Mindy Project and in the Hulu limited series Four Weddings and a Funeral. Ireland starred for three seasons in Amazon's Sneaky Pete and in the FX limited series Justified: City Primeval.
- Fox will play Alice, Anna's (Thompson) mother, who still lives in her house in Dahlonega, Georgia. Strong, says what she thinks, lives alone but maybe shouldn't, she hasn't heard from her daughter in a year, but she knows why. Her son-in-law, Detective Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal), has been watching over her as her health has been in decline which has resulted in some odd behavior around town.
- Mani will play Priya, a new Sheriff's Office detective and Jack's partner. She is earnestly efficient, eager to please, and fascinated by murder. Having left the big city to work in a small town, Priya brings a sharp quirkiness to the job that her mentor Jack finds both endearing and annoying.
- Rittenhouse will play Lexy. Blonde hair, Hollywood smile, smart, professional and driven by raw, she is now the anchor at WSK-TV News - a position the hugely popular Anna Andrews had previously held for years. As a new field reporter at WSK, Lexy capitalized on Anna's leave of absence, leapfrogging into anchor desk position. Though she's "delighted" to see Anna back at the news station, she has no intention of giving up the anchor desk.
- Ireland will play Zoe. Sharp-tongued and bored, she lives in her parent's house with Jack and her six-year-old daughter Meg. Her love of wine and her too-tight sweatpants suggests she's a woman who peaked in high school. She's letting Jack stay with her until he gets back on his feet, and the murder in their small town is equally exciting and shocking when she learns who the victim is.
PARAMOUNT+'s LIONESS
- Max Martini, Kirk Acevedo and Patricia De Leon have landed recurring roles on the drama's upcoming second season. Martini previously starred for four seasons in CBS' The Unit and recurred on Freevee's Bosch: Legacy. Acevedo starred for four seasons in Syfy's 12 Monkeys and two seasons in The CW's Arrow. De Leon recurred on FX's Mayans M.C. and ABC's Station 19.
- Martini will play Tracer, a "man hunter" with the Special Forces team.
- Acevedo will play Gutierrez, a toughened FBI agent.
- De Leon will play Maria, a wealthy Dallas resident.
PARAMOUNT+'s JONBENÉT RAMSEY
- Jaime Ray Newman and Josh Stamberg have booked recurring roles on the upcoming limited series starring Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen. Newman previously starred in the first season of Netflix's The Punisher and recurred on Hulu's Dopesick. Stamberg starred for four seasons in Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva and recurred on Showtime's The Affair.
- Newman will play Amelia Hunt, an upscale and wealthy god friend of John Ramsey (Owen) who is part of the group of Boulder women with kids who are friends with Patsy (McCarthy).
- Stamberg will play Reed Hunt, a recently retired oil magnate and a good friend of John Ramsey's.
CBS' ELSBETH
- Pamela Adlon, Vanessa Williams, Rob Riggle and Brittany O'Grady will guest star on the drama's upcoming second season. Adlon created and starred in FX's Better Things, which ran for five seasons. Williams starred for four seasons in ABC's Ugly Betty and two seasons in ABC's Desperate Housewives. Riggle recurred on ABC's Modern Family and co-hosted ABC's Holey Moley, which ran for four seasons. O'Grady starred for three seasons in FOX's Star and in the first season of HBO's The White Lotus.
- Adlon will play Chef Veev, one of America's most revered chefs and owner of New York's hottest restaurant. Despite her anger management training, her rage turns deadly after a staff member's side hustle causes havoc in the dining room and blows a major deal.
- Williams will play Roselyn, the chic and ultra-wealthy VIP member of an exclusive jewelry store on Fifth Avenue who takes her passion for fabulous jewelry to the next level when she finds out her fortune has run dry, planning a jewel heist with some fellow VIPs. But when one of her recruits threatens to turn her and the crew in, she makes sure nothing and no one will stand in her way.
- Riggle will play Neal Dorsey, a billionaire who made his fortune as a paint manufacturer but is considered "uncool" by his fellow billionaires. His grudge towards an old enemy takes a deadly turn when the fellow billionaire dies in a freak accident while they're training for a pointless mission to space.
- O'Grady will play Mackenzie "Mac" Andrews, a former child star and current party girl plagued by scandals in the tabloids and online. Now desperately working to close a deal that may define the next chapter in her career, she wakes up on Halloween after a wild night on the town, wondering whether she may have committed a murder.
NETFLIX's GINNY & GEORGIA
- Ty Doran and Noah Lamanna are set for recurring roles on the drama's upcoming third season. Doran previously starred in the fourth season of Netflix's Manifest. Lamanna recurred on Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and MGM+'s Beacon 23.
- Doran will play Wolfe, a laid-back student in Ginny's (Antonia Gentry) poetry class who is not particularly interested in academics.
- Lamanna will play Tris, a brainy skateboarder and a peer tutor who is a close friend of Marcus (Felix Mallard) and Silver (Katelyn Wells).
PEACOCK's LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has been cast in a recurring role on the drama's upcoming fifth season. Despite previously starring in the ninth season of USA's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, she will be playing a new character in the latest series in the franchise. She was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1986 for her role in The Color of Money.
- She will play Isabella Spezzano, a figure from Stabler's (Christopher Meloni) past.