Monday, February 24, 2025

Casting News - Drew Starkey Joins 'Lucky'; Malcolm-Jamal Warner Books Recurring Role on 'Alert'; Plus 1 More Update!

Casting News - February 24, 2025

AMC's Untitled Jonathan Glatzer Drama; AppleTV+'s Lucky; and FOX's Alert: Missing Persons Unit.





AMC's UNTITLED JONATHAN GLATZER DRAMA
  • Meaghan Rath will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Billy Magnussen and Sarah Goldberg. She currently stars in CTV's Children Ruin Everything, which concludes after four seasons later this week. She previously starred for four seasons in Syfy's Being Human and three seasons in CBS' Hawaii Five-0.
  • She will play Anushka, the Chief Ethicist at a Cupertino-based tech company and Duncan's (Magnussen) former mistress.
APPLE TV+'s LUCKY
  • Drew Starkey has joined the cast of the upcoming limited series starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. He currently stars in Netflix's Outer Banks, which has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Last year, he was the co-lead opposite Daniel Craig in the film Queer
  • He will play Cary, Lucky's (Taylor-Joy) husband.
FOX's ALERT: MISSING PERSONS UNIT
  • Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Megalyn Echikunwoke have booked recurring roles on the drama's upcoming third season. Warner previously starred for five seasons in FOX's The Resident and recurred on ABC's 9-1-1. Echikunwoke starred for two seasons in USA's The 4400 and in FOX's one-season drama Almost Family
  • Warner will play Chief Inspector Bill Houston, who steps into an interim role with oversight of the MPU. A former Army Captain, he believes in structure and rules and, in the past, had issues with Jason's (Scott Caan) cowboy tactics. He begins to come around to the idea that some rules need to be broken once he sees the results the team gets with their unorthodox approach. He will become the father figure MPU didn't know they needed.
  • Echikunwoke will play Lt. Gabrielle Bennett, who started her career in Philly PD as Jason's trainee. His departure under clouded circumstances was followed by her fast rise. Not a coincidence. She is tough, ambitious, and has a cutting sense of humor. She supports getting things done by any means necessary, just so long as nothing comes back to bite her.