Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Casting News - Phylicia Rashad and Wendy Raquel Robinson Join 'The Chi'; 'Sugar' Adds Shea Whigham and Raymond Lee

Casting News - April 8, 2025

AppleTV+'s Sugar and Showtime's The Chi.






SHOWTIME's THE CHI
  • Phylicia Rashad, Wendy Raquel Robinson and Karrueche Tran will appear as guest stars on the drama's upcoming seventh season. Rashad previously starred for eight seasons in NBC's The Cosby Show and is a two-time Tony Award winner for the plays A Raisin in the Sun and Skeleton Crew. Robinson starred for six seasons in The WB's The Steve Harvey Show and eleven seasons in The CW/BET/Paramount+'s The Game. Tran starred for four seasons in TNT's Claws and recurred on Peacock's Bel-Air.
  • Rashad will play Renee, one of the few people who sees Pastor Zeke (Daniel J. Watts) for who he really is and can get through to him.
  • Robinson will play Riley Dalton, sweet but also direct. She has suffered great loss, which allows her to help others during the most trying times in their lives.
  • Tran will play Zuri, a woman who, no matter how much she's trying to fix her problems, trouble seems to find her.
APPLE TV+'s SUGAR
  • Shea Whigham, Raymond Lee and Sasha Calle have been cast as new series regulars on the drama's upcoming second season. Whigham previously starred for five seasons in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, two seasons in HBO's Perry Mason and in the Starz limited series Gaslit. Lee starred for two seasons in NBC's Quantum Leap. Calle starred for four years in CBS' The Young and the Restless.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters they will be playing.