EXCLUSIVE: Sosie Bacon (Smile, Mare of Easttown), Amanda Righetti (Reagan, The Mentalist), Janet Montgomery (1923, New Amsterdam), Stephanie Faracy (No person Needs This, Uncoupled) and Mike Vogel (Intercourse/Life) have joined the recurring forged of Prime Video‘s Scarpetta.
They be a part of the beforehand introduced Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis, who will each additionally government produce; Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker, Rosy McEwen, Jake Cannavale and Ariana DeBose.
Primarily based on Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling e-book sequence, Scarpetta follows Kay Scarpetta (Kidman), Chief Medical Examiner, as she returns to Virginia and resumes her former place with complicated relationships, each private {and professional} – together with her sister Dorothy (Curtis), with loads of grudges and secrets and techniques to uncover.
Bacon performs Abby Turnball, a prize-winning reporter; Righetti performs Previous Dorothy; Montgomery performs Janet, Lucy’s spouse; Faracy performs Current Maggie, Scarpetta’s inherited assistant from her predecessor; Vogel performs metropolis legal professional Invoice Boltz.
The sequence was formally picked up for 2 seasons earlier this month with Deadline solely revealing the mission was within the works in early 2023.
Liz Sarnoff (Barry, Misplaced) will write, government produce, and showrun. David Gordon Inexperienced (Halloween, Stronger) is ready to direct the primary two episodes.
Kidman will government produce for Blossom Movies, and Curtis will government produce for Comet Photos. Cornwell will government produce for P & S Initiatives alongside Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, and Chris McCumber for Blumhouse Tv and Per Saari for Blossom Movies. David Gordon Inexperienced and Amy Sayres additionally function government producers. The sequence is produced by Blumhouse Tv and Amazon MGM Studios in affiliation with Blossom Movies and Comet Photos.
Bacon was final seen within the field workplace hit Smile, for Paramount and Temple Hill. On the TV aspect, she notably starred in Jason Katims’ sequence As We See It for Amazon and had a serious position reverse Kate Winslet in HBO’s hit miniseries, Mare of Easttown. She recurred within the second season of Narcos: Mexico on Netflix and beforehand starred because the lead in HBO’s Right here and Now, created by Alan Ball, reverse Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins. On the large display, she will be seen in Mary Harron’s Charlie Says, which premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant. Bacon is repped by Gersh, Vary and Schreck, Rose, Dapello, Adams, Berlin, & Dunham.
Righetti’s breakout position was because the trust-fund squandering, world-traveling black sheep, “Hailey Nichol,” on The O.C. which she adopted up with the lead position of “Tessa Lewis” in 2004′s North Shore and the drama sequence Reunion as “Jenna Moretti,” all of which hail from FOX. She led Michael Bay’s remake, Friday the thirteenth, whereas filming her sequence, The Mentalist for CBS. Different movie credit embrace Captain America: The First Avenger and Position Fashions. Most just lately, Righetti starred in Reagan reverse Dennis Quaid and Jon Voight. She is repped by Buchwald and Atlas Artists.
Montgomery is presently filming 1923 for creator Taylor Sheridan. She most just lately completed filming Jonathan Baker’s upcoming movie Destiny, the place she stars alongside Faye Dunaway because the youthful model of the identical character, ‘Tilly.’ She most just lately starred within the Paramount+ sequence, The Ex-Spouse and NBC’s New Amsterdam and Quantum Leap. Her earlier TV credit embrace NBC’s This Is Us, WGN America’s Salem, Netflix’s Black Mirror, HBO’s Entourage and PBS’ Downton Abbey; and on the large display, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Our Fool Brother. She is repped by CAA, Hamilton Hodell and Untitled Leisure.
Faracy presently stars as Kristin Bell’s mom within the Netflix comedy No person Needs This following her work in Uncoupled additionally for the streamer. She made her debut within the Warren Beatty movie Heaven Can Wait. Extra credit embrace Hocus Pocus, Mike and Dave Want Wedding ceremony Dates, the multi-award-winning HBO movie Temple Grandin, Dangerous Trainer and The 5-12 months Engagement. TV credit embrace ABC’s Fashionable Household, NBC’s Frasier, NBC’s Will and Grace, in addition to Ugly Betty and Gray’s Anatomy for ABC. She is repped by SDB Companions.
Vogel most just lately starred within the second season of Netflix’s sequence Intercourse/Life reverse Sarah Shahi, in addition to the unbiased movie Assortment for director Marianna Palka, and Netflix’s thriller Secret Obsession. Different current works embrace American Horror Story for FX and Fantasy Island for Columbia Photos. He’s repped by Gersh and Supervisor Geordie Frey,
