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Gabourey Sidibe joins ‘American Horror Story’ Season 3 Cast
American Horror Story: Coven has recruited a Precious star for their upcoming new season. Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe has joined the third season cast of the acclaimed FX drama series, showrunner Ryan Murphy announced on Twitter Monday. “Thrilled to announce Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe is joining the cast of ‘American Horror Story: Coven,’ Murphy tweeted. No details were given on what role... Read More »
‘Wire’ alum Larry Gilliard Jr. joins AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ Cast
The Walking Dead has found another black actor from HBO’s The Wire to join it’s upcoming fourth season cast. Larry Gilliard Jr has been cast as a series regular in AMC’s hit zombie series The Walking Dead. Gilliard will play Bob Stookie, a former Army medic who is “deeply haunted by his past (both before and after the zombie... Read More »
Meet RECTIFY’s Johnny Ray Gill (Video)
Johnny Ray Gill made his return to the small screen earlier this week on the two-hour series premiere of Rectify, Sundance channel’s new drama about a man released after 19 years in prison for murder. The rising star plays Kerwin Whitman, a prison inmate sitting on death row with a strong will to live. His character befriends the show’s... Read More »
Corbin Bleu to make ‘One Life To Live’ debut
Corbin Bleu has been added to the cast of One Life to Live. The High School Musical star will invade laptops and video streaming devices next week when the long-running soap opera returns as a web series. Bleu will play Jeffrey King, a brand new character who works as a digital consultant at The Banner (Viki Buchanan’s Newspaper). His... Read More »
Chris Rock Joins ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ Cast + Behind The Scenes Video
Chris Rock has been added to the star-studded cast of BET’s The Real Husbands of Hollywood for it’s second season, Blackactors.net has learned. “He’s a guy whose advised me and helped me make steps in the right direction throughout my career, said executive producer Kevin Hart. “To have him accept an invitation is huge to me. Its just another... Read More »
Jennifer Hudson, Ernie Hudson and Octavia Spencer to star in Lifetime’s ‘Call Me Crazy’
The Lifetime Original Movie event Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, which brings together an all-star ensemble cast with five interwoven stories about how everlasting bonds of love and family can overcome life’s most challenging hurdles, will make its world premiere on Saturday, April 20, at 8:00pm ET/PT. Through the five shorts named after each title character — Lucy, Eddie,... Read More »
Jasika Nicole to Guest Star on ABC’s ‘Scandal’
Fringe alum Jasika Nicole has booked a guest-starring role on ABC’s Scandal, Blackactors.net has learned. Nicole, best known as Astrid Farnsworth on the cult Fox drama, will appear on the April 11th episode, Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes announced on Twitter late Wednesday. While Nicole’s role on the show is currently under wraps, Rhimes noted it would be “very surprising.”... Read More »
Lucien Laviscount Joins CW’s ‘The Selection’
CW’s The Selection has recast the role of Aspen for it’s second pilot. British actor Lucien Laviscount has landed a leading role in the network’s retooled drama pilot The Selection – a Hunger Games-esque drama based on a book series by Kiera Cass. Set 300 years in the future, an epic romance centering on a working class young woman chosen by lottery to participate in a competition with... Read More »
Omar Epps to Star in ABC’s ‘The Returned’
ABC’s The Returned has enlisted the help of a ‘House’ alum to lead their new pilot. Omar Epps, who played Dr. Eric Foreman on the long-running Fox drama, has been tapped to star in the network’s supernatural drama The Returned, Blackactors.net has learned. Based on a novel by Jason Mott, The Returned chronicles how the lives of the people... Read More »
Benjamin Charles Watson to Recur on AMC’s ‘The Killing’
L.A. Complex‘s Benjamin Charles Watson has landed a recurring role on the upcoming third season of AMC’s The Killing. The Jamaican-Canadian actor will recur in at least four episodes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Watson will portray Gay Ray, a transgender teen who “left home because of a domineering and bigoted adoptive father and has found acceptance and love in his... Read More »
Derek Luke to Co-Star in CBS drama pilot ‘Second Sight’
Derek Luke has earned another shot at a television career by landing a co-starring role in the CBS pilot Second Sight, Blackactors.net has learned. Based on the British series by Paula Milne, Second Sight is a gothic psychological thriller about Detective Ross Tanner (Jason Lee), the lead detective with the New Orleans Police Department, who hunts down killers while secretly battling an ocular disease that causes him to... Read More »
Collins Pennie To Recur On ABC’s ‘Revenge’
Another mystery man from Emily’s past is making his way to “Revenge.” According to TVLine, “HawthoRNe” vet Collins Pennie will recur on the ABC series as Eli James, Emily’s (Emily VanCamp) long lost foster brother. Pennie will be making his “Revenge” debut this Sunday, March. 10 at 9/8c. In addition to “Hawthorne,” Pennie’s credits include “NCIS: Los Angeles” and... Read More »
Eamonn Walker to Guest Star as Frederick Douglass on BBC America’s ‘Copper’
BBC America’s Copper has cast it’s Frederick Douglas. Eamonn Walker has been tapped to play abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the upcoming second season of the network’s highest-rated drama series. Set in 1860s New York City, the series centers on Kevin Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones), an intense, rugged Irish-immigrant cop working the city’s notorious Five Points neighborhood and struggling to maintain... Read More »
Michael Ealy will play a robot cop in Fox’s Untitled Drama Pilot
J.J Abrams has found his android cop for a new futuristic series he’s producing for Fox. Michael Ealy has been tapped to play a key role in the network’s untitled action–drama pilot. The pilot is described as “an action-packed buddy cop show, set in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.” Ealy will play the android police officer who’s much more... Read More »
‘Downton Abbey’ to introduce it’s first black character
Dowton Abbey is on the verge of diversifying it’s cast by adding a black character into the mix. The upcoming season of the Emmy Award-winning period drama will feature it’s first black cast member, Blackactors.net has learned. According to British tabloid The Sun, a casting notice was sent out to top agents searching for a black actor in their late 20s to portray a Jazz singer named Jack Ross. The notice describes the character... Read More »
Nicole Beharie and Orlando Jones join Fox’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ pilot
Nicole Beharie and Orlando Jones have been cast in “Sleepy Hollow,” Fox’s supernatural thriller series pilot from Star Trek Into Darkness writers Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci. Beharie, whose breakout role was playing Michael Fassbender’s lover in the 2011 erotic feature Shame, will play female lead Abbie Archer, the local town sheriff who teams up with an 18th century... Read More »
