Fox
has announced that Emmy award winning actress Anna Gunn (Breaking
Bad) and Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver have joined the cast of
Gracepoint, which is the remake of the popular British drama series.
The
two actresses will join David Tennant who will reprise his role from
the original series in this remake, which also counts with
Broadchurch's creator Chris Chibnall as the executive-produced and
writer for the first episode.
Gunn
will play the role of Detective Ellie Miller, a happily married wife
and mother of two, who is forced to work to her first murder case
under the wing of her difficult superior Tennant. Gunn's role was
first played by actress Olivia Coleman in the UK version of
Broadchurch.
Weaver
will play a mysterious, harsh and not very talkative woman that lives
in an RV.
Gracepoint
will premiere on the 2014-2015 season.
Press
Release:
Emmy
Award-winning actress Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad”) and two-time
Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver (“Silver Linings Playbook”)
will join Welsh BAFTA winner David Tennant (“Broadchurch,” “Dr.
Who”) in the highly anticipated event series GRACEPOINT, set to
premiere during the 2014-2015 season on FOX.
Gunn,
who won an Emmy Award this year for her role as “Skyler White” on
“Breaking Bad,” will play Detective ELLIE MILLER, a happily
married wife and mother who is looking forward to a promised
promotion. When the job goes to outsider Detective EMMETT CARVER
(Tennant), Ellie is disgruntled – but her disappointment quickly
fades in light of tragedy, and she must work her very first murder
case with her prickly new partner. As the case progresses, she’ll
have to look at her hometown, and those she cares about, through a
different prism.
Weaver
has been cast as SUSAN WRIGHT, a glowering, mysterious woman who is
new to town and lives in the RV park, alone with her dog. She works
various cleaning and odd jobs and prefers to remain anonymous, but
has a dark history kept fiercely hidden.
Set
in an American town, GRACEPOINT is the American version of the U.K.’s
most-watched new drama of the year, “Broadchurch.” The gripping
crime series follows the tragic and mysterious death of a young boy
found dead on an idyllic beach surrounded by rocks and a jutting
cliff-face, from where he may have fallen. Although the cause of his
death remains unsolved, the picturesque seaside town where the
tragedy occurred is at the heart of a major police investigation and
a nationwide media frenzy.
Anna
Gunn has emerged as one of the most compelling actresses on both
stage and screen, capping off a critically-acclaimed five-season run
on the cable hit “Breaking Bad” with this year’s Emmy Award for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, for her portrayal
of “Skyler White.” In 2004, Gunn landed her breakout television
role, playing “Martha Bullock” on cable’s “Deadwood,” later
receiving a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast in
2006. Gunn’s other television credits include “The Practice,”
“Six Feet Under,” “ER,” “Boston Legal,” “Law &
Order” and “Seinfeld.” In film, Gunn was featured in “Nobody’s
Baby,” with Gary Oldman and Mary Steenburgen; and “Enemy of the
State,” opposite Jon Voight.
An
Australian theater, film, and television actress, Weaver made her
film debut in the United States with “The Five Year Engagement.”
She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress
in “The Silver Linings Playbook,” co-starring Jennifer Lawrence,
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Her performance in the 2011 film
“Animal Kingdom” garnered her Academy Award and Golden Globe
Award nominations. Weaver currently can be seen in “Parkland,”
with Paul Giamatti, Marcia Gay Harden and Zac Efron. She will next be
seen in Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” with Colin Firth
and Emma Stone, “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks,” with Gena
Rowlands and Julian Sands, “The Voices” with Anna Kendrik and
Ryan Reynolds, and “Reclaim” with John Cusack and Ryan Phillipe.
Produced
by Shine America in association with Kudos and Imaginary Friends,
GRACEPOINT is scheduled to begin filming in January, for broadcast
during the 2014-2015 season. The gripping crime series will be
executive-produced by the original series’ creator, Chris Chibnall
(“Dr. Who,” “Camelot”), with Shine America’s Carolyn
Bernstein (“The Bridge”), Kudos’ Jane Featherstone (“The
Hour,” “Utopia”), Dan Futterman (“Capote,” “In
Treatment”) and Anya Epstein (“In Treatment,” “Homicide”).
Futterman and Epstein will serve as showrunners. Chibnall will write
the premiere episode and James Strong (“Broadchurch,” “Downton
Abbey”) is signed on to direct. The series will be distributed by
Shine International.
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