Two-time Oscar nominated and Emmy-winning actor Richard Jenkins has joined the solid of Felony, Prime Video‘s upcoming drama collection based mostly on Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel collection.
Felony is an interlocking universe of crime tales based mostly on the graphic novels.
Jenkins will play Ivan, Leo’s dad’s greatest pal, who has at all times been an uncle determine to him. He was a robber and prison, however is now at the moment affected by dementia. Leo is making an attempt to take care of him however realizes he’s extra work than he can deal with.
Brubaker, who penned the pilot script, will co-showrun the TV collection with crime fiction writer Jordan Harper (Hightown). Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the primary 4 episodes.
Felony is produced by Amazon MGM Studios. The collection is government produced by Brubaker and Harper, alongside Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, and Phillip Barnett. Legendary Tv may even function an government producer.
Some of the in-demand character actors in Hollywood, Jenkins has been in additional than 80 movies over the course of his profession. Along with his Oscar-nominated performances in The Form of Water and The Customer, Jenkins’ credit embody Nightmare Alley, Bone Tomahawk, Cabin within the Woods, Step Brothers, Eat Pray Love, Killing Me Softly, Jack Reacher, The Firm You Preserve, Flirting With Catastrophe, The Witches of Eastwick, North Nation, Burn After Studying, There’s One thing About Mary, Random Hearts, and The Man Who Wasn’t There.
Jenkins was largely not too long ago seen in Ryan Murphy’s Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, for which he obtained Golden Globe and two Emmy Award nominations. His different tv credit embody Berlin Station, Olive Kitteridge – for which he gained an Emmy Award for Excellent Actor in a Restricted Collection, and HBO’s Six Toes Underneath. He’s repped by Gersh.