EXCLUSIVE: The solid for ESX Leisure’s horror title The Necklace retains mushrooming with Nip/Tuck and Fairly Little Liars actress Roma Maffia becoming a member of.
Already solid within the Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz directed, Ali Afshar government produced film are sisters Madeleine & Violet McGraw (respectively from M3GAN and The Black Cellphone), Henry Thomas, Sarah Lind, Felix Solis, Jacob Moran, Christina Moore and Brynne Kurland.
The Necklace facilities across the Davis household who’re coping with robust instances in 1960. Laura Davis has separated from her husband Frank as a result of his unpredictable mood, fueled by alcohol. As Laura returns to work as a nurse, her daughters, 11-year-old Ellen (Violet McGraw) and 16-year-old Judy (Madeleine McGraw), grapple with the adjustments of their household dynamics. The plot thickens when Frank makes an attempt to win Laura again with an attractive vintage necklace, which seems to be a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from way back, placing Laura and her daughters in grave hazard.
Maffia will play Beatrice, a psychic who works for the police occasionally, and who agrees to assist out Laura Shaw and her daughters with their mysterious necklace.
Maffia performed the good, no-nonsense anesthesiologist, Dr. Liz Cruz, on the hit FX and Golden Globe profitable drama, Nip/Tuck. The actress began her profession performing off-Broadway, off-off Broadway and in regional productions starting from Shakespeare to Sam Shephard. At a profit studying for the New Group in New York, she was requested by casting director Jane Jenkins to audition for a job in director Ron Howard’s characteristic movie The Paper. A run on Chicago Hope follows on which Maffia performed Adam Arkin’s secretary, Angela. Different roles embrace Barry Levinson’s characteristic take of Michael Crichton’s bestseller, Disclosure, John Badham’s Nick of Time, reverse Christopher Walken and Johnny Depp; Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Double Jeopardy reverse Ashley Judd.
Maffia’s extra characteristic credit embrace I Am Sam, Kiss the Women, Holes, Issues You Can Inform Simply by Taking a look at Her, Yonkers Joe, and Kingshighway.
Different TV credit embrace 4 seasons on NBC’s primetime collection Profiler in addition to TV motion pictures Consensual Relations for NBC; HBO’s Mistrial with Invoice Pullman; and Showtime’s The Defenders. Maffia had recurring roles on NBC’s Legislation & Order and ER.
Maffia is repped by SMS Expertise.
Daniel Aspromonte and Christina Moore are producing The Necklace, with Violet McGraw, Madeleine McGraw, Jackie McGraw, and ESX Leisure’s Afshar serving as EPs. John Ducey (A Hollywood Christmas, That’s Amor) wrote the screenplay.