Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid’s Story), and Shea Whigham (Joker) have been tapped as sequence regulars on Netflix‘s new drama sequence Dying by Lightning, becoming a member of beforehand forged Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Betty Gilpin and Nick Offerman. Moreover, Stephen McKinley Henderson (Civil Conflict), Paula Malcomson (Parish) and Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey) are set as recurring on the sequence, government produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Paula Malcomson and Tuppence Middleton
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Created, written and government produced by Mike Makowsky primarily based on the novel Future Of The Republic by Candice Millard, Dying by Lightning tells the stranger-than-fiction true story of James Garfield (Shannon), reluctant twentieth president of america, and his biggest admirer Charles Guiteau (Macfadyen) — the person who would come to kill him.
Whitford will play Secretary of State James Blaine. Whigham will painting Senator Roscoe Conkling. McKinley Henderson will play Senator Blanche Bruce, Malcomson will painting Franny Scoville, sister of Charles Guiteau; and Middleton joins as Kate Chase Sprague.
Bernie Caulfield additionally government produces. Matt Ross (28 Resort Rooms) is director and government producer of all episodes.
Whitford performs Commander Lawrence on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Story, which is headed to its sixth and remaining season. The function has earned him his third Emmy. (He beforehand gained for The West Wing and Clear.) Whitford recurs on AMC’s drama Parish reverse Giancarlo Esposito. On the movie facet, he was just lately seen in Rosaline. Whitford is repped by Gersh, Greenlight Administration, and Michael Mahan of Peikoff Mahan.
Whigham had a significant function in Mission: Unattainable – Useless Reckoning, which he’s reprising within the upcoming eighth film within the franchise. In TV, he just lately recurred reverse Shannon on Showtime’s Waco: The Aftermath and appeared on The Righteous Gems and Bass Reeves. Whigham is repped by Vary Media Companions and WME.