Casting News: The 100 Vet Joins Fox Drama, Chrissy Metz's Apple Role and More
Richard Harmon will star opposite Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli in Fox's midseason drama Memory of a Killer. Per Deadline, he'll play Joe, 'a hitman on the rise working for Angelo (Dempsey) and Dutch (Imperioli) in their clandestine crime business.'
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Harmon played survivor John Murphy on The CW's post-apocalyptic drama The 100, recurring for the first two seasons before becoming a series regular in Season 3. His other TV credits include The Flash, Continuum and The Killing. He also co-starred in the horror sequel Final Destination: Bloodlines, released in theaters earlier this year.
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* Chrissy Metz (This Is Us) has been cast in Apple TV+'s as-yet-untitled crime drama based on Lars Kepler's Joona Linna books, Variety reports. She joins an ensemble that already includes Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz, Stephen Graham, Bill Camp and Rory Culkin.
* Natasha Henstridge (Species) and Joshua Close (Fargo) have joined Josh Harnett in the cast of an upcoming Netflix series about 'a mysterious sea creature terrorizing a remote seaside town,' according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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