Nicole Kidman Is Kay Scarpetta, Jamie Lee Curtis Her Sister in First Look at Patricia Cornwell Thriller Adaptation
Kidman's Scarpetta can be spied at the 45-second mark in the Prime Video sizzle reel above, followed by a glimpse of Academy Award and Emmy winner Jamie Lee Curtis as Kay's sister Dorothy.
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Ordered to series last September, the mystery-thriller stars Academy Award and Emmy winner Kidman as medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, who returns to Virginia (and her former job) amid complex personal and professional relationships — including the one with her sister, Dorothy.
Additional cast members include Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) as Dorothy's daughter, Lucy Farinelli-Watson; Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) as former detective Pete Marino; Simon Baker (The Mentalist) as FBI profiler Benton Wesley; Rosy McEwen (The Alienist) as Past Kay Scarpetta; and, fittingly, Jake Cannavale — Bobby's real-life son — as Past Pete Marino.
Additionally, in recurring roles, you have Sosie Bacon (Mare of Easttown) as reporter Abby Turnball, Janet Montgomery (New Amsterdam) as Lucy's wife Janet, Stephanie Faracy (Nobody Wants This) as Kay's inherited assistant Maggie, Mike Vogel (Under the Dome) as city attorney Bill Boltz, and Amanda Righetti (The Mentalist) as Past Dorothy.
Cornwell's tagliatella bolognese-loving Scarpetta character was first introduced in 1990's Postmortem, and has appeared in nearly 30 novels since then — most recently, Identity Unknown (which hit shelves last autumn), with Sharp Force on deck for an October 2025 release.
Both Kidman and Curtis (whose Comet Pictures back in 2021 secured rights to the Kay Scarpetta novels) act as executive producers on the series, alongside Cornwell, writer/showrunner Liz Sarnoff (Barry), Jason Blum, Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickie, Chris McCumber, Per Saari,David Gordon Green and Amy Sayres.
Scarpetta — which is already renewed for Season 2 — began filming last October, in Nashville, and wrapped in March; a release date has not yet been set.
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