Peacock’s “Queer as Folk” reboot has added Jesse James Keitel as a series regular.
The update is based on the landmark 1999 series from Russell T. Davis and is said to chronicle a diverse group of friends in New Orleans, whose lives are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy. Keitel will play a trans, semi-reformed party girl who is struggling to grow up.
The series is created, written and executive produced by Stephen Dunn, who will also direct the pilot episode. Universal Content Productions is producing the straight-to-series order for Peacock.
Keitel is a trailblazer as one of the few out trans non-binary stars working in television, particularly in the primetime network space where she broke out on the David E. Kelley ABC drama “Big Sky.” There she played Jerrie Kennedy, a woman kidnapped in a human trafficking plot. Her additional credits include the Showtime original film “Fluidity” and the Netflix original “Alex Strangelove.
The update is based on the landmark 1999 series from Russell T. Davis and is said to chronicle a diverse group of friends in New Orleans, whose lives are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy. Keitel will play a trans, semi-reformed party girl who is struggling to grow up.
The series is created, written and executive produced by Stephen Dunn, who will also direct the pilot episode. Universal Content Productions is producing the straight-to-series order for Peacock.
Keitel is a trailblazer as one of the few out trans non-binary stars working in television, particularly in the primetime network space where she broke out on the David E. Kelley ABC drama “Big Sky.” There she played Jerrie Kennedy, a woman kidnapped in a human trafficking plot. Her additional credits include the Showtime original film “Fluidity” and the Netflix original “Alex Strangelove.
- 8/17/2021
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jesse James Keitel (Fluidity) is set as a lead opposite Katheryn Winnick and Ryan Phillippe in The Big Sky, ABC’s straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley. Based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box’s Cassie Dewell series of novels, The Big Sky hails from A+E Studios, which will produce in association with 20th Century Fox Television, part of Disney TV Studios.
Written by Kelley, The Big Sky is a procedural thriller in which private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.
Keitel will play Jerrie. A gender-fluid artist with big dreams,...
Written by Kelley, The Big Sky is a procedural thriller in which private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.
Keitel will play Jerrie. A gender-fluid artist with big dreams,...
- 3/10/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Tommy Dorfman, the young star of the Netflix original “13 Reasons Why,” has joined the cast of “Jane the Virgin.”
Dorfman has signed on for an arc in the fifth and final season of the CW series, which nabbed lead Gina Rodriguez a Golden Globe in 2015 for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series.
Dorfman will play Bobby, described as a chameleon and associate of the show’s recurring drug-lord character Sin Rostro (who also aides criminals in getting plastic surgery to conceal their identities). Bobby is sent to Miami on a specific — and nefarious — mission.
Also Read: '13 Reasons Why' Star Katherine Langford to Lead Netflix's 'Cursed'
Dorfman is repped by Anonymous Content, Headline Talent, Img and attorney Cary Dobkin.
He’ll next appear in Linda Yellen’s feature film “Fluidity,” about the sexual lives and identities of New York millennials, alongside Miles McMillan and Nico Tortorella.
Dorfman has signed on for an arc in the fifth and final season of the CW series, which nabbed lead Gina Rodriguez a Golden Globe in 2015 for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy TV Series.
Dorfman will play Bobby, described as a chameleon and associate of the show’s recurring drug-lord character Sin Rostro (who also aides criminals in getting plastic surgery to conceal their identities). Bobby is sent to Miami on a specific — and nefarious — mission.
Also Read: '13 Reasons Why' Star Katherine Langford to Lead Netflix's 'Cursed'
Dorfman is repped by Anonymous Content, Headline Talent, Img and attorney Cary Dobkin.
He’ll next appear in Linda Yellen’s feature film “Fluidity,” about the sexual lives and identities of New York millennials, alongside Miles McMillan and Nico Tortorella.
- 9/13/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
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