Oscar winner Nicole Kidman is joining the stable of the Taylor Sheridan series after upgrading what was originally only a producing credit on the spy thriller “Lioness” to include a major supporting role in the show.
The story is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.
Zoe Saldana stars as Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives to ready them for dangerous assignments in the field.
Kidman will play Kaitlyn Meade, the CIA’s senior supervisor who has had a long career playing the politics game. Meade must juggle the trappings of being a woman in the high-ranking intelligence community, a wife who longs for the attention she herself can’t even give, and a mentor to someone veering suspiciously close to the rocky road she has found herself on.
Kidman will also executive produce alongside Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Saldaña, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Jill Wagner, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Malone and John Hillcoat.
The show joins Sheridan’s ever-expanding slate at Paramount, which includes “Yellowstone,” “1883,” “1923,” “Tulsa King” and “Mayor of Kingstown” along with the upcoming “Land Man” and “1883: The Bass Reeves Story”.
Kidman also has a role in the upcoming Amazon series “Expats,” and will play two queens in upcoming films – “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” and the animated “Spellbound”.
Source: THR
