Hugh Laurie Joins ‘The Trial Of Louise Woodward’ At HBO (EXCLUSIVE)

EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Laurie is the newest addition to The Trial of Louise Woodward, HBO‘s true-crime restricted collection from creator Matthew Barry. He joins a solid that has Catriona Chandler within the title function, which additionally consists of Joanne Froggatt, Meghann Fahy, Sagar Radia, and Chloë Sevigny.

This marks Laurie’s third outing with HBO after Veep and Avenue 5 – each comedies from Armando Iannucci.

The Trial of Louise Woodward tells the stunning true story of how, in 1997, an 18-year-old British au pair (Chandler) was accused of shaking to demise a child left in her care by her American host household, setting off a world media firestorm because the trial unfolds in full view of each the British and American public.

Laurie performs Choose Hiller B. Zobel, the Massachusetts Superior Court docket decide who presided over the homicide trial. As beforehand introduced, Froggatt performs Louise’s mom, Susan, with Fahy and Radia as Deborah and Sunil Eappen — mother and father of the sufferer, Matthew Eappen. Sevigny performs Louise’s protection lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp.

Barry wrote the collection, serves as showrunner and is exec producing alongside Susanne Bier, who directs all episodes, in addition to Frank Spotnitz, Emily Feller, Tobi de Graaff, and Antoine Douaihy. Large Mild Productions and Anton TV are the manufacturing corporations.

An Emmy nominee and three-time Golden Globe winner maybe greatest identified for starring in Fox’s medical drama Home, Laurie will subsequent be seen starring reverse Amy Poehler within the new Peacock comedy Dig from Parks and Recreation‘s Mike Schur. Tailored from Kate Myers’ bestselling novel Excavations, the collection premieres November 23. He’s additionally the EP & star of Apple TV’s The Needed Man, a thriller from Hijack and Lupin creator George Kay that premieres January 6.

After incomes a Golden Globe and his seventh Emmy nom for his work within the John Le Carré collection The Evening Supervisor, he’s set to return to Le Carré’s world reverse Matthew Macfadyen and Charlie Hunnam within the forthcoming restricted collection Legacy of Spies from BBC and MGM+. He’s represented by WME, Hamilton Hodell and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.