{"id":427620,"date":"2026-05-14T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/427620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:22:11","slug":"jodie-comer-cast-in-hbos-the-chain-paul-anthony-kelly-joins-american-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/427620\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodie Comer Cast In HBO’s The Chain, Paul Anthony Kelly Joins American Horror Story"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Emmy winner Jodie Comer is taking her talents to HBO.<\/p>\n

The “Killing Eve” star will headline the HBO limited series “The Chain,”\u00a0TVLine has learned. She’ll play Rachel, “a suburban mom who must consider the unthinkable when her daughter is kidnapped,”\u00a0according to the official description.<\/p>\n

Based on the bestselling novel by\u00a0Adrian McKinty, “The Chain”\u00a0follows a criminal scheme where a parent’s child is kidnapped and the only way to get them back is for the parent to kidnap another child. “The Leftovers”\u00a0alum Damon Lindelof will write and executive-produce the limited series, which is said to be “expanding the mythology”\u00a0of McKinty’s novel,\u00a0and will serve as showrunner as well. HBO handed the project a straight-to-series order in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Comer is best known to TV fans for playing killer-for-hire Villanelle in the BBC America thriller “Killing Eve,” a role that won her the Emmy for best lead actress in a drama in 2019. Her other TV credits include “The White Princess” and the British COVID medical drama “Help.”<\/p>\n

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*\u00a0Paul Anthony Kelly, who recently starred as John F. Kennedy Jr. in FX’s “Love Story,”\u00a0has joined the Season 13 cast of “American Horror Story,”\u00a0re-teaming with producer Ryan Murphy. No details on his character have been released. Season 13 of “AHS,”\u00a0with returning stars Jessica Lange<\/a>, Sarah Paulson, and Evan Peters, will air this fall on FX.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Conan O’Brien will return as host of the Oscars for the third consecutive year when it airs\u00a0Sunday, March 14 at 7 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Netflix’s Vegas-set drama “The Roman,” starring Oscar Isaac<\/a> and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, has added Betty Gilpin (“GLOW”), Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”), and David Costabile (“Breaking Bad”)\u00a0to its cast, Variety<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Michael Ealy (“Power Book II: Ghost”) has joined Matt Dillon and Will Patton in the cast of MGM+’s reboot of “The Magnificent Seven,”\u00a0according to Deadline<\/a>. He’ll play\u00a0Vin Tanner, the role played by Steve McQueen in the 1960 original.<\/p>\n


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