EXCLUSIVE: Constance Zimmer (UnReal) has been tapped for a recurring role in Ryan Murphy‘s FX limited series Love Story, headlined by Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon, Deadline has learned.
The first installment of the scripted anthology series about sweeping true love stories focuses on JFK Jr. (Kelly) and Carolyn Bessette (Pidgeon). It chronicles their fairytale American royalty courtship and wedding as well as as the couple’s turbulent relationship under the relentless microscope of tabloid media, leading to their tragic deaths in a plane crash off the Massachusetts coast.
Zimmer is believed to be playing Carolyn’s mother Ann Messina Freeman, who lost two of her three daughters in the crash, Carolyn and her sister Lauren (Sydney Lemmon).
The cast of Love Story also includes Naomi Watts as JFK Jr’s mother Jackie O, Grace Gummer as Caroline Kennedy, Alessandro Nivola as fashion designed Calvin Klein, and Omari K. Chancellor as fellow fashion designer Gordon Henderson.
Murphy executive produces with Brad Simpson, Nina Jacobson, DV Divencentis, Connor Hines and Kim Rosenstock. The series comes from 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television.
Zimmer, an Emmy nominee for UnReal, will next be seen in Season 4 of the Netflix series The Lincoln Lawyer. She recently recurred on CBS’ Fire Country, ABC’s Big Sky, Peacock’s The Calling, Amazon’s Harlan Coben’s Shelter and Freeform’s Good Trouble. Zimmer also directed several episodes of the latter series, along with her first feature film in 2023.
She and Abby Epstein have doc-theater collaboration The Midlife Monologues now in development, and a media company, The Midlife Collective, dedicated to uplifting women and the narratives around aging through community storytelling. Zimmer also launched a podcast with pro-aging social media influencer and writer Heidi Clements, Talk Fifty To Me.
Zimmer is repped Sweeney Entertainment and Innovative Artists.