{"id":423877,"date":"2026-01-22T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423877\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:39:08","slug":"rosanna-arquette-cast-in-prime-videos-ballard-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423877\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosanna Arquette Cast In Prime Video’s ‘Ballard’ Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Rosanna Arquette<\/a> (Pulp Fiction,\u00a0Desperately Seeking Susan) has joined the cast of Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s Ballard<\/a> for its upcoming second season. She is set to recur as Jenny Ballard, Ren\u00e9e Ballard\u2019s (Maggie Q) estranged mom.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Ren\u00e9e Ballard book series by Michael Connelly, Ren\u00e9e\u2019s mom was named Makani. She left her husband and their daughter after his drowning death, which became a pivotal moment in Ren\u00e9e\u2019s life. In the novels, Ren\u00e9e is established as being of mixed heritage, with roots in Hawaii on her father\u2019s side. Q herself is also mixed heritage. She was born and raised in Hawaii and is of Vietnamese descent on her mother\u2019s side, as well as having Polish and Irish ancestry on her father\u2019s side, who is American. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the characters\u2019 names may differ, we understand that Jenny\u2019s story will be similar to Makani\u2019s, with the addition of new details surrounding her life. Jenny is described as a \u201cdamaged free spirit\u201d who has always tried to fill a void inside, sources close to production reveal.<\/p>\n

\n\tBallard, a spinoff of the popular Bosch franchise based on Connelly\u2019s writings, follows Detective Ren\u00e9e Ballard as she leads the LAPD\u2019s new and underfunded cold case division, tackling the city\u2019s most challenging long-forgotten crimes with empathy and relentless determination. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs she peels back layers of crimes spanning decades, including a serial killer\u2019s string of murders and a murdered John Doe, she soon uncovers a dangerous conspiracy within the LAPD. With the help of her volunteer team and retired detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver), Detective Ballard navigates personal trauma, professional challenges, and life-threatening dangers to expose the truth.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series also stars Courtney Taylor, Rebecca Field, Victoria Moroles, Amy Hill and John Carroll Lynch. Titus Welliver, who famously portrayed Harry Bosch, a mentor figure and ally of Ren\u00e9e, has appeared as a guest star on Season 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduction on Season 2 will take place in Los Angeles, thanks, in part, to the\u00a0$14.84M tax credit<\/a>\u00a0the show received from the California Film Commission. We hear shooting will begin in early February.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Deadline noted in an earlier story, \u201cThe well reviewed show (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) has been a strong performer,\u00a0generating 2.5B minutes viewed in the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0from its July 9 binge release through the end of the month and charting on Nielsen\u2019s weekly Top 10 for streaming originals over several weeks, including a #4 finish with 619M minutes viewed for the week of July 21.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally,\u00a0Ballard\u00a0was one of three Asian-led shows trending in the top 3 spots on Prime Video\u2019s Top Ten TV list in August. The additional titles included\u00a0Butterfly,\u00a0starring and produced by Daniel Dae Kim, and\u00a0The Summer I Turned Pretty, led by Lola Tung, and created\/executive produced by Jenny Han, the author of the novels the show is based on.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe second season of\u00a0Ballard\u00a0will be executive produced by Michael Connelly, Michael Alaimo, Kendall Sherwood,\u00a0Henrik Bastin,\u00a0Jasmine Russ, and\u00a0Trish Hofmann. Theresa Snider serves as co-executive producer for Hieronymus Pictures.<\/p>\n

\n\tArquette has worked with world-renowned directors, including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, John Sayles, Luc Besson, David Cronenberg, Hal Ashby, and Allison Anders, among others. She most recently worked on a Charli XCX-Led feature, The Moment, opposite Alexander Skarsgard. Her film credits also include Eleanor Coppola\u2019s Love is Love is Love, Holy Lads with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Pulp Fiction, Desperately Seeking Susan, Silverado, Baby It\u2019s You and After Hours. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn the small screen, she recently starred in Showtime\u2019s The L Word: Generation Q and Ryan Murphy\u2019s Netflix series Ratched alongside Sarah Paulson. She also had an arc of episodes on the critically acclaimed Showtime series Ray Donovan and HBO\u2019s Lena Dunham series Girls. Arquette is repped by Artium Talent and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction,\u00a0Desperately Seeking Susan) has joined the cast of Prime Video\u2018s Ballard for its upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[201934,88,7048,201256,92],"class_list":["post-423877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ballard","tag-entertainment","tag-prime-video","tag-rosanna-arquette","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}