American Horror Story: Coven fans who enjoyed renowned Broadway actress Patti LuPone's turn as the murderous mother next door may be drawn to Season 2 of Showtime's Penny Dreadful series, as LuPone has been announced to play a key guest-starring role connected to Eva Green's character. Several other guest stars have been revealed and two actors have been bumped up to series regulars.
According to Variety, LuPone will join a Season 2 guest star roster that includes Douglas Hodge, Sarah Greene and Jonny Beauchamp:
"Hodge will play an intense Scotland Yard investigator named Bartholomew Rusk who is on the hunt to discover who is responsible for the terrible murders that have been plaguing London. Greene will play Hecate, the powerful daughter of Helen McCrory’s Evelyn Poole, and Beauchamp has the vague and mysterious character description of a “young man with a singular past."
Showtime has also announced that Helen McCrory and Simon Russell Beale, both recurring guest stars from Season 1, have been promoted to series regulars for Season 2. The ten-episode second season (with all episodes penned by John Logan) of Penny Dreadful will begin shooting this month and will premiere in 2015.
“In Penny Dreadful, some of literature’s most famously terrifying characters — including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, all brilliantly reimagined in a whole new light — have become embroiled in Victorian London. The series stars Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), Eva Green (Casino Royale) Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights and License to Kill), Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Rory Kinnear (Skyfall), Harry Treadaway (The Lone Ranger), Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and Danny Sapani (The Bill)."
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