Keifer Sutherland is in demand.
The Emmy and Display screen Actors Guild Award winner will star as President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Showtime’s The First Girl.
Sutherland joins Oscar(R), Emmy and Tony winner Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Backside), who additionally govt produces, as former first girl Michelle Obama.
The forged additionally consists of Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) as Betty Ford and Emmy and Display screen Actors Guild winner Gillian Anderson (The Crown) as Eleanor Roosevelt.
Sure, it is pne of essentially the most spectacular casts on the small display.
Produced by Showtime and Lionsgate Tv, The First Girl is govt produced by Cathy Schulman (Crash), who additionally serves as showrunner, and Susanne Bier, who will direct all of season one.
Along with Davis, the sequence can also be govt produced by Julius Tennon, Andrew Wang, Jeff Gaspin (Rhythm + Stream) and Brad Kaplan (Mr. Church), and created by creator Aaron Cooley (4 Seats: A Thriller of the Supreme Courtroom), who will write a number of of the episodes and govt produce.
The First Girl is a revelatory reframing of American management, instructed via the lens of the ladies on the coronary heart of the White Home.
Within the East Wing of the White Home, lots of historical past’s most impactful and world-changing choices have been hidden from view, made by America’s charismatic, complicated and dynamic First Women.
This sequence will peel again the curtain on the non-public and political lives of three distinctive, enigmatic girls, tracing their journeys to Washington via interweaving storylines with an enlightening intimacy, with season one specializing in Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The sequence additionally stars Aaron Eckhart (Wander) as President Gerald Ford, and Dakota Fanning (The Alienist) as Susan Elizabeth Ford.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was the 32nd president of the US, from 1933 till his demise in 1945, and the one U.S. president to serve for greater than two phrases.
He married his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt in 1905, and collectively the couple turned the central figures in world occasions in the course of the first half of the 20th century, finally constructing the New Deal Coalition that outlined trendy liberalism within the U.S.
In 1921, Roosevelt contracted polio, and his legs turned completely paralyzed.
Unstoppable even after that, FDR is revered as one of many nation’s biggest presidents.
Sutherland is finest identified for portraying CTU agent Jack Bauer within the critically acclaimed 24.
He reprised the position for 24: Redemption, a made-for-television film that went on to earn 5 Emmy nominations, together with one for Sutherland for Greatest Actor in a Tv Film or Miniseries.
Subsequent, Sutherland will star and govt produce the upcoming untitled espionage drama by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for Paramount+ and produced by CBS Studios.
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