Tony Winner Katie Finneran Joins Cast of Netflix's New Drama from DAMAGES Creators

According to Deadline, Tony winner Katie Finneran has boarded Netflix's upcoming untitled drama from the creators of DAMAGES. She'll join fellow Broadway vet Norbert Leo Butz in the project as his wife.

The series "centers on a close-knit family of four adult siblings (Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz) whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother (Mendelsohn) returns home. Murciano...plays, Meg's (Cardellini) boyfriend Marco, a member of the county sheriff's department."

KATIE FINNERAN co-starred in "The Michael J. Fox Show" on NBC and was called this season's "funniest breakout star" from The Daily Beast. She most recently starred on Broadway as Miss Hannigan in the Tony nominated revival of Annie. In 2010, Finneran won a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in the first Broadway revival of the musical, Promises, Promises. She was also awarded the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance in the Broadway revival of Noises Off.

Her extensive list of Broadway credits include Mauritius, Cabaret, The Iceman Cometh, Neil Simon's Proposals, The Heiress, In the Summerhouse, My Favorite Year, Two Shakespearean Actors, and On Borrowed Time. Off-Broadway, she appeared in the original cast of the play Love, Loss and What I Wore, as well as the Encores! production of Li'l Abner. She made her New York Philharmonic debut in the 2012 concert of Stephen Sondheim's Company, filmed for cinemas and released on DVD. Finneran made her London debut in the West End production of Fuddy Meers.

On television, Finneran is best known for roles on the series "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," "Frasier," "Wonderfalls," and "The Inside." Her film credits include the remake of Night of the Living Dead, You've Got Mail, Bewitched, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, and the recent Peter Farrelly anthology, The Catch.

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