Cannavale, Giamatti & Ryan Join 'Win Win' Film

By: Mar. 12, 2010
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Bobby Cannavale, Paul Giamatti, and Amy Ryan will star in the upcoming "Win Win" film that will begin primary production March 15th in New York City, Variety is reporting. Giamatti plays plays a struggling attorney who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach. All aspects of his life are thrown in the air when he becomes the legal guardian of a client whose grandson shows up on his doorstep.

The film will also feature Jeffrey Tambor of Arrested Development and Melanie Lynskey of Two and a Half Men.

Ryan has appeared in a number of Broadway productions, including a nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her role in A Streetcar Named Desire is Amy Ryan. The production marked Amy's return to the Roundabout Theatre Company where she received a 2000 Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Uncle Vanya. Her other stage credits include The Women, Three Sisters, The Distance From Here, Saved, Crimes of the Heart, As Bees in Honey Drown, Imagining Brad, The Rimers of Eldritch, and the Kennedy Center production of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Paul Giamatti has appeared in a number of Broadway productions, including the lead role in the 1999 revival of The Iceman Cometh. Other Broadway credits include The Three Sisters, Racing Demon, and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

Cannavale has appared off-Broadway in Hurlyburly, F***ing A, and A Flea in Her Ear. He made his Broadway debut in the MTC's production of Mauritius.

 



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