Victor Garber and Natasha Richardson to Star in TV Pilots
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tony Award-nominee Victor Garber and Tony Award-winner Natasha Richardson have lined up TV pilots.
Garber, whose other television work includes "Alias," will join fellow theatre star Laura Benanti and Jonny Lee Miller for the ABC pilot "Eli Stone," which is a "high-concept legal drama about Eli Stone (Miller), a brilliant attorney at the top law firm in San Francisco who finds out he might be a prophet."
Garber will play the firm's senior partner - who also happens to be the father of Eli's fiancee.
Richardson will be featured in NBC's pilot of the comedic soap opera "The Mastersons of Manhattan." She will play one of two sisters belonging to a New York society family.
Garber, who will next appear as Ben Stone in the Encores! staged concert of Follies, was nominated for Tony awards for his work in Damn Yankees, Lend Me A Tenor, Deathtrap and the 1985 revival of Little Me. Other credits include the original Broadway casts of Arcadia, Noises Off and Sweeney Todd. Film work includes Titanic, The First Wives Club, Sleepless in Seattle and Legally Blonde. He was nominated for Emmy Awards for his work on the ABC miniseries "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," and "Alias."
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