Blythe Danner to Join Richard Dreyfuss in ABC's Richard Madoff Miniseries

According to The Hollywood Reporter, film and stage veteran Blythe Danner will join Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss in ABC's new series MADOFF. Frank Whaley, Erin Cummings and Tom Lipinski have also signed on. Raymond De Felitta will direct.

Based on Brian Ross's reports for ABC News and his book THE MADOFF CHRONICLES, the miniseries "chronicles the rise and spectacular fall of the imprisoned swindler and the $65 billion Ponzi scheme he concocted," per Deadline.

Written by Ben Robbins, MADOFF is executive produced by Linda Berman and Joe Pichirallo and ABC News' Lincoln Square Productions.

ABC's project is not the only Madoff-centered one in development; HBO is working on a movie, written by Sam Baum, with Robert de Niro in the title role.

Danner will take on the role of "Ruth Madoff, the wife of the former stockbroker and fiancier convicted of fraud in the Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. She was the director of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities."

Dreyfuss will next appear on the big screen in Killing Winston Jones and Zipper. Among his recent film credits are Cas & Dylan, Paranoia and Very Good Girls. He has appeared on television in Weeds, PARENTHOOD and more. Dreyfuss won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1978 for The Goodbye Girl and was nominated for 1995's Mr. Holland's Opus.

The actor last appeared on Broadway in Sly Fox. Before that, he starred in Death and the Maiden, Total Abandon and But, Seriously... He has also taken the West End stage in The Producers.

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