Judd Hirsch to Join New Season of DAMAGES

According to EW.com, stage veteran Judd Hirsch is set to join the new season of DirecTV's Damages. He'll star as an alcoholic ex-mentor of Hewes.

He has starred on Broadway in Conversations with My Father, a Herb Gardner play for which Hirsch won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play. Other noteworthy stage performances include The Hot l Baltimore, Talley's Folly, and his starring role in I'm Not Rappaport, in which Hirsch also won a Tony Award in 1986.

Damages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The series revolves around the brilliant, yet ruthless lawyer, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), her protégée, Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), and the law firm, Hewes & Associates (located in New York City). The first season centers on Hewes attempting to win a class-action lawsuit against the corrupt former CEO of a corporation (Ted Danson) on behalf of his former workers.

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