Stephen Fry Joins Cast of 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY

Stephen Fry is headed to FOX.

According to Deadline, the popular UK actor has signed on for 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, debuting with a two-hour television premiere Monday, May 5on FOX, and makes its time period premiere The Following week on Monday, May 12.

Fry will take on the role of "Prime Minister Trevor Davies, a strong and charismatic leader whose friendship with President Heller (William Devane), and the Anglo-American alliance itself, come under tremendous pressure because of personal and political crises."

In 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, the stakes are higher than ever for BAUER, who is now an exile being tracked by CIA operations head Steve Harris (Benjamin Bratt, "Law & Order"), agent Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski, "Dexter"), computer tech JORDAN REED (Giles Matthey, "Jobs") and field operative ERIK RITTER (Gbenga Akinnagbe, "The Wire"). The series also stars Mary Lynn Rajskub ("Firewall"), along with newcomers Michael Wincott ("The Crow") and Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Judy Davis ("Life with Judy Garland").

24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY is a production of Teakwood Lane Productions in association with 20th Century FOX Television and Imagine TelevisioN. Howard Gordon, Evan Katz, Manny Coto, David Fury, Robert Cochran, Brian Grazer, Jon Cassar and Kiefer Sutherland will executive-produce. The original series, which had its last American broadcast on May 24, 2010, was created by Joel Surnow and Cochran.

Fry is celebrated for his diverse career as playwright, screenwriter, poet, journalist and TV personality, is making his Broadway acting debut with Twelfth Night. His theatre credits include Forty Years On (Chichester Festival Theatre/West End) and The Common Pursuit. Film includes Sherlock Holmes 2, St. Trinian's, Eichmann, Tales of the Riverbank, Stormbreaker, V for Vendetta, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Acand Bull Story, A Bear Named Winnie, Tooth, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Le Divorce, Gosford Park, The Discovery of Heaven, Thunderpants, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith, A Civil Action, The Tichborne Claimant, Spice World, Wilde (Golden Globe nomination), The Wind in the Willows, Cold Comfort Farm, I.Q., Peter's Friends, A Fish Called Wanda, A Handful of Dust and The Good Father. Television credits include "Doors Open," "No Strings Attached," "The Bleak Little Shop of Stuff," "The Borrowers," "Holy Flying Circus," "Q.1." (11 series, Royal Television Society nomination for Best Entertainment 2008, Royal Television Society nomination for Best Entertainment Performance 2008, BAFTA nomination for Best Entertainment Performance 2004-2007), "Kingdom," "Never Mind the Buzzcocks," "Bones," "Extras," "Who Do You Think You Are?" "Tom Brown's Schooldays," "Absolute Power," "Fortysomething," "Paddington Goes to Peru," "Surrealissimo," "Gormenghast," "Longitude," "Watership Down," "Stalag Luft," "Common Pursuit," "Jeeves and Wooster," "Blackadder Goes Forth," "Old Flames," "A Bit of Fry and Laurie," "Saturday Live," "Happy Families," "Blackadder," "The Young Ones" and "Alfresco"

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