IFTA-nominated actress Andrea Riseborough has been cast in the pilot for HBO’s ‘The Money’, with Irish star Brendan Gleeson already attached as the lead.
Riseborough, who recently starred alongside Tom Cruise in Joseph Kosinki’s ‘Oblivion’, garnered critical praise for her turn as IRA informant Collette McVeigh in last year’s ‘Shadow Dancer’, filmed in Dublin in 2012..
The film, which earned an IFTA nomination for the actress, also featured performances from Aiden Gillen (‘Love/Hate’, ‘Game of Thrones’) and Gleeson’s son, Domhnall (‘About Time’, ‘Anna Karenina’).
‘The Money’ is the latest HBO series from ‘Deadwood’ and ‘Luck’ creator David Milch, and will see Brendan Gleeson return to US television following his Emmy-winning turn as Winston Churchill in 2009’s HBO TV movie ‘Into The Storm’.
Gleeson will star as James Castman, a media mogul who moves among the inner circles of America’s super elite, with Riseborough set to fill out a strong cast alongside ‘Homeland’s David Harewood and Nathan Lane (‘The Lion King’, ‘The Producers’), playing newspaper editor Ann Elkin, an Oxford-educated self-made woman.
Riseborough is next billed to appear in ‘Birdman’, a comedy from Alejandro González Iñárritu, while Gleeson is currently mid-production on Ron Howard’s ‘Heart of the Sea’, a re-telling of the tale that inspired Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’. Read more on that story here
