BETTY GILPIN TO STAR IN PEACOCK'S HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DRAMA SERIES "MRS. DAVIS," FROM TARA HERNANDEZ AND DAMON LINDELOF
Emmy Award-Winning Director Owen Harris (Black Mirror: San Junipero, Brave New World) Is Set to Direct and Executive Produce; Series Is Produced by Warner Bros. Television
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· Peacock announced today that three-time Emmy Award-nominee Betty Gilpin (GLOW, The Hunt) will star in the leading role of the highly-anticipated drama series MRS. DAVIS, from Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof. The series comes from Warner Bros. Television, where both Hernandez and Lindelof are under overall deals.
· Though plot details are being kept under wraps, Peacock can confirm that the series is an exploration of faith versus technology - an epic battle of biblical and binary proportions.
· Gilpin will play a nun who goes to battle against an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence.
· Emmy Award-winning director Owen Harris (Black Mirror: San Junipero, Brave New World) will executive produce and direct multiple episodes, including the first episode.
· Gilpin previously collaborated with Lindelof on the subversive satirical thriller The Hunt.
· ABOUT BETTY GILPIN: Betty Gilpin is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee for her performance in the critically acclaimed Netflix television series GLOW. This April, she co-stars in STARZ's Gaslit opposite Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, and she will be featured in the Apple TV+ feminist anthology series Roar, executive produced by Nicole Kidman. Gilpin also stars in the upcoming Showtime drama series Three Women, based on the bestselling book by Lisa Taddeo.
· ABOUT TARA HERNANDEZ: Tara Hernandez most recently served as a writer and co-executive producer of TV's #1 comedy, Young Sheldon. She previously was a writer and co-executive producer on the long-running blockbuster hit comedy The Big Bang Theory.
· ABOUT DAMON LINDELOF: A prolific, award-winning creator known for ambitious and genre-bending storytelling, Lindelof's most recent television credits include the critically-acclaimed series Watchmen and The Leftovers, both of which he was co-creator and showrunner. Prior to that, Lindelof was co-creator and co-showrunner of the game-changing TV juggernaut LOST. His feature film credits include Star Trek, Prometheus, World War Z, and Tomorrowland, among others.
ABOUT THE SERIES
· Showrunner / Executive Producer / Co-Writer: Tara Hernandez (The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon)
· Executive Producer / Co-Writer: Damon Lindelof
· Executive Producer / Director: Owen Harris (Black Mirror: San Junipero, Brave New World) will direct multiple episodes of the series, including the first
· Produced by: Warner Bros. Television
· Format: Drama series
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