Kate Winslet to Star in ‘The Spot’ Series for Hulu
Kate Winslet is set to star in The Spot, a drama from screenwriter Ed Solomon and A24 ordered straight to series by Hulu.
The show, also from 20th Television, centers on a successful surgeon and her schoolteacher husband starting to suspect she may be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death. Their quest for truth only spirals into a web of mounting suspicion and dark secrets, testing their resolve and their relationship as they confront the possibility of hidden guilt and betrayal.
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Solomon created, wrote and will showrun The Spot, while also executive producing along with Winslet and her Juggle Productions banner and A24. Winslet, best known as a movie actor since breaking out in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in 1994, has earned two Emmys for Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown.
She also starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic and has other movie credits like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Revolutionary Road, Little Children, Steve Jobs and an Oscar-winning performance in The Reader.
Solomon’s credits include Men in Black, the Now You See Me movie franchise and the Mosaic TV series. He also wrote the script for the film No Sudden Move for director Soderbergh and producer Casey Silver, which debuted at Tribeca and starred Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Ray Liotta, Brendan Fraser, Kieran Kulkin and Matt Damon.
Solomon’s most recent release, Full Circle, is a six-hour limited series also directed by Soderbergh and starring Claire Danes, Zazie Beetz, Dennis Quaid and Timothy Olyphant.
Winslet is represented by CAA and United Agents in the U.K. Solomon is repped by CAA.
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