Tom Pelphrey Boards ‘Mare of Easttown’ Creator’s Next HBO Drama
The HBO limited series from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby is adding to its cast.
Tom Pelphrey will join Mark Ruffalo in the drama, which will follow members of an FBI task force and the criminals they’re trying to catch. The untitled series stems from Ingelsby’s overall deal at HBO, which he signed in the wake of Mare of Easttown’s breakout success.
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The premium cable outlet has also released a somewhat more detailed description for the series, which reads: “Set in the working class suburbs outside of Philadelphia, an FBI agent heads a task force to put an end to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man.” The show is based on an original idea by Ingelsby.
Pelphrey (Mank, Love & Death) will play Robbie, a sanitation worker who has been knocked around in life but has always managed to get up again.
The limited series comes from independent studio Wiip, which produced Mare of Easttown. HBO announced a series order in June, though the deal and Ruffalo’s casting had closed before the onset of the writers strike in May.
Ingelsby is writing the project and will executive produce with directors Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Ruffalo, Paul Lee and Mark Roybal of Wiip and David Crockett. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches are co-EPs.
Pelphrey most recently starred in Max’s Love & Death and will play the lead role in Netflix’s limited series A Man in Full, based on the Tom Wolfe novel. His credits also include She Said, Ozark and Banshee. Pelphrey is repped by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Narrative and Sloane Offer.
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