EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Edwards (ER, Top Gun) and J. Smith-Cameron (Succession, Hacks) join Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti in the FX drama pilot Seven Sisters.
The project, from FX Productions, follows a large, tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister (Olsen) starts communicating with a voice no one else can hear, forcing them to confront long-buried secrets.
We hear that Edwards will portray family patriarch Paul Bosco and Smith-Cameron will portray his wife, Francesca, in series regular roles should the pilot get picked up to series. They join Milioti, who we revealed yesterday will portray Olsen’s character’s sister.
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Seven Sisters is executive produced by Will Arbery, who wrote the pilot; Sean Durkin, who will direct it; and Garrett Basch. If the pilot goes forward, it would mark Basch’s fifth series for FX, where his company Dive has a long-standing first-look deal, following Devs, Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows and Sterlin Harjo’s upcoming Tulsa noir drama starring Ethan Hawke.
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Edwards is best known for playing Dr. Mark Greene on the hit medical series ER. For his portrayal, he received four Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and a Golden Globe Award in 1998. Additionally, he directed several episodes of the medical drama. He is also recognized for portraying Goose in the blockbuster feature, Top Gun.
Additional feature film credits include Consumed, Experimenter, Big Sur, Motherhood with Uma Thurman, Flipped directed by Rob Reiner, and Zodiac directed by David Fincher. Edwards made his feature directing debut with My Dead Boyfriend in 2016.
He recently starred in the Apple series WeCrashed and the Netflix mini-series Inventing Anna. TV credits include Law and Order True Crimes: the Menendez Murders, Zero Hour, Girls, Blue Bloods, and Billions. Edwards was an executive producer of the HBO biopic Temple Grandin, which won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes.
He is represented by Gersh and Lovett Management.
Smith-Cameron is best known for starring as a series regular on the hit HBO series Succession. For her portrayal of Gerri Kellman, Waystar Royco’s General Counsel, she received back-to-back nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022 and 2023 as well as noms from the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards. Her TV credits also include the hit Max comedy series Hacks, Peacock’s animated comedy series In the Know, Sundance TV’s Rectify, and HBO’s True Blood and Divorce.
On the big screen, Smith-Cameron played Joan in her husband Kenneth Lonergan’s 2011 film Margaret. She also starred in Blumhouse and Focus Feature’s thriller Vengeance, the directorial debut of B.J. Novak, and The Year Between, an independent drama feature from Alex Heller. Additional film credits include the Sundance-winning film Nancy opposite Andrea Riseborough, Steve Buscemi, and John Leguizamo, for which she received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She is repped by Principal Entertainment LA, Gersh and Schreck Rose Dapello.