Nicole Kidman Joins Taylor Sheridan Espionage Series Special Ops: Lioness On Paramount+
Kidman will star alongside Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Oliveira.
Posted on Jan 5, 2023 | 09:45am
Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman has signed on to star in Taylor Sheridan's latest series, Special Ops: Lioness, on Paramount+.
Special Ops: Lioness is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.
Zoe Saldaña plays Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing, and leading her female undercover operatives.
Kidman plays Kaitlyn Meade, the CIA's Senior Supervisor who has had a long career of playing the politics game. She must juggle the trappings of being a woman in the high-ranking intelligence community, a wife that longs for the attention she herself can't even give, and a mentor to someone veering suspiciously close to the same rocky road she's found herself on.
READ: Taylor Sheridan’s CIA Series Special Ops: Lioness Adds More To Cast
Morgan Freeman has also signed on to the series. He will play Edwin Mullins, the United States Secretary of State.
Michael Kelly will make a guest appearance in Lioness. He is set to play Byron Westfield, a CIA Deputy Director.
Special Ops: Lioness will also star Jill Wagner as Bobby, a CIA Special Activities Division operative; Dave Annable as Neil, Joe's husband and the father of their two daughters; LaMonica Garrett and James Jordan as Tucker and Two Cups, respectively, both experienced CIA Special Activities Division operatives on Joe's team; Austin Hébert as Randy, a tech specialist in charge of surveillance; Hannah Love Lanier as Kate, Joe and Neil's daughter; Stephanie Nur as Aaliyah, the daughter of a billionaire businessman with ties to terrorism; Thad Luckinbill as Kyle, an old friend of Joe's who oversees a trafficking contact; and Jonah Wharton as Tex, another member of Joe's team.
The series is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Jill Wagner, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Malone, and John Hillcoat.
Special Ops: Lioness is the latest addition to Sheridan’s growing slate on Paramount+ which includes 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King and 1923, as well as the upcoming series Bass Reeves and Land Man.
Stay tuned for more about Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+.
Special Ops: Lioness is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA's Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.
Zoe Saldaña plays Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing, and leading her female undercover operatives.
Kidman plays Kaitlyn Meade, the CIA's Senior Supervisor who has had a long career of playing the politics game. She must juggle the trappings of being a woman in the high-ranking intelligence community, a wife that longs for the attention she herself can't even give, and a mentor to someone veering suspiciously close to the same rocky road she's found herself on.
READ: Taylor Sheridan’s CIA Series Special Ops: Lioness Adds More To Cast
Morgan Freeman has also signed on to the series. He will play Edwin Mullins, the United States Secretary of State.
Michael Kelly will make a guest appearance in Lioness. He is set to play Byron Westfield, a CIA Deputy Director.
Special Ops: Lioness will also star Jill Wagner as Bobby, a CIA Special Activities Division operative; Dave Annable as Neil, Joe's husband and the father of their two daughters; LaMonica Garrett and James Jordan as Tucker and Two Cups, respectively, both experienced CIA Special Activities Division operatives on Joe's team; Austin Hébert as Randy, a tech specialist in charge of surveillance; Hannah Love Lanier as Kate, Joe and Neil's daughter; Stephanie Nur as Aaliyah, the daughter of a billionaire businessman with ties to terrorism; Thad Luckinbill as Kyle, an old friend of Joe's who oversees a trafficking contact; and Jonah Wharton as Tex, another member of Joe's team.
The series is executive produced by Taylor Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Jill Wagner, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Malone, and John Hillcoat.
Special Ops: Lioness is the latest addition to Sheridan’s growing slate on Paramount+ which includes 1883, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King and 1923, as well as the upcoming series Bass Reeves and Land Man.
Stay tuned for more about Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+.