EXCLUSIVE: Skye P. Marshall has been tapped as a lead reverse Kathy Bates in CBS’ drama pilot Matlock, a brand new tackle the traditional authorized TV drama starring Andy Griffith, which comes from Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and NCIS: Los Angeles star Eric Christian Olsen.
In Matlock, written by Urman and to be directed by Kat Coiro, after attaining success in her youthful years, the good septuagenarian Madeline Matlock (Bates) rejoins the work pressure at a prestigious legislation agency the place she makes use of her unassuming demeanor and wily techniques to win circumstances and expose corruption from inside.
Marshall will play Olympia. A formidable lawyer with a thirst for justice, Olympia is a key rainmaker at New York’s most prestigious legislation agency. Juggling work and life, she stays laser-focused and never the simplest to impress, which is clear when she is tasked to supervise a 3rd junior affiliate.
Bates government produces alongside Sutton Avenue’s Urman and Joanna Klein, Coiro, in addition to Cloud 9’s Olsen and John Will.
Matlock reunites Marshall with CBS, CBS Studios, Snyder-Urman and Klein. Final season, she starred reverse Sophia Bush and Jason Isaacs within the CBS/CBS Studios medical drama Good Sam, created by Katie Wech and government produced by Snyder-Urman and Klein.
Marshall is coming off the Sundance premiere of Qasim Basir’s To Dwell & Die and Dwell, during which she performs the feminine lead reverse Amin Joseph and Omari Hardwick. She’s going to subsequent be seen within the darkly comedic Indie thriller Coup! reverse Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen, and the Indie Daft State reverse Christopher Backus. Marshall, whose current TV credit embrace a recurring function on the freshman CBS drama sequence East New York, is repped by Affirmative Leisure and Meyer & Downs.
