After a long search, Matt Passmore has landed the lead on Fox's drama pilot "Masterwork," the season's last central pilot role that hadn't been filled.
Tapping the Aussie -- it's Passmore's first Hollywood gig -- is a fitting conclusion to a pilot season dominated by non-u.S. actors.
Foreign players have been gaining ground gradually during the past few years following the runaway success of Brit Hugh Laurie on Fox's "House." The trend exploded this year with almost 60 non-Americans cast in broadcast pilots and another dozen in cable pilots, the vast majority of them on the drama side.
Like Passmore, a well-known TV actor in Australia, several virtual unknowns in the U.S. but established in their native U.K. have been tapped to lead pilots this season: Charity Wakefield ("Legally Mad"), Christina Cole ("Maggie Hill"), Rupert Penry-Jones ("The Unknown") and Sophie Winkleman ("100 Questions"), along with the more familiar Brit...
Tapping the Aussie -- it's Passmore's first Hollywood gig -- is a fitting conclusion to a pilot season dominated by non-u.S. actors.
Foreign players have been gaining ground gradually during the past few years following the runaway success of Brit Hugh Laurie on Fox's "House." The trend exploded this year with almost 60 non-Americans cast in broadcast pilots and another dozen in cable pilots, the vast majority of them on the drama side.
Like Passmore, a well-known TV actor in Australia, several virtual unknowns in the U.S. but established in their native U.K. have been tapped to lead pilots this season: Charity Wakefield ("Legally Mad"), Christina Cole ("Maggie Hill"), Rupert Penry-Jones ("The Unknown") and Sophie Winkleman ("100 Questions"), along with the more familiar Brit...
- 3/26/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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