Penny Dreadful - Casting Updates inc Billie Piper, Rory Kinnear and Josh Hartnett - Press Release

We have more exciting casting news! British actress Billie Piper has just signed on to star in our highly anticipated new drama series PENNY DREADFUL. Piper will play “Brona Croft,” an Irish immigrant to Victorian London trying to escape a dark and sordid past. She joins recently announced stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear and Harry Treadaway.

In addition to Piper, noted English actors Helen McCrory, Danny Sapani and Simon Russell Beale will also star in the drama series. McCrory will play “Madame Kali,” a spiritualist; Sapani will take on “Sembene,” an African warrior and longtime ally of Sir Malcolm (Dalton); and Russell Beale will star as “Ferdinand Lyle,” an eccentric Egyptologist.

PENNY DREADFUL begins filming this fall and will premiere on SHOWTIME in 2014.

Source: Showtime

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