Casting News: Felicity Huffman Joins Doc, Jen Garner Drama Adds Chloë Sevigny And More
The prognosis for Dr. Richard Miller's career is not looking great.
Felicity Huffman will join the Season 2 cast of Doc, Fox announced Tuesday. The Emmy winner will play Dr. Joan Ridley, Amy's medical school professor and an early mentor in her career. Ridley also is the new chief of internal medicine at Westside Hospital.
Doc showrunner Barbie Kilgman recently told TVLine that Richard's anti-Amy antics, which came to light in the Season 1 finale, "could very much prevent him from working at West Side Hospital." That said, "I don't think this is the last we've seen of him, no."
Huffman's long TV career includes roles on Desperate Housewives (for which she won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy), American Crime, Criminal Minds: Evolution, When They See Us and Sports Night. She spent a significant time in the news in 2019 for her involvement in a scheme in which she paid $15,000 to have her daughter's SAT scores falsified to get her into college. Huffman ultimately served an 11-day prison sentence, paid a $30,000 fine and participated in community service as punishment for her crimes.
In other recent casting news...
* Chloë Sevigny (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story) and Gemma Chan (Humans) have joined Jennifer Garner and Regina Hall as series regulars in Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend. Based on the Elin Hilderbrand novel, the show stars Garner as a famous food influencer who hosts a weekend getaway for her friends at her posh Nantucket home; Sevigny and Chan will respectively play the roles of Tatum McKenzie and Gigi Ling.
* Brynn Whitfield is exiting The Real Housewives of New York City after two seasons. "After a lot of thought, I've made the decision to walk away from reality TV. For now," she shared Monday on Instagram. "All I want to do now is pour every ounce of energy into building Hoppy," the dating app she co-founded.
* Iris Apatow (Love) will recur in Hulu's Tell Me Lies Season 3, our sister site Deadline reports. She'll play Amanda, a "bubbly but fragile college freshman keeping a big secret."
* Bachelor in Paradise has revealed the first wave of cast members for Season 10 (debuting Monday, July 7 at 8/7c on ABC), including Bachelor alums Zoe and Alexe and Bachelorette alums Dale and Jonathon. Meet more of the cast in this video: