Kirk Acevedo to Appear on Netflix’s New Series “Trinity”

Kirk Acevedo has lined up a new role.

The 53-year-old Puerto Rican actor will form part of the recurring cast of Netflix‘s series Trinity.

Kirk AcevedoAcevedo, who starred in Band of Brothers and Fringe, is among a roster of new cast additions that includes James Remar, Robert WisdomBruce Greenwood, Ben Cotton, Jason Ralph and Mark O’Brien.

They join the previously announced series regulars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Richard Madden, Marcia Gay Harden and JD Pardo.

From showrunner, writer and executive producer Jed MercurioTrinity follows a heroic female Naval Officer who becomes involved with the outwardly charismatic Secretary of Defense, only to discover he may be at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy.

Mbatha-Raw stars as Commander Katherine Decker, second-in-command on the USS Kansas, a nuclear submarine and one of the deadliest weapons on Earth. Madden portrays Secretary of Defense Webb Preston, who has a technology background that sets him apart from most politicians. Webb’s innovation and purpose are seen as a threat in more ways than one. Harden will play Margaret Vandenburg, the CEO and matriarch of her family’s business empire, guiding them to become a prominent family with political ties. Pardo will play Tom Reyes, a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy.

Acevedo will appear as Captain Jock Campbell.

In addition to Mercurio, executive producers of the eight-episode series include Jimmy Mulville for Hat Trick Mercurio and Wendy Mericle.

Michael Cuesta will direct and executive produce the first and second episodes of the 20th Television-produced series.

Mollà Joins the Cast of FX’s Paul Giamatti Comedy Pilot “Hoke”

Jordi Mollà’s next role is no Hoke

The 45-year-old Spanish actor, filmmaker, writer and artist has joined the cast of FX’s Paul Giamatti comedy pilot Hoke.

Jordi Mollà

Hoke is the story of mid-life crisis and murder that features the hard-boiled and possibly insane homicide detective, Hoke Moseley (Giamatti), in pre-chic Miami circa 1985.

Mollà, who appeared in Bad Boys II, will portray Armando Zuniga, a sociopathic Cuban who arrives on the shores of Miami in the rumpled, faded clothing of a peasant Cuban refugee and integrates into the city posing as a famous poet of the Cuban people.

But Mollà isn’t the only Spaniard joining the cast…

Game of Thrones star Oona Chaplin will plays Ellita Sanchez, a sharp young homicide detective recently promoted from dispatcher to Hoke’s new partner.

Other cast members include Body of Proof’s John Carroll Lynch Nashville’s Robert Wisdom and Guiding Light’s Tammy Blanchard.

Hoke is a darkly comedic take on Charles Willeford‘s series of novels Sideswipe, New Hope for the Dead and The Way We Die Now.

The project hails from writer/producer and Academy Award nominee Scott Frank (Out of Sight, Get Shorty).

Production is set to begin in Miami later this year.