Prime Video‘s comedy Escorted, starring and created by Brett Goldstein, is adding Lesley Manville to its cast.
The newly crowned Tony Award winner will play the mother of Goldstein’s character in the series. Her casting marks a return to Prime Video for Manville, who also stars in the Amazon-owned streamer’s Citadel.
Escorted, which Prime Video ordered to series late last year, stars Goldstein (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) as Denny, a divorced dad in Manhattan who accidentally becomes a male escort. Prime Video describes the show as a “romantic comedy about sexual dynamics, keeping secrets, and whether real intimacy can ever be bought.”
Manville (The Crown, Phantom Thread) will play Terri, Denny’s mother and a “charisma bomb” cabaret singer. Her character is a force of nature with a voice to match.
Manville won a Tony Award on Sunday for best lead actress in a play for Oedipus. She was nominated for an Oscar in 2018 for her role in Phantom Thread; her recent credits also include FX’s Grotesquerie, the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris and the upcoming Marble Hall Murders, which is set to premiere on PBS’ Masterpiece in September. Manville is repped by Artists Rights Group, Avalon Television and Public Eye Communications.
Warner Bros. Television, where Goldstein has an overall deal, is producing Escorted. Goldstein is writing the series and serves as co-showrunner with Brian Gallivan (Shrinking, Happy Endings).
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