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Amazon's 'Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone' casts eight series regulars

Prime Video has added eight actors, including Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Marvel and Sean Astin, as series regulars in its dark-comedy adaptation of Benjamin Stevenson's novel, starring Penn Badgley.

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Mixed · 2Prime Video has set eight actors as series regulars in its upcoming dark comedy "Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone", based on Benjamin Stevenson's bestselling novel. Mixed · 2The cast members are Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Marvel, Daniella Garcia, Felix Solis, Sean Astin, Annaleigh Ashford, Chris Walley and Eliza Bennett; they join previously announced lead Penn Badgley. Centre · 1Deadline, citing sources, reports some roles: Clarkson as Audrey, a widowed mother turned pariah; Solis as Marcelo, Audrey's second husband; Garcia as Dr. Sofia Garcia, Marcelo's daughter with a secret; Marvel as Katherine, Audrey's sister; and Astin as Andy, Katherine's husband.

Mixed · 2The series is set in the mountains of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and follows Ern Cunningham (Badgley), a mystery-writing expert who reluctantly attends a family reunion to welcome home his brother Michael, whom Ern helped convict; when a frozen body appears and a snowstorm traps everyone inside, deaths begin to mount. Mixed · 2David Hemingson ("The Holdovers", "Kitchen Confidential") adapts the book and is showrunner and executive producer. Mixed · 2Alexandra Brodsky is an executive producer and will direct half the episodes, including the pilot and season finale; other executive producers are Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Jeanne Snow of Made Up Stories, Molly Allen, Badgley and Stevenson.

Mixed · 2Amazon MGM Studios, Fifth Season and Made Up Stories produce the series.

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