NBC’s drama pilot Protection has cast another of its lead roles.
Hope Davis (The Phoenician Scheme, Your Honor) will star opposite Peter Krause in the show, about a family of law enforcement officers who are targeted by a killer. Like Krause, Davis starred in an 2010s NBC show, in her case the short-lived drama Allegiance.
Protection, from creator Josh Safran (Gossip Girl, Quantico), kicks off “when a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty,” the show’s logline reads. “A seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents become the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Thornhill family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice … even if it means betraying their sworn code.”
Davis will play Joan, a federally appointed U.S. marshal who commands respect at work.
Davis is a three-time Emmy nominee, most recently for her recurring role on HBO’s Succession. Her recent credits also include writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s feature The Mastermind, Apple TV’s miniseries Before, HBO’s Perry Mason and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. She’s currently appearing on stage in Wallace Shawn’s play What We Did Before Our Moth Days at the Greenwich House Theater. Davis is repped by UTA and Kipperman Management.
Safran is executive producing Protection with Jenna Bush Hager and Ben Spector. The show comes from Universal Television.
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