Lucy Liu to Topline ‘Superfakes’ Drama at Peacock

Peacock’s crime drama Superfakes has found its lead.

Lucy Liu will star in the series, which comes from creator Alice Ju (Beef), Universal Studio Group’s UCP and A24; Josh and Benny Safdie are executive producers. Liu, who will also exec produce, is set to play a “small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer,” as described by the show’s logline, who becomes involved in a larger black market scheme in order to fund a better life for her family.

Peacock ordered the series in January. Ju has a history with the NBCUniversal-owned streamer, having worked as a writer and producer on the streamer’s Poker Face, and with A24, which produces Beef for Netflix.

Ju will be the showrunner of Superfakes and executive produce with Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Liu, Howard Klein and Olivia Gerke of 3 Arts, Ronald Bronstein and Eli Bush.

A two-time Emmy nominee, Liu is currently filming The Devil Wears Prada 2. She stars in and produced the upcoming feature Rosemead; other recent credits include Prime Video’s holiday movie Red One, Netflix’s miniseries A Man in Full and voice work on Netflix’s animated show Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld. She is repped by CAA, Framework and Schreck Rose.