Nicole Kidman has reportedly been set as a lead alongside Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Oliveira on Taylor Sheridan’s CIA drama series Lioness. According to Variety, Lioness is based on a real-life CIA program. Kidman will join an ensemble cast which includes Zoe Saldaña, Jill Wagner, Dave Annable, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Hannah Love Lanier, Stephanie Nur, and Jonah Wharton.
Kidman will portray Kaitlyn Meade who is described as “the CIA’s Senior Supervisor who has had a long career of playing the politics game. She must juggle the trappings of being a woman in the high-ranking intelligence community, a wife that longs for the attention she herself can’t even give and a mentor to someone veering suspiciously close to the same rocky road she’s found herself on.”
As per the official logline, the series follows “Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.”
Lioness is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios. The executive producers include Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Saldaña, Nicole Kidman via her Blossom Films, Jill Wagner, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Malone and John Hillcoat.
Meanwhile, Kidman was most recently seen in Robert Eggers’ film The Northman. The Oscar-winning actress will next star in an untitled rom-com starring Joey King and Zac Efron and upcoming drama series Expats.
