Just yesterday we brought you casting news for the new Fox supernatural drama Sleepy Hollow. Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news comes more casting updates for the television show. Nicole Beharie (The Express) has been cast as the lead actress in the contemporary pilot, and joins recently announced cast members Orlando Jones and Katia Winter.
Deadline is reporting, In her biggest break to date, up-and-coming actress Nicole Beharie has scored the female lead in Sleepy Hollow, Fox’s drama pilot written by Alex Kurtzman, Bob Orci and Phillip Iscove and directed by Len Wiseman. A modern–day supernatural thriller based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, the project, from 20th TV and K/O, follows Ichabod Crane as he partners with Sleepy Hollow’s Detective Abbie Archer (Beharie) to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil. Abbie is about to leave for the FBI Academy when she witnesses the brutal murder of someone close to her, and her story is corroborated by only one person — a man called Ichabod Crane.
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Other stories on Sleepy Hollow in Horror Society:
https://horrorsocietycom.stage.site/2013/02/20/tv-sleepy-hollow-series-casts-orlando-jones/
