Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery Joins Netflix Miniseries Godless
Netflix’s Godless just acquired a goddess of British period drama.
Downton Abbey‘s Michelle Dockery will play the female lead in the streaming video site’s upcoming miniseries, our sister site Variety reports.
The 1880s-set Western drama follows a dangerous outlaw Frank (played by The Newsroom‘s Jeff Daniels) who will stop at nothing to hunt down his partner-turned-mortal enemy Roy (Skins‘ Jack O’Connell). Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie) also stars.
Dockery will play Alice Fletcher, a ranch owner who hides Roy while Frank follows a lead to La Belle, N.M., a town where all of the residents are female.
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Steven Soderbergh (The Girlfriend Experience) produces the mini, which was written by Scott Frank (Out of Sight).
Good Behavior, the TNT thriller in which Dockery stars, will premiere this summer.
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