Leslie Uggams, LisaGay Hamilton, Jessica Frances Dukes Among 8 New Additions For HBO’s The Gilded Age Season 3
Variety reports that Leslie Uggams, LisaGay Hamilton, and Jessica Frances Dukes among eight actors joining “The Gilded Age” Season 3. Also coming on the series are Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Paul Alexander Nolan, Hattie Morahan, and Andrea Martin.
The new additions will appear alongside the returning cast that includes Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, and Blake Ritson.
“The Gilded Age” takes place in 1880s New York City and follows the lives of both old and new money members of high society (and their servants) as they navigate the economic and social changes of their time. Railroads, fancy lady glove parties, opera wars, this show has it all!
Uggams will play Mrs. Ernestine Brown, Elizabeth Kirkland’s friend and a member of the Black elite community in Newport.
Hamilton is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the famed Black suffragist who inspires Peggy (Denée Benton) to become involved in her cause, in spite of the dissenting opinions of those around her.
Dukes is Athena Trumbo, Dorothy (Audra McDonald)’s beloved first cousin and a part of an elite enclave of Black residents of Newport, Rhode Island, who is pleased to host Peggy (Benton) and is supportive of her writing career.
Julian Fellowes created the series and serves as writer and executive producer. Sonja Warfield is also a writer and executive producer, with Gareth Neame, Bob Greenblatt, and David Crockett also executive producing. Michael Engler and Salli Richardson-Whitfield are directors and executive producers, while Erica Dunbar is the historical consultant and co-executive producer.