Sheria Irving & Sophina Brown Join Cast Of FX’s ‘Kindred’
Deadline is reporting Twenties actors Sheria Irving and Sophina Brown have boarded FX’s series Kindred as series regulars. They join an ensemble led by newcomer Mallori Johnson, which also includes Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith and David Alexander Kaplan.
The series adapted for the screen by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen) is based on Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed 1979 sci-fi novel. It follows Dana (Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own. But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked. An interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew ran through her blood.
FX Productions is producing the eight-episode series, with Jacobs-Jenkins serving as showrunner and exec producing alongside Courtney Lee-Mitchell, Darren Aronofsky for Protozoa Pictures, Ari Handel, Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Ernestine Walker and Merrilee Heifetz. Zola filmmaker Janicza Bravo is helming and exec producing the pilot.
Irving is a Yale School of Drama graduate who has appeared in BET+’s A Luv Tale: The Series, Amazon’s Them, Showtime’s Twenties and CBS’s Madam Secretary and The Good Wife.
Brown has previously appeared on series including S.W.A.T., Twenties, Legacies, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, 9-1-1, Zoo, Scream: The TV Series, Shark and Numb3rs, among others.