EXCLUSIVE: Starz‘s Power Book III: Raising Kanan has added Sibongile Mlambo (Lost in Space) and Paul Ben-Victor (The Wire) to its Season 4 forged in recurring roles.
Mlambo will play Imani Okoye, a wise, assured and business-savvy govt at a boutique file label. Ben-Victor will play Phil Russo, Jersey’s new crime boss accustomed to garnering respect, deference and different males’s concern. He suffers no fools and handles enterprise negotiations with stoic confidence.
Power Book III: Raising Kanan explores the early lifetime of everybody’s favourite villain Kanan Stark, initially performed by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson within the flagship sequence and exhibits his evolution from naive teenager to cutthroat villain. Season 3 noticed an epic showdown between Kanan (Mekai Curtis) and Raq (Patina Miller), leading to a few shock deaths and the return of a fan-favorite character. The sequence stars MeKai Curtis within the titular position of “Kanan,” Tony and Grammy Award winner Patina Miller as his mom, Raquel “Raq” Thomas” and London Brown as “Marvin Thomas.”
Season 4 is presently in manufacturing in New York. The sequence scored an early renewal for a fifth season following the Season 3 finale in February.
Sascha Penn will return as showrunner and govt producer for Season 4. The sequence is govt produced by the creator and showrunner of the unique Power, Courtney A. Kemp via her manufacturing firm End of Episode, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson via G-Unit Film and Television and Mark Canton via Atmosphere Entertainment MM. Chris Selak and Kevin Fox additionally function govt producers. Lionsgate Television produces the sequence for Starz.
Mlambo most lately recurred in Netflix’s Florida Man starring Edgar Ramirez, Lex Scott Davis and Otmara Marrero, which premiered final week. Additional credit embrace main roles in Netflix’s Lost in Space and Freeform’s Siren, and recurring roles within the CW’s Roswell, New Mexico, MacGyver for CBS, MTV’s Teen Wolf and Black Sails for Starz. She is repped by Gersh, 11:11 Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, LLP.
In addition to his casting in Raising Kanan, Ben-Victor can be set as a recurring visitor star in Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer for Season 3. He will play ‘Sly Funaro Senior,’ a street-savvy ex-lawyer presently imprisoned for tax evasion. Also up subsequent, he will probably be seen portraying real-life mobster Sam Giancana within the upcoming characteristic Killing Castro. Additional credit embrace Pam & Tommy, The Wire, The Irishman and Emancipation. He is repped by Independent Artist Group and Alan Siegel Entertainment.