“American Love Story” at FX has discovered its first forged member.
Variety has discovered from sources that Sarah Pidgeon has been forged in one of many lead roles for the upcoming anthology sequence, which was initially introduced in 2021. As beforehand reported, the primary season of the sequence will deal with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Pidgeon will star as Bessette.
Reps for twentieth Television and FX declined to remark.
Bessette was raised in New York and Connecticut. After a short modeling profession, she went on to rise via the ranks at Calvin Klein, finally working as director of publicity and coping with the model’s superstar shoppers in New York. She started courting Kennedy in 1994 and the 2 have been married in 1996. They have been the topic of intense media scrutiny throughout their time collectively, with their lives continuously featured within the tabloids.
Pidgeon is probably greatest recognized for her starring function within the Amazon Prime Video sequence “The Wilds,” which aired for 2 seasons between 2020 and 2022. Most lately in TV, she starred within the Hulu restricted sequence “Tiny Beautiful Things” alongside Kathryn Hahn. In movie, she has starred in each “The Friend” and “Lazarus” and can subsequent be seen within the fourth movie within the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” franchise.
She is repped by Gersh, Anonymous Content, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
“American Love Story” is the following installment within the “American Story” franchise at FX. In addition to the long-running anthology sequence “American Horror Story” and its companion “American Horror Stories,” the premium cabler has up to now aired three seasons of “American Crime Story” in addition to one season of “American Sports Story.” The latter present aired its first season in 2024, which targeted on Aaron Hernandez.
Ryan Murphy serves as an government producer on “American Love Story” together with Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson of Color Force, DV Divencentis, and Connor Hines. twentieth Television, the place Murphy is beneath an general deal, is the studio.