EXCLUSIVE: In his return to CBS, former CSI: Vegas star Matt Lauria has been tapped as what’s believed to be the male lead reverse Morena Baccarin on the community’s upcoming drama collection Sheriff Country, a by-product from hit Fire Country.
Sheriff Country, which is able to premiere within the fall, stars Baccarin as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone (Fire Country‘s Diane Farr), who investigates legal exercise as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater whereas contending along with her ex-con father (W. Earl Brown) and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.
Lauria will play Boone, Sheriff Mickey Fox’s good, powerful and succesful deputy and longtime accomplice. Originally from Oakland, he’s used to a unique sort of policing. Their contrasting regulation enforcement kinds makes their partnership each complicated and sometimes tense.
In addition to Baccarin and Brown, whose characters have been launched on Fire Country, Lauria joins fellow Sheriff Country new collection regulars Christopher Gorham and Michele Weaver who play Mickey’s ex-husband and a Sheriff deputy, respectively.
The Sheriff Country planted spinoff episode was written by Tony Phelan and Joan Rater with story by Phelan, Rater and Max Thieriot, the trio behind Fire Country. Executive producing the collection are Matt Lopez, who serves as showrunner, Thieriot, Phelan, Rater, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for JBTV. CBS Studios is the studio behind the Fire Country franchise.
Lauria will subsequent be seen recurring in JJ Abrams’ interval thriller drama collection Duster for Max as Izzy’s (Camille Guaty) oncologist boyfriend. He not too long ago wrapped indie movie Drowning and recurred on the second season of Prime Video’s sci-fi Western Outer Range. His collection credit additionally embody main roles on DirecTV’s Kingdom, Apple TV+’s Dickinson, CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story, Channel 4’s Traitors, Sky Atlantic’s Little Birds, NBC’s Parenthood and his breakout activate Friday Night Lights. In options, he was most not too long ago seen in Paramount’s 80 for Brady. Lauria is repped by Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, & Kole.