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Talent holding deals are pretty rare these days, especially with young up-and-comers. CBS and CBS TV Studios have signed such as deal with 24-year-old British actress Lucy Griffiths. Under the pact, the network will cast her in a drama or comedy project. It marks Griffiths’ first U.S. gig. In the U.K., she is best known for doing the first 2 seasons of the BBC drama Robin Hood, on which she played Maid Marian. The actress, who recently starred on the West End in the revival of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, is with U.S.’ Paul Kohner and Principal and U.K.’s Hamilton/Hodell. CBS has been the most active on the talent holding deal front this season, inking pacts with Rob Riggle, Leah Remini and Kristoffer Polaha.
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Very beautiful and talented woman. I enjoyed her in Robin Hood and Collision
This is a good catch for CBS. Griffiths is tremendously talented. It would be a shame to waste her on sitcom.
Now only if they can get Richard Armitage in his own tv series in America!
Armitage is too busy with “The Hobbit” now. But there’s always reruns of MI5 on PBS.
I for one don’t want Armitage to come to the US…he’s too incredible an actor to be appreciated over here (look at what happened to Damien Lewis who was great in “Life”). I wouldn’t want to see him “Hollywood-ized.”
Such an odd story. Don’t holding deals happen all the time? Are you going to start reporting when actors get call backs, too?
uh oh. are we going to get into another sub-Superman diatribe where Brits are accused of stealing casting moves from entitled American hands? because we know the microcosm of Hollywood casting and the US employment market are synonymous.
I enjoyed Lucy Griffiths as Lady Marian on the BBC Robin Hood series. I thought her chemistry with Richard Armitage as Sir Guy of Gisborne was magic. I look forward to seeing her in a US project, soon I hope.
Would match my love of country, which is the US, to any other American’s; however, Hollywood casting agents have no one but themselves to blame when more talented and better-looking performers from elsewhere win contracts here. How many times do you think you can foist numbingly borrrrring, visually blah actors/actresses like Brad Pitt/Matt Damian and Meryl Streep/Angelina Jolie on us without our heads and hearts dashing away to more interesting shores.
“How many times do you think you can foist numbingly borrrrring, visually blah actors/actresses like Brad Pitt/Matt Damian and Meryl Streep/Angelina Jolie on us without our heads and hearts dashing away to more interesting shores”
I can only laugh at such stupidity.
america continues to hire cheap foreign labor.
(but i do admit she’s good looking and assume there’s talent in her.)
don’t hate on Lucy Griffiths. she’s fantastic. i saw her in robin hood & collision and think she’s brilliant. can’t wait to see her do something in the U.S.
I can see why the Brit actors/actresses are scoring more roles in US. They are much better trained and know how to act with more depth. When they take on a role, they blend into the character. They become that character. I cannot stand watching U.S. actors that don’t seem to know how to not “stick out” of their roles, thereby ruining the story. For example, take Captain America: “Oh, look! There’s Kevin Bacon playing with a weird German accent, what is he doing in this movie!” On the other hand, I never even realized it was Richard Armitage playing that spy in the same movie. So much more believable, even in a comic book story.