Nellie Andreeva

Andrea Savage is set as the female lead in the network’s untitled John Leguizamo project, co-created and starring Leguizamo and based on his life as a husband, father and fish out of water on New York’s Upper West Side. Savage will play Leguizamo’s wife Juicy in the pilot, from ABC Studios and Mandeville TV.

Matt Oberg has been cast in Pulling, ABC‘s single-camera comedy pilot from Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and based on the British series. He will play Karl, the fiance of June Diane Raphael’s character, in the story of three dysfunctional women in their 30s living their lives the way they want, even if society tells them they should have it all figured out by this point. Mandy Moore also stars in the pilot, from ABC Studios.

Zahn McClarnon has been cast in the drama Big Thunder, the ABC Studios drama about a family given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to a frontier mining town run by a powerful but mysterious tycoon. They quickly realize that not everything in Big Thunder is as it seems. McClarnon will play Bear, an Apache who teaches Jack (Pierce Gagnon) to ride a horse. Ana de la Reguera also stars in the Jason Fuchs-written pilot.

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