Tim Guinee is set to star in The Staircase, HBO Max’s limited series drama adaptation dependent on the true-crime docuseries. He joins recently reported Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Rosemarie DeWitt, Juliette Binoche, Parker Posey, Odessa Young, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Dane DeHaan, Olivia DeJonge, Sophie Turner and Michael Stuhlbarg..
The eight-episode series from Christine chief Antonio Campos and American Crime Story essayist Maggie Cohn investigates the life of Michael Peterson (Firth), his rambling North Carolina family and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen (Collette).
Guinee will play Bill Peterson, Michael Peterson’s (Firth) younger brother and a lawyer via preparing.
The series depends on the docuseries and different books and reports working on this case of Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 for killing Kathleen two years sooner. The charge was reduced to manslaughter in 2017, and Peterson along these lines was released from jail. He had claimed his wife died after falling down the stairs at their home after consuming alcohol and Valium, however a dissection closed she passed on from different wounds, including blows to the back of her head with an blunt object.
The Staircase is written and executive produced by Campos and Cohn, who likewise fill in as showrunners. The series is a co-creation between HBO Max and Annapurna TV.
Guinee’s extensive credits include series Homeland and Hell For Wheels and Ramin Bahrain’s film 99 Homes. He can presently be seen driving the free film Ash and showing up in Harriet with Cynthia Erivo. Guinee will next show up in Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix restricted series Inventing Anna, inverse Julia Garner.
He is repped by Josiah Akinyele and Thomas Cushing at Innovative Artists and managed by Atil Singh at Principal Entertainment LA and Sue Leibman at Barking Dog Entertainment.