Lizzy Caplan To Star In Apple Drama Series Are You Sleeping

Lizzy Caplan To Star In Apple Drama Series Are You Sleeping

AP/REX/Shutterstock Former Masters of Sex star Lizzy Caplan has been tapped for a lead..

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Former Masters of Sex star Lizzy Caplan has been tapped for a lead role opposite star Octavia Spencer in Are You Sleeping, Apples upcoming 10-episode thriller drama series from Reese Witherspoons Hello Sunshine and the scripted drama venture of Peter Chernins Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content.

Are You Sleeping, created and written by Nichelle Tramble Spellman based on the true-crime novel by Kathleen Barber, provides a unique glimpse into Americas obsession with true-crime podcasts and challenges its viewers to consider the consequences when the pursuit of justice is placed on a public stage.

Caplan will play twin sisters Josie and Lanie, whose lives have taken very different paths. I hear she has a one-year deal. Spencer plays the investigative reporter behind a hit true-crime podcast that reopens the case of Josie and Lanies fathers murder.

Are You Sleeping is executive produced by Spencer via her Orit Entertainment, Tramble, who serves as showrunner, as well as Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, and Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kristen Campo for Chernin Entertainment. Sarah Koenig, host, creator and producer of the true-crime podcast phenomenon Serial, will consult on the series.

Caplan starred as human sexuality research pioneer Virginia Johnson in praised drama Master Of Sex, which ran on Showtime for four seasons. The role earned her a lead actress in a drama series Emmy Award nomination. She is repped by WME, manager Julie Darmody and attorney Karl Austen.

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