‘Black Cake’: Lashay Anderson, Faith Alabi & Ahmed Elhaj Join Hulu Drama Series
deadline.comLashay Anderson (Rebel Cheer Squad) and Faith Alabi (Industry) have been cast as series regulars opposite Adrienne Warren, Mia Isaac and Ashley Thomas in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
Additionally, Ahmed Elhaj (Grantchester) has been tapped for a recurring role in the project.Based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery.
Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades.In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder.
Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, with a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America.
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