Sheria Irving & Sophina Brown Join FX’s ‘Kindred’ As Series Regulars
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Twenties actors Sheria Irving and Sophina Brown have boarded FX’s limited series Kindred as series regulars.
They join an ensemble led by newcomer Mallori Johnson, which also includes Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy and David Alexander Kaplan, as previously announced.The series adapted for the screen by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen) is based on Octavia E.
Butler’s acclaimed 1979 sci-fi novel of the same name. It follows Dana (Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own.
But, before she can get settled into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation with which she and her family are surprisingly and intimately linked.
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