‘The Santa Clauses’ Adds Laura San Giacomo As Christmas Witch
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Laura San Giacomo has been hired to inject some more Christmas magic to The Santa Clauses. The actress, last seen in Barry and NCIS, will play La Befana — a Christmas Witch from Italian folklore who delivered treats to good children on the morning of the epiphany.
She now resides in the Wobbly Woods of the North Pole.San Giacomo reunites with Jack Burditt, who is the executive producer and showrunner of the Disney+ comedy that stars Tim Allen.
San Giacomo worked with Burditt on Just Shoot Me. In the Disney+ series, Scott Calvin (Allen) is on the brink of his 65th birthday and realizing that he can’t be Santa forever.
He’s suddenly starting to lose his Santa magic, and more importantly, he’s got a family who could benefit from a life in the normal world, especially his two kids who have grown up at the North Pole.
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