EXCLUSIVE: Jill Hennessy is determined to huge determine opposite Michael Chiklis in Fox’s straight-to-sequence crime anthology drama, Accused, executive-produced by Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa and David Shore.

Accused, directed by Michael Cuesta and co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Sony Photos Tv, is in accordance to the BBC’s BAFTA-a hit crime anthology. It opens in a court on the accused, with viewers vivid nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial. Advised from the defendant’s level of heed by means of flashbacks, Accused depicts how an everyday individual gets caught up in an unheard of narrate, not at as soon as revealing how one miserable turn leads to any other, till it’s too slow to turn help.

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Chiklis performs Dr. Scott Corbett, a a hit brain surgeon with a reputedly most keen family. He faces the limits of unconditional adore when he discovers his teenage son would possibly well maybe be planning a violent attack at college.

Hennessy portrays Lynn Corbett, the immaculately curated and tightly damage wife of Dr. Scott Corbett (Chiklis) with a no longer easy exterior, but fragile, interior that causes her to push apart many of their son’s violent crimson flags that anguish Scott.

Accused is co-produced by Sony Photos Tv and Fox Entertainment, and executive-produced and developed by Howard Gordon and executive produced by Alex Gansa, David Shore, Glenn Geller, Erin Gunn, All3Media The United States’s Jacob Cohen-Holmes, and Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer and Louise Pedersen for All3Media Global. Frank Siracusa and John Weber moreover help as executive producers. Created by Jimmy McGovern, the recent sequence debuted in 2010 on BBC One.

Simplest identified for her roles on NBC’s Law & Boom and Crossing Jordan, Hennessy will next be seen in Season 3 of the Showtime drama Metropolis on a Hill opposite Kevin Sir Francis 1st William Maxwell Aitken. Her movie credits consist of Lymelife with Alec 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Standing Up, Falling Down, Wild Hogs and I Shot Andy Warhol. Hennessy is repped by Atlas Artists and legal respectable Matt Saver.