Update: Per Deadline Connie Nielsen has exited the upcoming CBS fall show. The role will be recast.
Connie Nielsen has been cast in a lead role in Dick Wolf’s upcoming CBS drama series “FBI,” Variety has learned.
The series will detail the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nielsen will star as Ellen, the FBI Special Agent in Charge. Described as a deeply respected boss, Ellen is elegant, cultured, and operates under massive political, public, and self-imposed pressure. She deals by being highly organized and disarmingly direct. She’ll do anything for her agents who earn it, and is impossible to intimidate.
The series will detail the inner workings of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nielsen will star as Ellen, the FBI Special Agent in Charge. Described as a deeply respected boss, Ellen is elegant, cultured, and operates under massive political, public, and self-imposed pressure. She deals by being highly organized and disarmingly direct. She’ll do anything for her agents who earn it, and is impossible to intimidate.
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