Production is officially underway on Netflix’s Kennedy series starring Michael Fassbender as the family patriarch Joe Sr. The streamer announced the start of production in London and released the first photo of Fassbender in character.
The series, based on Fredrik Logevall’s book, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, also confirmed more than a dozen new recurring cast members.
In addition to Fassbender, the eight-episode season stars Laura Donnelly as Rose Kennedy, Nick Robinson as Joe Kennedy Jr., and Joshuah Melnick as Jack Kennedy. The previously announced recurring cast includes Ben Miles as Eddie Moore, Lydia Peckham as Rosemary Kennedy, Saura Lightfoot-Leon as Kick Kennedy, Cole Doman as Lem Billings, and Imogen Poots as Gloria Swanson.
“Kennedy reveals the intimate lives, loves, rivalries, and tragedies that shaped the most iconic dynasty in modern history and helped create the world we live in today,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “Beginning in the 1930s, the first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.”
The New Kennedy Recurring Cast:
- Georgina Bitmead (The Assassin) plays Eunice Kennedy. The fifth child of Joe Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
- Miley Locke (Amandaland) plays younger Kick Kennedy. The fourth child of Joe and Rose.
- Tipper Seifert-Cleveland (Crookhaven) plays younger Rosemary Kennedy. The third child of Joe and Rose.
- Hera Hilmar (See) plays Inga Arvad. A Danish journalist and former motion picture star who was a close associate of Jack during the early 1940s.
- Wyatt Russell (Monarch) plays Charles Lindbergh. The American aviator who achieved international fame for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927.
- Patrick Fischler (Paradise) plays Arthur Krock. An influential American journalist who served as the Washington Bureau Chief for The New York Times from 1932 to 1953.
- Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession) plays Clare Boothe Luce. A prominent American writer and socialite in the Kennedy circle during the late 1930s, who went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.
- Louis Landau (Rivals) plays Billy Cavendish. The Marquess of Hartington and a member of the British aristocracy.
- Robin Soans (Victoria & Abdul) plays Neville Chamberlain. The British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, known for his leadership during the years leading up to World War II.
- Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story) plays Raymond Furness. A career official within the U.S. State Department who served at the U.S. Embassy in London during the late 1930s.
- Albert Welling (Succession) plays Winston Churchill. The British statesman and First Lord of the Admiralty, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
- Toby Huss (Weapons) plays Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 32nd President of the United States who served from 1933 until his death in 1945.
- Eddie Marsan (No Ordinary Heist) plays J. Edgar Hoover. The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who led the agency from its inception in 1935 until 1972.
Sam Shaw serves as the showrunner and executive produces along with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Kaitlin Dahill, Eric Roth, Fredrik Logevall, Lila Byock, Anya Epstein, Dustin Thomason, Thomas Vinterberg, and Anna O’Malley. Vinterberg is the director.
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