"Grey's Anatomy" star Jerrika Hinton joins "The Incredibles 2" actress Holly Hunter in HBO's upcoming Alan Ball series. Is she leaving her recurring role as Dr. Stephanie Edwards in ABC's top-rated drama "Grey's Anatomy?"
According to Variety, Hinton has joined the HBO's Alan Ball series in a guest capacity and will remain a series regular on "Grey's Anatomy" at least through the remainder of Season 13. Her status on the said new project could evolve into a bigger role, depending on how "Grey's Anatomy" progresses.
"Six Feet Under" and "True Blood" creator Ball wrote the untitled HBO series, which is described as a tragicomic meditation on the complicated forces at work on us all in America today, Deadline reported. "Scream" actress Sosie Bacon, "Fear the Walking Dead" actor Daniel Zovatto, and Raymond Lee are also joining the cast and will all appear as series regulars.
The HBO's Alan Ball series centers around a contemporary multi-racial family: a philosophy professor Greg Bishop (not yet cast), his lawyer wife Audrey Black (Hunter), their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia (Hinton, Zovatto, and Lee), and their sole biological child (Bacon). The couple are socially conscious idealists who decided to build a family by adopting children from various countries before having their own child in their 40s. Then, one of the children begins to see things other cannot, making them wonder whether it is a mental illness or something else.
The adopted children are Duc (Lee) who is a successful life coach and was five when he was adopted from Vietnam, Ashley (Hinton) who is creator and owner of a retail fashion website and got adopted when her Somalian mother died and her Somalian father deported, and, lastly, Ramon (Zovatto) who was adopted from an orphanage in Columbia at 18 months and is now in his final year of college, studying video game design.
In "Grey's Anatomy," Hinton plays surgical resident Dr. Edwards, started joining the medical drama in Season 9 in a recurring role, and was upped to series regular in Season 10. The drama returns on Jan. 19. It has not been renewed yet for Season 14, though it seems more-than-likely, as it is ABC's top-rated drama.
There is still no announcement about the premiere date for the HBO's upcoming Alan Ball drama series, which was picked up straight-to-series. Ball executive produces it through his Your Face Goes Here, along with Peter Macdissi. The series falls under a new overall deal Ball signed with HBO last year and marks the first series regular role for Bacon, daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
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