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Nick Nolte joins Fox’s ‘Broadchurch’

Fox’s adaptation of “Broadchurch” has added another A-list feather to its casting cap.

Veteran tough-guy actor Nick Nolte has joined the cast of “Gracepoint,” an adaptation of the BBC America series that aired last summer with stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman as world-weary cops investigating the murder of a young boy in a seaside town with many secrets — and many suspects.

Nolte will play Jack Reinhold, an unmarried man who lives in the seaside town of Gracepoint and runs both a kayak-rental shop and a wildlife observation program (where the murdered boy worked as a volunteer).

Nolte’s role is similar to the Jack Marshall character played on “Broadchurch” by David Bradley. In that series, Marshall ran the local newspaper shop — the murdered boy had a paper route and picked up his papers there — and he also oversaw the Sea Brigade, a Boy Scouts-type local organization (of which the murdered boy was a member).

“Gracepoint,” which begins shooting next month and will air next year, has already snared Tennant — who will reprise his “Broadchurch” role with a few changes (including a different name) — and Anna Gunn, who’ll play Tennant’s cop partner and is known to TV fans as Walter White’s wife, Skyler, on “Breaking Bad.”

“Gracepoint” is a rare detour into TV for Nolte, 72, whose appearances on the small screen have been few and far between since his breakthrough role in the 1976 ABC miniseries, “Rich Man, Poor Man.”

Nolte had a role in “Luck,” HBO’s low-rated horse-racing drama starring Dustin Hoffman that ran for nine episodes and was cancelled in March 2012, after concerns were raised about the treatment of the horses on the show.

“Gracepoint” will also co-star Michael Pena (“American Hustle”) and Jacki Weaver, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar last year for her role opposite Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings Playbook.”

The 10-part Fox series is being developed by Dan Futterman and Anya Epstein (HBO’s “In Treatment”), while “Broadchurch” creator Chris Chibnall will be an executive producer and will write the first episode.