Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave is headed to ABC.
The 76-year-old actress, who snared an Academy Award for “Julia” (in 1977), will star in a “limited series” called “Black Box” opposite Kelly Reilly (“Sherlock Holmes”), according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In the show, Redgrave will play a psychiatrist named Dr. Hartramph, who knows all the secrets of a famed neuroscientist, Elizabeth Black (Reilly) – who, unbeknownst to her family and fiance, is battling mental illness (among other secrets she’s withholding).
Redgrave, a six-time Oscar nominee, is no stranger to TV, having starred in “Call the Midwife” on PBS. She also guest-starred on USA’s “Political Animals” and “Nip/Tuck” on FX.
She’s currently appearing in the big-screen hit “The Butler” and also appeared in “Letters to Juliet.”
Reilly, 36, has appeared on TV in “Above Suspicion” and on the big screen in “Me and Orson Welles,” “Pride & Prejudice” and opposite Denzel Washington in 2012’s “Flight.”
ABC, which picked up 13 episodes of “Black Box” in June – without a pilot – hasn’t set a premiere date for the drama. It is likely to debut in January if any of ABC’s new fall shows fail, according to the report.
The series is written by Amy Holden Jones (“Mystic Pizza,” “Indecent Proposal”) and will be directed by Simon Curtis (“My Week With Marilyn”).
Ilene Chaiken (“The L Word”) will be the series showrunner.