Michelle Forbes has joined the cast of A&E Network’s “The Returned.” The redo of French drama “Les Revanants” hails from A&E Network Studios and Fremantle Media North America. The series has generated heat on both sides of the Atlantic for its moody take on a story of a small town upended when several people presumed dead return without any awareness that they were gone.
Forbes will play Helen Goddard, a mysterious woman who is one of the returnees. Carlton Cuse, exec producer of A&E’s “Bates Motel,” is shepherding “Returned” with Raelle Tucker (“True Blood”). Series has a 10-episode order from A&E. Jeremy Sisto, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Mark Pellegrino and Kevin Alejandro are also set to star.
Forbes is becoming a go-to player for cult-fave genre properties. She was most recently seen in BBC America’s “Orphan Black” and is in the midst of shooting a supporting role in the last two “Hunger Games” features: parts 1 and 2 of “Mockingjay.” She was also a regular in the first two seasons of AMC’s “The Killing” and appeared in “Battlestar Galactica.”
