‘House of the Dragon,’ ‘Conversations With Friends’ Stars Board ‘Mare of Easttown’ Creator’s HBO Crime Drama

The HBO drama from Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby continues to build out its cast.

House of the Dragon regular Fabien Frankel and Conversations With Friends star Alison Oliver are the latest to join the limited series, which revolves around members of a law enforcement task force and the people they’re trying to apprehend. The untitled series stars Mark Ruffalo as Tom, an FBI agent leading the task force to stop a string of drug-house robberies, led by an unsuspecting family man, in the Philadelphia suburbs.

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Frankel — Ser Criston Cole on HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel — will play Anthony, a key member of the task force. Oliver will play Lizzie, an underperforming state police officer added to Tom’s team.

The actors join a cast that also includes Tom Pelphrey, Emilia Jones, Thuso Mbedu, Raúl Castillo, Jamie McShane and Sam Keeley.

The series is based on an original idea by Ingelsby and comes from independent studio Wiip, which also produced Mare of Easttown. Ingelsby, who has an overall deal at HBO, executive produces with directors Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Ruffalo, Paul Lee and Mark Roybal of Wiip, and David Crockett. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches are co-EPs.

Frankel’s credits also include the BBC/Netflix miniseries The Serpent and Last Christmas. He is repped by Curtis Brown Group, WME, Luber Roklin and Jackoway Austen. Oliver stars with Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan in Saltburn; she is repped by Curtis Brown and CAA.

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