‘Nine Perfect Strangers’: Annie Murphy & Christine Baranski Among Season 2 Cast Additions

Emmy winners Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek) and Christine Baranski (The Gilded Age) have been tapped to star in the upcoming second season of Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers. Also set as series regulars in the new installment are Lucas Englander (Transatlantic) and musician King Princess in her acting debut.

They join previously unveiled cast members Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus, The Last Of Us), Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Undeclared War) and Aras Aydin.

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The octet would play members of the new group of titular strangers opposite series’ executive producer Nicole Kidman, whose acting involvement is still being negotiated, I hear.

Based on Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty’s book, Nine Perfect Strangers hails from David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Kidman’s Blossom Films and Fifth Season.

Season 2 is said to be following the general formula of the first installment in a new location, the Swiss Alps. Nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living with a 10-day star at a boutique wellness resort run by the resort’s director Masha (Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine “perfect” strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.

Bartlett will play Brian, Baranski is Victoria, Murphy will portray Imogen, de Leon will play Agnes, Richardson-Sellers is Wolfie, King Princess will portray Tina, Aydin will play Matteo and Englander is Martin.

Nine Perfect Strangers, which started off as a limited series, debuted in September 2021 as Hulu’s most-watched Hulu original ever — drama, comedy, limited series or unscripted — on premiere day as well as after five days on the service, according to the streamer.

Season 1 was co-written by Kelley, John Henry Butterworth and Samantha Strauss and co-showrun by Kelley and Butterworth. It also starred Melissa McCarthy. Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Bobby Cannavale, Regina Hall, Samara Weaving, Melvin Gregg, Asher Keddie, Grace Van Patten, Tiffany Boone and Manny Jacinto.

Murphy is repped by CAA and Mosaic; Bartlett with Anonymous Content and WME; de Leon is repped by Gersh, Fusion Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Richardson-Sellers is repped by Gersh, Denton-Brierly, Luber Roklin and Schreck, Rose, Dapello & Adams; King Princess is repped by WME and Adam Herzog of Something Special Management; Aydin is with Ozlem Durak of Artistanbul; Englander is repped by Sam Turnbull of Curtis Brown (UK), Jochen Döll of Lastrada Doells (Germany), Laura Meerson of Adequat (France) and Baranski is repped by UTA and Viking Entertainment.

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