Lea Michele Joins 'Sons of Anarchy's' Final Season

As Sons of Anarchy prepares to unspool its final season in September, fans are anxiously waiting to find out how Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam) will react when/if he learns who’s really responsible for the brutal murder of his wife. But we already know this: There will be a lot of familiar faces — familiar from other pop culture projects — along the way.

Musicians Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love, Justified star Walton Goggins, and The Cosby Show alum Malcolm-Jamal Warner have already been announced as Season 7 guest stars, and now a Glee star will interact with the Teller family: Lea Michele tweeted on Monday a photo of herself — with SoA executive producer and director Paris Barclay — on the Sons set, where she’s filming a guest appearance.

"On set at @SonsofAnarchy with my favorite person @Harparbar. This is so cool!" Michele tweeted, after earlier announcing her guest gig on what she calls her favorite show.

Sons creator Kurt Sutter added on Twitter: “I’m working on the dance number right now!”

Michele’s appearance will mark the third Glee-SoA connection. Barclay has received three Emmy nominations as a director on Glee, while Golden Globe-winning SoA star Katey Sagal — Sutter’s real-life wife — guest starred on Glee in Season 4, playing mom to Kevin McHale’s Artie.

An FX rep tells Yahoo TV Michele will play Gertie, “an empathetic truck stop waitress and single mother, who connects with Gemma during a difficult time.” Hmmm… truck stop… could Gemma (Sagal) go on the lam after her son finds out what she did?

FX confirms Michele will make her SoA debut in the season’s sixth episode on Oct. 14.

As for the season’s other guest stars, both Manson and Warner make their debut in the Sept. 9 season premiere, with Manson playing Ron Tully, an (almost unrecognizable) inmate and white supremacist who Jax approaches about an alliance, while Warner pops up as Sticky, the vice-president of the Grim Bastards MC, a SAMCRO ally.

Love, whose acting résumé includes a Golden Globe-nominated performance in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, will play Ms. Harrison, Abel Teller’s preschool teacher, and Annabeth Gish (The Bridge and Pretty Little Liars) will play the new Charming sheriff, who also wants to solve the Tara murder mystery.

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Emmy nominee Goggins will reprise his fan-favorite guest role as Venus Van Dam, the transgender prostitute who’s a friend of SAMCRO and Jimmy Smits’ Nero Padilla. And, if Hunnam’s comments during the Television Critics Association summer press tour earlier this month hint at what many SoA fans hope they do, Venus and her crush Tig (Kim Coates) might add a little romance to the final season.

In more SoA news, Sutter confirmed during the series’ San Diego Comic-Con panel on Sunday that “talks are ongoing” regarding an SoA prequel, which he said could be a “full-on series or a mini-series.” He also told fans not to expect a Sons of Anarchy spinoff — as much as we might all love to see the misadventures of Tig and Juice, for example — because he thinks spinoffs only work for procedural dramas.

Finally, though we may not see further adventures of the current characters on screen, Jax and company will live on in a new series of Sons books.

Sutter shared with Comic-Con attendees the cover for Sons of Anarchy: Bratva, a novel set during the show’s fourth season, and revolving around a story with Jax, Chibs (Tommy Flanagan), and the late Opie (Ryan Hurst).

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Bratva, written by Christopher Golden (a New York Times bestselling author whose novel Snowblind has a cover blurb from Season 3 SoA guest star Stephen King and out on Nov. 11, is described thusly at the St. Martin’s Press website: “Jax learns that his half-sister, Trinity, has been in the U.S. for months without his knowing, and has abruptly gone missing. He heads to Nevada with Chibs and Opie to search for her, only to find that Trinity has gotten herself caught in the middle of a war between rival factions of the Russian mafia, and dragged Jax and the Sons in after her.”

Sons of Anarchy Season 7 premieres on Sept. 9 at 10 p.m. on FX.