HBO’s The Trial of Louise Woodward has added Natalia Dyer, Jack Reynor, and John Magaro to its cast, according to Deadline. The three join an ensemble anchored by Meghann Fahy, Hugh Laurie, Chloë Sevigny, Joanne Froggatt, and Catriona Chandler, who plays Louise Woodward.
Reynor plays Gerry Leone, the lead prosecutor in the 1997 trial. Magaro takes the role of Barry Scheck, the lead defense counsel. Dyer is set as Ada Lynn Rooney, a Middlesex County assistant district attorney.
The limited series, created by Matthew Barry, revisits the case of Louise Woodward, an 18-year-old British au pair living in Newton, Massachusetts when baby Matthew Eappen died in her care. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 1997, a verdict later reduced to involuntary manslaughter by the trial judge. The case played out on live television and became a defining media event of the late nineties, splitting public opinion in both the UK and the US.
The supporting cast fills out both sides of the courtroom. Fahy and Sagar Radia play Deborah and Sunil Eappen, the victim’s parents. Froggatt plays Susan Woodward, Louise’s mother. Sevigny is cast as defense attorney Elaine Whitfield Sharp. Laurie plays Judge Hiller B. Zobel, who presided over the original trial.
No premiere date has been announced.