According to Deadline, Daphnee Duplaix (One Life to Live, Lost & Found), Karla Mosley (How To Train Your Husband, From the Heart) and Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: Special Victims, See You in September) is joining the cast of Beyond The Gates as the fictional Dupree family members.
The show’s original title was The Gates but it was recently changed.
Tunie will take on the role of former singer and head of the household, Anita Dupree. She has provided for her two children alongside her husband and is hardworking, which helped her reach her success. However, beneath her tough external appearance is a ferociousness she developed in her beginnings in Chicago.
Duplaix will play Anita’s high-achieving daughter, Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson. Nicole is a competitive psychiatrist and philanthropist who is married to a surgeon. Although she has these qualities, she also exhibits compassion, empathy and warmth.Her life appears picture perfect from the outside, but it runs deeper than that.
Mosley will act as Dani Dupree, Anita’s former model daughter who chose love over a career. Dani is headstrong, impetuous and free-spirited, so she was labeled the family’s wild child. In order to go after an opportunistic modeling career, she drops out of school and starts to follow her dream right away.
Beyond The Gates is the first one-hour Black daytime drama to air on TV and the first to premiere since the 1999 show Passions. The series will take place in a Maryland suburb outside of Washington, D.C. Filming will start subsequently this fall in Atlanta and debut in early 2025 on CBS.
The soap opera will be released by NAACP Venture and CBS Studios, which are also partnered with P&G Studios.
Michele Van Jean (General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful) is the showrunner, creator and executive producer. Along with Jean, other executive producers include Anna Saalfeld (Empire Waist, Serving in Secret, Country, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell), Derrick Johnson (55th NAACP Image Awards), Julie Carruthers (General Hospital, Santa Barbara), Leon Russell (Ghost Rider, The Kids Are All Right) , Kimberly Doebereiner (The Turning Point, The Tender Mender), Sheila Ducksworth (Ambitions, The Baxters) and Robert Guza Jr (General Hospital, Melanie).