Per Deadline, Peacock has cast Rose Byrne (Bluey, Physical) and Meghann Fahy (The Perfect Couple, The White Lotus) to star in their upcoming limited series, The Good Daughter. Byrne and Fahy will portray sisters Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, respectively. Fahy will be taking on the role that Jessica Biel was originally set to play, before Biel’s exit from the project last September.
Based on author Karin Slaughter’s (Will Trent, Pieces of Her) bestselling novel of the same name, The Good Daughter was picked up straight-to-series by the NBCU streaming service in March. Deadline describes the story as centering around sisters Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, who have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, she and Samantha wonder if the price of being the good daughter was indeed worth it after all.
According to Deadline, Slaughter will write all episodes and executive produce. Bruna Papandrea (Strife, Wolf Like Me), Steve Hutensky (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Roar) and Casey Haver (Long Slow Exhale, Nine Perfect Strangers) will executive produce alongside Byrne. Emmy Award-nominated director Steph Green (Watchmen, The Americans) will direct and executive produce all episodes. The series hails from Fifth Season and Made Up Stories.
Byrne is represented by CAA and RGM Artists. Fahy is represented by WME, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Slaughter is represented by WME, Victoria Sanders and Associates and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.