Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy will star in “The Good Daughter,” Peacock‘s upcoming restricted collection collection primarily based on the Karin Slaughter novel of the identical title. Byrne additionally serves as government producer.
The official logline reads, “‘The Good Daughter’ is a suspenseful crime drama the place sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha (Rose Byrne) Quinn have spent the final 28 years making an attempt to piece collectively the lives that have been fractured by a single night time of violence. When one other assault splinters the small city of Pikeville, Charlotte is the primary witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s compelled to confront her personal demons because the case twists by way of one stunning revelation after one other. In the long run, each she and Samantha discover themselves questioning if the value of being the great daughter was price it in spite of everything.”
Charlotte was initially set to be performed by Jessica Biel, who later departed the challenge.
Fahy is greatest identified for starring as Daphne Sullivan in Season 2 of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” Most just lately, she performed Merritt Monaco within the Netflix restricted collection “The Excellent Couple,” with different earlier credit together with “The Daring Kind” on Freeform, “Political Animals” on USA and the ABC cleaning soap opera “One Life to Dwell.” Up subsequent, Fahy stars reverse Josh O’Connor within the Sundance movie “Rebuilding” and reverse Zachare Levi within the movie “The Unbreakable Boy,” releasing through Lionsgate in 2025.
She is repped by WME, Nameless Content material, Shelter PR and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern.
Byrne’s distinguished credit embody comedy movies like “Bridesmaids” and “Neighbors” in addition to the FX drama collection “Damages” and a number of “Insidious” and “X-Males” movies. Lately, Byrne led the Apple TV+ comedies “Bodily” and “Platonic,” and her upcoming initiatives embody the movies “Tow” and “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”
She is repped by CAA and RGM Artists.
Slaughter, who beforehand wrote and tailored her novels “Items of Her” and “Will Trent,” will write and government produce all episodes of “The Good Daughter.” She is repped by Victoria Sanders and Associates, Jeffrey Frankel of McKuin Frankel Whitehead LLP and WME.
Together with Slaughter and Byrne, government producers additionally embody Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver for Made Up Tales in addition to director Steph Inexperienced. Fifth Season serves because the studio and distributor.
