The Casting Call 09.08.09

The Casting Call brings together the latest casting news to keep you informed on who is showing up on which show. Find out who is joining your favorite show as a series regular, a recurring character, a guest star or special cameo. The Casting Call could reveal upcoming story-lines, so be aware, there may be spoilers ahead.

24 (Fox)
Three actors have joined the show for its eighth season. Rami Malek will play Marcos, a would-be suicide bomber with sympathies toward radical Islam. Julian Morris will play a CTU SWAT agent. Hrach Titizian will play Nabeel, the second-in-command of security for President Hassan (Anil Kapoor). Titizian also appeared on 24 in 2007.

Chuck (NBC)
Angie Harmon will be guest starring this season. She appears in Episode 4 as a spy named Sydney. She is a spy for the Ring looking to kill Ryan McPartlin’s Captain Awesome alter ego.

Covert Affairs (USA)
Eric Lively and Kari Matchett have joined the USA’s new pilot as regulars. Lively will play Conrad Sheehan III, a third-generation CIA man and womanizer who enjoys a spicy rapport with Annie. Matchett will play a driven CIA agent who is the head of the agency’s Domestic Protection Division and Annie’s new boss. The show centers on Annie Walker (Piper Perabo), a multilingual CIA trainee who joins the agency while still reeling over a mysterious ex-boyfriend (Bailey) who appears to be of particular interest to her bosses.

White Collar (USA)
Natalie Morales has been added to the cast of USA Network’s upcoming series as a regular. The show follows the pairing of a con artist (Matthew Bomer) and the head of the FBI’s white-collar crime unit (Tim DeKay). Morales will play Lauren Cruz, a smart junior FBI agent in the white-collar division who holds her own with her superiors and the master thieves she’s investigating. She originally was cast as a guest star for two episodes.