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Fox series adds Oscar winners Hunt, Dreyfuss

Bill Keveney
USA TODAY
Academy Award winner Helen Hunt has joined the cast of the Fox event series, 'Shots Fired.'

Fox's upcoming event series, Shots Fired, has added some heavyweight talent: Oscar winners Helen Hunt and Richard Dreyfuss and True Blood star Stephen Moyer.

The actors will join Sanaa Lathan (The Perfect Guy) and Stephan James (Race, Selma) in a story that looks at the aftermath of racially charged shootings in North Carolina.

Lathan and James play an expert investigator and special prosecutor, respectively, who are sent to look into the case by the Department of Justice.

'True Blood' star Stephen Moyer has joined the cast of 'Shots Fired,' a Fox event series due later this year.

As Fox's Friday announcement states: "The pair must navigate the media attention, public debate and the social unrest that comes with such volatile cases, as they seek justice before the divided town erupts. The two are drawn into further political intrigue when they find their investigation manipulated by the politically fierce Governor Patricia Eamons (Hunt), … the first female and Democratic governor in the state … who prides herself on not being a typical politician."

Hunt (Mad About You), who won an Oscar for As Good As It Gets, has signed on for the first season of the event series.

Dreyfuss, who recently starred in Madoff and won an Oscar for The Goodbye Girl, will play Arlen Cox, "a real estate mogul and owner of a privatized prison who is intricately involved in the shootings."

Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss has joined the cast of 'Shots Fired,' a Fox event series that will premiere this year.

Moyer (The Bastard Executioner) will play Officer Breeland, "a seasoned veteran in the town’s Sheriff’s Department, who gets caught in the middle of the investigation."

Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond the LightsThe Secret Life of Bees, Love & Basketball) and Reggie Rock Bythewood (Beyond the Lights, Love & Basketball) are executive producers of the series, which will be broadcast later this year.

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