& Poppy Liu
Netflix announce the latest cast additions to No Good Deed, a new dark comedy series from creator and executive producer Liz Feldman (Dead to Me).
• Linda Cardellini (Dead to Me, Green Book) plays “Margo Starling” – A perfectly-coiffed status seeker with buried secrets to spare, Margo knows how to get what she wants – and what she wants is the in-demand Morgan house so she can flip it for profit with her lover, a high-end developer.
• Luke Wilson (Fingernails, Horizons, You Gotta Believe) plays “JD Campbell” — A depressed, out-of-work soap opera star desperate to land his next job, JD is looking to downsize from his modern McMansion while still maintaining both his lavish lifestyle and his marriage to a demanding wife.
• Teyonah Parris (The Marvels, They Cloned Tyrone, Wandavision) plays “Carla” – A high-achieving and somewhat sardonic architect and expectant mother, Carla and new husband Dennis are on the hunt for the perfect home for their expanding family. She falls hard for the Morgan house but the impending financial stress reveals some cracks in her new marriage.
• Abbi Jacobson (A League of Their Own, Broad City) plays “Leslie Fisher” – Clever, curious and competitive to a fault, Leslie is thrilled to discover that the Los Feliz home she and her wife have admired from afar has finally come on the market.
• Poppy Liu (Hacks, Dead Ringers, Better Call Saul and The After Party) plays “Sarah” — Soulful, grounded and uncompromisingly decent, Sarah often serves as a much-needed moral compass to wife Leslie (Abbi Jacobson) — though she’s not without some secrets of her own. She’s intrigued when the Morgan house comes on the market but has some deep reservations.
• Previously announced cast includes Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow.
• Logline: No Good Deed is a half hour, dark comedy that follows three very different families vying to buy the very same 1920s Spanish style villa that they think will solve all their problems. But as the sellers have already discovered, sometimes the home of your dreams can be a total nightmare.
• Format: Dark Comedy / 8 Episodes
• Creator / Showrunner / Executive Producer: Liz Feldman
• Executive Producers: Will Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum for Gloria Sanchez Productions; Christie Smith; Silver Tree (who will direct the pilot and additional episodes)
• Casting: Sherry Thomas & Russell Scott
• Linda Cardellini Bio: SAG, Emmy, and Spirit Award nominated Linda Cardellini is one of the most versatile actresses of her generation currently working in both film and television. Most recently, Cardellini can be seen in Netflix’s Emmy and SAG nominated dark comedy series “Dead to Me” alongside Christina Applegate from showrunner Liz Feldman and Gloria Sanchez Productions. The show was one of Netflix’s most watched series. Cardellini earned an Emmy nomination and a SAG nomination for her performance in the second season. The third and final season premiered on November 17, 2022. Cardellini has partnered with “Dead to Me” writer Kelly Hutchinson on a feature film project, “Murder Party,” that has been acquired by Amazon Studios. The film will be led by an all-female ensemble cast with Cardellini in one of the roles. The project marks both Cardellini and Hutchinson’s feature writing debut. Additional film credits include her portrayal of ‘Velma’ in Warner Brothers’ “Scooby-Doo” films, “Green Book,” “The Founder” opposite Michael Keaton, Donovan Marsh’s thriller, “Hunter Killer” with Gerard Butler, Billy Bob Thornton, and Gary Oldman, Paul Feig’s “A Simple Favor,” with Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, and Henry Golding, “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Avengers: End Game,” “Capone,” “The Curse of La Llorona,” “Welcome to Me,” “Daddy’s Home,” “Return,” “Bloodline,” and her portrayal of ‘Lylla the Otter’ in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.” In television, Cardellini’s talent first came to prominence starring as academic decathlete ‘Lindsay Weir’ on the celebrated Emmy-nominated NBC series “Freaks and Geeks.” Additional television credits include “Mad Men” and “ER.”
• Luke Wilson Bio: Luke Wilson’s career started in 1994 with James L. Brooks production of Columbia Pictures’ Bottle Rocket that was also the debut of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson. A collaboration that continued with Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Wilson’s work has ranged from dramas to the iconic comedies Idiocracy, The Family Stone, Legally Blonde, and Old School. And in the world of comedy he collaborated with Adam Sandler, Kristen Wiig, Tracy Morgen, Ben Stiller, Martin Lawrence, and 5 films with Will Ferrell. Wilson considers himself lucky to have worked alongside such Hollywood legends as Gene Hackman, Ben Kingsley, Angelica Huston, Nick Nolte, Diane Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jeff Bridges. His forays into television have included work with Mike White, Vince Gilligan, and D.C. Comics’ Geoff Johns. His admiration of musicians has found him on projects such as the film Masked and Anonymous with Bob Dylan, and projects with Cameron Crowe, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Petty, and Kris Kristofferson. Wilson’s work as a writer has produced the film The Wendell Baker Story which he also co-directed with his brother Andrew starring Eva Mendes and Harry Dean Stanton as well as the award-winning short film Satellite Beach as well as the upcoming Mexican Baseball movie Juarez 9 and Pecos River Bridge both of which Wilson wrote. Wilson’s most recent films are Sony Pictures Classic Depression era football film 12 Mighty Orphans in which Wilson starred as legendary Texas football coach Rusty Russell and the courtroom drama Miranda’s Victim in which he stars alongside Donald Sutherland and Abigail Breslin. Wilson portrays the lawyer, Lawrence Turoff. As well as the Apple film drama Fingernails alongside Jesse Buckley, Jeremy Allen White and Riz Ahmed. Wilson also voices Bruce Wayne/Batman in Merry Little Batman for Amazon. Upcoming, Luke can be seen in Kevin Costner’s 4 film western epic Horizon from Warner Bros and New Line Cinema. Kevin Costner wrote and is directing. The film is Costner’s long dreamed of story of westward expansion in the American West in the 1860s. Wilson stars alongside Sienna Miller and Sam Worthington. Luke will also be seen in Ty Roberts’ You Gotta Believe opposite Greg Kinnear.
• Teyonah Parris Bio: Juilliard bred Teyonah Parris seamlessly transitions from stage to screen. In Parris’ most recent theatrical release, THE MARVELS, she plays the iconic superhero ‘Monica Rambeau’ reprising the role she originated in the Emmy nominated series, WANDAVISION for Disney+. Also, this year she dazzles in Juel Taylor’s THEY CLONED TYRONE opposite John Boyega and Jaime Foxx for Netflix and this holiday she stars in DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW for Disney+.
• Abbi Jacobson Bio: Abbi Jacobson is a co-creator, writer, director, executive producer and star of the critically acclaimed show Broad City, which was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for ‘Best Comedy Series.’ Most recently, Jacobson executive produced, acted as showrunner and starred in the highly anticipated Amazon Prime Video series, A League of Their Own, based on the 1992 film of the same name. The show, which premiered on August 12 th 2023, infuses the warmth, humor and DNA of the classic film, while expanding its lens to explore race and sexuality as the series follows a new ensemble of women carving out their own paths in the league and outside of it. The cast includes D’Arcy Carden, Chanté Adams, Nick Offerman, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Roberta Colindrez and Priscilla Delgado. Jacobson can also be heard voicing the character “Katie Mitchell,” a creative outsider who is accepted into the school of her dreams, in the Netflix animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machines alongside Maya Rudolph, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman and Danny McBride, which released on April 30, 2021. The film received an Academy Award(R) nomination for “Best Animated Feature” and won eight Annie Awards for animation, including “Best Animated Feature.” In addition, Jacobson, along with Ilana Glazer, currently have in development at Comedy Central the animated comedy Mall Town USA. In 2018, Jacobson released the book I Might Regret This, published by Grand Central Publishing which hit the New York Times Best Sellers List. She is already a New York Times-bestselling author of her illustrated book, Carry This Book, which showcases bright, quirky, and colorful line drawings at the world around us, all through the framework of what we carry. She also has two coloring books: Color This Book: New York City and Color This Book: San Francisco. Jacobson can also be heard as “Bean” in Netflix’s third season of the animated series Disenchantment by Matt Groenig. Jacobson previously starred in Netflix’s 6 Balloons, alongside Dave Franco, the animated Warner Bros. film, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, directed by Charlie Bean and Paul Fisher and opposite Olivia Munn, Justin Theroux, and Fred Armisen, and the Universal feature film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. Jacobson also hosted A Piece of Work podcast with WNYC and MoMA, in which she discussed modern and contemporary art in lively conversations with curators, artists, and friends including Hannibal Buress, Tavi Gevinson, RuPaul and Questlove
• Poppy Liu Bio: Poppy Liu is a first-generation Chinese American actor and producer who brings their identity as a queer migrant person of the API diaspora into art and entertainment. Poppy is best known for her role as ‘Kiki’ in the critically acclaimed Max series “Hacks,” for which she was SAG-nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Prior to this, Poppy has appeared on television in “The Afterparty,” “Dead Ringers,” “Wedding Season,” “American Born Chinese,” “Tales of the Walking Dead,” “Sunnyside,” “Better Call Saul,” “iCarly,” “Dollface,” and “New Amsterdam.” She will next be seen in the Amazon feature film “Space Cadet,” opposite Emma Roberts. In addition to acting, Poppy is passionate about producing indie work with her community and serves on the board of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. Poppy has been named the 2022 HBO APA Visionaries Ambassador, one of The Advocate’s 2021 People of the Year, one of Out Magazine’s OUT100 2021, and one of The Advocate’s Champions of Pride in 2019.
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Netflix, Inc.
