Variety reports that Lorenza Izzo has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot “What Dead People Know.”
Izzo will appear in the pilot from executive producer Dick Wolf, along with previously announced star Taylor Schilling and fellow cast member Michelle Huisman. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by former New York City medical examiner Barbara Butcher.
The show’s logline reads, “Death investigator Eva Ledger (Schilling) is very good at working with corpses. It’s the living that haunt her. ‘What the Dead Know’ follows Eva as she teams up with the NYPD to solve their toughest cases.”
Izzo plays a detective. Daniel Castillo is described as “a computer crimes specialist with the New York City Police Department who was recently reassigned to homicide.”
Izzo stars as Ruby in the hit HBO Max series “Hacks.” She has also appeared in shows such as “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” and “Feed the Beast.” She will next be seen in the Amazon series “El Gato Negro.” In film, she has appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as well as Fletch, The Woman Is Loser, and The Stone Cold Fox.
She is repped by IAG and 1v1 Entertainment.
“What the Dead Know” is written and executive produced by Beth Reinhart. Wolf will executive produce alongside Tom Thayer, Peter Jankowski and Anastasia Puglisi through Wolf Entertainment. Fred Berner will direct and executive produce the pilot. Kevin Plunkett, Rebecca McGill and Butcher will serve as co-executive producers. Universal Television, with whom Wolf has an overall contract, will produce.
