Promising actress Laura Marcus has been selected to join the all-star cast of Death By Lightning for Netflix's latest mini-drama series.
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Marcus will play Mollie Garfield, the daughter of President Garfield, in the upcoming historical drama. The British star recently appeared in the shows The Serpent Queen and The Jetty. Her other TV credits include Silent Witness, Tom Jones, Bad Education and Miss Scarlet & the Duke.
Marcus joins previously announced cast members Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) as Charles Guiteau, Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) as President James Garfield, Nick Offerman (The Last of Us) as Chester A. Arthur, Betty Gilpin (GLOW) as First Lady Crete Garfield, Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) as Secretary of State James Blaine, Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire) as Senator Roscoe Conkling, Stephen McKinley Henderson (Civil War) as Senator Blanche Bruce, Paula Malcomson (Parish) as Franny Scoville and Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey) as Kate Chase Sprague.
“The limited-time drama brings to life the epic, stranger-than-fiction true story of James Garfield (Shannon), the reluctant 20th President of the United States, and his greatest admirer Charles Guiteau (Macfadyen) — the man who would come to assassinate him,” the logline reads.
