TV Castings: Lifetime’s ‘The Client List’

Rebecca Field (ABC’s October Road) has joined Lifetime’s upcoming drama series The Client List as a series regular. Based on the network’s 2010 original movie, the series stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Riley, a Texas housewife who, after being deserted by her husband, ends up running a massage parlor. Field, repped by Greene & Associates, will play Lacey, Riley’s best friend since high school.
 The Playboy Club co-star Naturi Naughton has joined the cast of Lifetime’s upcoming drama series “The Client List” as a series regular.
Based on the network’s 2010 original movie, the Sony TV-produced series stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Riley, a Texas housewife who, after being deserted by her husband, ends up running a massage parlor, The Rub, which offers more than back rub.
Naughton will play a new character, Kendra, a beautiful, hard-working masseuse at the parlor. Actress-singer Naughton, who co-starred in the 2009 feature remake of Fame, played Black bunny Brenda on NBC’s short-lived Playboy Club.
Cybill Shepherd is making her return to television in a role for which she’s already familiar.
The well-known actress will star opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in Lifetime’s upcoming drama, The Client List, a drama based on the network’s original movie of the same name. The news comes some five months after Lifetime announced it would order 10 hourlong episodes of the Sony-produced project, which starred both Hewitt and Shepherd. The drama centers on Hewitt, who will reprise her role as a housewife in a conservative Texas town. The character takes a job at a day spa to make ends meet, but quickly realizes that the parlor’s employees are actually prostitutes servicing prominent members of society. In an attempt to relieve her own financial hardships, she too turns to prostitution. Shepherd will play the part of Hewitt’s mother once again. The casting marks her first regular series roles since her mid-1990s hit sitcom, Cybill.
Actress-singer-songwriter Kathleen “Bird” York has joined the cast of Lifetime’s new series The Client List as a series regular.
Based on the network’s 2010 original movie, the Sony TV-produced drama stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Riley, a Texas housewife who, after being deserted by her husband, ends up running a massage parlor which serves as a front for a call girl service.
York will play Jolene, a masseuse at the parlor. York, repped by Bauman Redanty and Shaul, is best known for her role on The West Wing and her Oscar-nominated song from Crash.
Law & Order alumna Elisabeth Rohm has joined Lifetime’s new drama series The Client List in a recurring role.Based on the network’s 2010 original movie, the series stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as Riley, a Texas housewife who, after being deserted by her husband, ends up running a massage parlor which serves as a front for a call girl service.Rohm, repped by Buchwald/Fortitude and Luber/Roklin, will play Riley’s nemesis, Taylor, a rich and judgmental Texas socialite.
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