Remove From Watch Later Add To Watch Later. Nicole Kidman, another of the show's executive producers, will appear as well in the role of Kaitlyn Meade, the CIA’s senior supervisor.īassem Youssef has been confirmed in a guest starring role as "a rags-to-riches billionaire businessman with ties to terrorism, building his own fortune by legitimate means before profiteering off the wars that destroy the Middle East he’s spent decades helping to rebuild," Variety reports. A successful entrepreneur is dropped into a remote community with little resources and has 90 days to create a successful company. Morgan Freeman has signed on to play the show's United States Secretary of State, Edwin Mullins. Dave Annable will play the husband of Saldaña's Joe, and Thad Luckinbill will appear in a recurring role as an old friend of Joe’s. Saldaña will reportedly play Joe, the head of the program, with LaMonica Garrett (who Sheridan fans may know from 1883), Jill Wagner, Austin Hébert, Jonah Wharton, and James Jordan as members of the team. In addition to Saldaña, who will also serve as one of the show's executive producers, the show is set to star Laysla De Oliveira, who will play a Marine recruited to join the CIA’s undercover Lioness Engagement Team in order to bring down terrorist groups from the inside. SIGN UP FOR PARAMOUNT+ The cast of Lioness is stacked. Like Sheridan's other Paramount+ shows, it's expected that new episodes will drop weekly. Special Ops: Lioness will premiere on Paramount+ on Sunday, July 23, 2023. I went through Yellowstone bingeing, and then 1883 and then 1923. Just, 'I wanted Morgan Freeman to be the one that was chastising'-think it was chastising-'the whole program of the Lioness.'" Freeman, who was previously confirmed to be playing United States Secretary of State Edwin Mullins on the show, told the publication that he and Sheridan "Just had a Zoom interview and he told me what he was doing and why he wanted me involved. In a recent interview with Parade, Freeman gave the first hints of what we can expect to see from him in the series. The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade (Kidman) and Donald Westfield (Kelly), enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz (De Oliveira) to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA's efforts to thwart the next 9/11." Per the official synopsis, " Special Ops: Lioness, inspired by an actual US Military program, follows the life of Joe (Saldaña) while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. Inspired by a real-life undercover program of the CIA, Special Ops: Lioness promises to follow a team of operatives attempting to bring down a terrorist organization within, using a female operative to infiltrate the organization by getting close tot he wives and daughters of terrorists. courtesy Paramount+ What is Special Ops: Lioness about?
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