Former Designated Survivor star Kiefer Sutherland is going to the Oval Office. He’s been tapped to play President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Showtime’s impending upcoming anthology series The First Lady (working title), featuring Viola Davis — who additionally executive produces — Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Cathy Schulman fills in as showrunner. Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce.
Made by Aaron Cooley and produced by Lionsgate TV and Showtime, The First Lady is an impactful reexamining of American administration, told through the lens of the women at the core of the White House. Season 1 focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt (Anderson), Betty Ford (Pfeiffer) and Michelle Obama (Davis).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was the 32nd president of the United States, from 1933 until his death in 1945, and the solitary U.S. president to serve for multiple terms. He wedded his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt in 1905, and together the couple turned into the focal figures in world occasions during the principal half of the 20th century, in the end fabricating the New Deal Coalition that defined modern liberalism in the U.S.
In 1921, Roosevelt contracted polio, and his legs turned out to be forever paralyzed. Unstoppable even from that point onward, FDR is adored as one of the country’s most greatest presidents.
Series likewise stars Aaron Eckhart as President Gerald Ford, O-T Fagbenle as President Barack Obama and Dakota Fanning as Susan Elizabeth Ford.
Created by Showtime and Lionsgate Television, The First Lady is executive produced by Schulman, Davis, Julius Tennon, Andrew Wang, Bier, Jeff Gaspin and Brad Kaplan. Cooley will compose a few of the episodes and executive produce.
Previous 24 and Designated Survivor star Sutherland is next set to star and executive produce the forthcoming untitled espionage drama from Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for Paramount+/CBS Studios. He’s repped by CAA, Management 360 and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, Feldman and Clark.