Hugh Grant joins HBO’s ‘The Palace’ limited series
He joins a cast led by Kate Winslet in the drama.
Hugh Grant is returning to HBO.
The BAFTA-winning actor has been hired in the limited series The Palace, starring Kate Winslet, on the premium cabler. Will Tracy, the creator and executive producer of Succession, is behind the series.
Grant joins Matthias Schoenaerts and Andrea Riseborough in the cast. The Palace, which was ordered to series in July, follows a year within an authoritarian regime as it unravels. Grant will appear in the drama as a guest star, but additional details are being withheld for the time being.
Grant returns to HBO after receiving an Emmy nomination for the limited series The Undoing in 2020. He’ll also work with director Stephen Frears again on The Palace; the two previously collaborated on A Very English Scandal (which netted both men Emmy nominations) and Florence Foster Jenkins.
Grant appears in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which will be available on Netflix on December 23 following its limited (but unexpectedly profitable) theatre run. He’ll next be seen in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which is set to be released in March 2023, and he co-stars in Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story with Jerry Seinfeld. CAA and The Lede Company represent him.
Tracy will executive produce The Palace alongside Frears, Winslet, Frank Rich, and Tracey Seaward. Along with Tracy, other writers include Seth Reiss, Juli Weiner, Jen Spyra, Gary Shteyngart, and Sarah DeLappe.