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by Luis Reyes
Showtime’s hit supernatural horror series Penny Dreadful, closing its series run after three seasons (2014-2017), will return with a new focus on Depression Era 30’s Los Angeles through the prism of a Mexican-American family in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
While the new series shifts away from its previous setting, it will have the involvement of series creator/ writer/ producer John Logan and executive producer/writer John Aguilar who has written for Showtime’s Kidding and I’m Dying up Here.
Daniel Zovatto, of Costa Rican ancestry will star as Detective Tiago Vega, the LAPD’s first Mexican-American detective. Tago’s reality will be rife with racism, childhood trauma and faith issues that challenge the inexplicable supernatural occurrences in the storylines.
Zovatto’s credits include the horror features Don’t Breathe and It Follows and the Greta Gerwig comedy Lady Bird. His television credits include HBO’s Here and Now and AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead.
Joining Zovatto will be Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Adriana Barraza, who will play Maria Vega, the powerful matriarch of the Vega family who will go to any length to protect her children from the dangerous world of 1938 social politics as well as from the chilling supernatural forces invading their lives. Barraza won a Best Supporting Actress nomination in 2006 for her role in Alejandro Inarritu’s Babel. She was most recently seen in FX’s The Strain. Upcoming for the Mexican actress are roles in the feature films Rambo 5 and Dora the Explorer.
Jessica Garza will play Josefina, the youngest of the Vega family (Tiago’s daughter). She plays the quiet and overlooked sister that possesses a powerful spirit waiting to be unleashed. Garza was recently seen on USA Networks The Purge and History channels Six. She has also guest stared on Modern Family and NCIS. Jonathan Nieves plays Mateo Vega, Tiago’s younger brother, who looks up to his older sibling and carries his strength of character but is vulnerable to people and events around him. Nieves’ credits include New Amsterdam, Better Call Saul and Chicago Fire.
Also in the cast are Nathan Lane (Birdcage) and Natalie Dormer(Game of Thrones, The Tudors).