Carrie Coon To Star In HBO's Julian Fellowes Series THE GILDED AGE Replacing Amanda Peet

Carrie Coon ("The Leftovers") has been cast as one of the main leads in the upcoming HBO period drama "The Gilded Age". Originally set up at NBC, the nine-episode series is developed by "Downton Abbey" creator Julian Fellowes, and it will be a co-production between HBO and Universal TV.

The series is set in 1880s America, during a period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost and the rise of disparity between old money and new. The protagonist is young Marian Brook, an orphaned daughter of a Southern general who moves in with her aunts in New York City and finds herself thrust into high society, becoming enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old-money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George and Bertha Russell.

Coon replaces Amanda Peet as Bertha Russell, a woman determined to use her money and position to break into a society that resists change at every turn. Peet had to pull out over scheduling issues. The cast also includes Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson, Simon Jones, Harry Richardson, Thomas Cocquerel and Jack Gilpin.

Coon can next be seen in IFC's drama "The Nest" opposite Jude Law, and Sony's highly anticipated "Ghostbusters: Afterlife".

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