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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominee Janeane Garofalo (The Larry Sanders Show) is joining the fifth season of Showtime’s hit drama series Billions in a recurring role. The first seven episodes of Season 5 aired from May to June 2020 and the series will return to complete its fifth season later this year. In season five, Damian…

Actress, comedian and activist Janeane Garofalo is guest starring in the seventh and final season of Darren Star's hit comedy series Younger, which premieres on Paramount+ April 15. Garofalo first appears in Episode 5 and will appear in six episodes. She plays Cass DeKennessy, Dean of The Arts College of New York…

EXCLUSIVE: Three disabled men, one no-nonsense nurse and a trip to a brothel that caters to people with special needs. That pretty much sums up the SXSW film Come As You Are directed by Richard Wong and written by Erik Linthorst. Based on the 2011 Belgian film Hasta La Vista, the dramedy stars Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden…

Janeane Garofalo defended her longtime friend Louis C.K. during an intense podcast conversation with feminist magazine Bust. “If you don't want to listen to him, get up and leave the room,” Garofalo says at one point in the Poptarts podcast. “You are acting like Mussolini has walked into the room, and it is not. This…

Is there ever a time when heartbreak and loss go out of “style”? Marvin’s Room opened over Christmas in 1991 at Playwrights Horizons in New York (it was originally produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago), no one’s idea of a holiday show. The title character is a shadowy image, bedridden behind an upstage wall…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Richard Levine’s Submission starring Stanley Tucci, Addison Timlin, Kyra Sedgwick and Janeane Garofolo has its world premiere Monday in the Premieres section at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Based on Francine Prose’s bestselling novel Blue Angel, Tucci plays novelist-professor Ted Swenson…

Orphan Black star Kevin Hanchard has booked a supporting role opposite Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks in Sky Atlantic’s miniseries Tin Star. The crime drama takes place in a remote mountain town filled with migrant oil workers. At the heart of it is a police chief forced to confront a rising tide of crime, in so…

‘Criminal Minds’ Co-Star Kirsten Vangsness To Reprise Her Role On ‘Minds’ Spinoff? I hear Criminal Minds co-star Kirsten Vangsness’ deal is done and she will be a regular both on the main series and on its upcoming spinoff Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, playing FBI computer analyst Penelope Garcia. UPDATE: CBS just…

EXCLUSIVE: Quirky FBI computer technician Penelope Garcia may be pulling a double duty this coming season. I hear that CBS has approached Criminal Minds co-star Kirsten Vangsness to also appear on the upcoming Criminal Minds spinoff, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, on a regular or recurring basis. The network is…

Janeane Garofalo is in negotiations to join CBS’ Criminal Minds spinoff, while Andre Holland is set to co-star on the new NBC comedy series Friends with Benefits. Garofalo will play a new regular on the ABC Studios/CBS Studios-produced Criminal Minds spinoff, which was picked up for midseason. Also adding a new female…