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Vixen star Megalyn Echikunwoke is set as one of the two co-leads opposite Brittany Snow in Fox's drama pilot based on the Endemol Shine Australia series Sisters. The untitled project (fka Sisters) hails from Annie Weisman, Jason Katims, as well as the original series' co-creator Imogen Banks, Universal TV and Endemol…

Hugh Dancy will join the previously announced Stockard Channing in this fall’s Roundabout Theatre production of Apologia, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s West End hit. Also newly cast in the play is Megalyn Echikunwoke (of the upcoming feature Night School). Performances of the play begin Thursday, September 27, with an…

Denis O'Hare, John Early, Max Casella and Megalyn Echikunwoke have been set to round out the cast of Late Night, the comedy starring Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson. The film written by Kaling and being directed by Nisha Ganatra centers on a late-night talk show host (Thompson) who is at risk of losing her long-running…

Megalyn Echikunwoke (Damien) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect) are set to co-star opposite Jay Pharoah in Showtime’s half-hour comedy pilot White Famous, from Jamie Foxx and Californication creator Tom Kapinos. White Famous centers on a talented, young African-American comedian (Pharoah) whose star is rising…

Damien alumna Megalyn Echikunwoke is set to star in the film formerly known as Ain’t No Half Steppin’. Broad Green Pictures said today that its sorority comedy from Drumline helmer Charles Stone has been retitled Step Sisters and also will feature Eden Sher, Lyndon Smith, Gage Golightly, Nia Jervier, Alessandra…

Team Arrow is expanding. DC Comics character Vixen (aka Mari Mable) will be joining the The CW’s Arrow with Megalyn Echikunwoke in the role. Echikunwoke voiced the character in CW Seed’s animated web series of the same name and now will appear as the character in Arrow. Vixen, an African orphan who inherited the…

Megalyn Echikunwoke has joined the cast of Damien, Lifetime's straight-to-series drama follow-up to 20th Century Fox's classic horror film The Omen. Produced by Fox TV Studios, the six-episode Damien follows the adult life of Damien Thorn (James), the mysterious child from the 1976 film who has grown up, seemingly…

Paul Scheer has landed a recurring role on ABC’s new comedy series Fresh Off The Boat as Mitch, the high-energy, friendly guy who is hired by Mr. Huang to be the host at the steakhouse restaurant.  Mitch is a tad shady, full of questionable advice for the Huang boys, and very much distrusted by Mrs. Huang. Scheer…