Alan Cumming & Natalie Cassidy Join Cast Of ‘Boarders’ Season 2
deadline.comAlan Cumming and Natalie Cassidy have been cast in the second season of BBC and Tubi drama series Boarders. The Traitors host Cumming and EastEnders actress Cassidy will join a cast including leads Josh Tedeku, Jodie Campbell, Sekou Diaby, Myles Kamwendo and Aruna Jalloh in the coming-of-age series about five talented black inner-city teens who gain scholarships to the prestigious St.
Gilbert’s boarding school. Creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor stars in the series Cumming will play Alan, a man with high standards of the students at St.
Gilbert’s, and Cassidy will appear as Sharon Hail, a teacher at a rival school. Season two will begin with a new acting headmistress, Carol Watlington-Geese, who wants the scholarship students gone, just as they have begun to thrive.
For Cumming, the casting is among his first since he struck a production deal with NBCUniversal in June last year on the back of the success of Peacock reality series The Traitors, which he hosts.
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