Anna Wood & Oluniké Adeliyi Among Four Cast In NBC Drama Pilot ‘Unbroken’ From Shaun Cassidy
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Anna Wood (The Code) is set as a lead along with Oluniké Adeliyi (The Porter), Amanda Payton (United States of Al) and Delon de Metz (Zoo) in NBC’s Unbroken (wt) drama pilot from New Amsterdam executive producer Shaun Cassidy and Universal Television.
Additionally, Bronwen Hughes (Resident Evil) has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot.Written and executive produced by Cassidy, in Unbroken, three dynastic ranch families on the central coast of California make love and war in a passionate struggle to survive, ultimately setting the stage for a group of fiercely determined young women to win big for all at the National Championship of Rodeo.Wood will play Joss, a fearless survivor and self-sufficient woman who lives a nomadic life with her young daughter.2022 NBC Pilots & Series OrdersAdeliyi is Ndidi “Dee” Stanton, a first-generation Nigerian-American who worked in the hospitality industry before meeting her future husband, a rodeo cowboy in her hometown of Omaha.
She then travels with him to the California coast to raise a family.Payton portrays Ella, the vibrant and creative winemaker at the ranch.
Ella is the glue who has worked diligently to hold her family together since her mother’s passing.De Metz plays Cole, the young man who runs the trail-riding operation at the ranch and is still searching for his true place in the family.Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.Wood most recently co-starred in the CBS military drama The Code with Dana Delaney and Phillipa Soo, as well as supernatural thriller Falling Water for USA Network.
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