Harry Hamlin Joins AMC’s ‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches’ As Series Regular, Boards Paramount & Endeavor’s Tom Brady Pic ‘80 For Brady’

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EXCLUSIVE: Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) has signed on for a series regular role in the AMC series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, and for a supporting role in the film 80 for Brady for Paramount Pictures and Endeavor Content.The former series written and executive produced by showrunner Esta Spalding (Masters of Sex, On Becoming a God in Central Florida) and Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex, The Pacific) is based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy.

It focuses on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.Hamlin will play Cortland Mayfair, current reigning patriarch of the Mayfair clan with a voracious appetite for more money, more power and more life, in his first series regular role in over two decades.

The project brings him back to the network where he previously garnered an Emmy nomination for his turn as Cutler, Gleason, and Chaough partner Jim Cutler on Mad Men.Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is the second series in an expanding Anne Rice universe at AMC, following Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire.

It’s slated to debut on both AMC and AMC+ later this year. The series is also exec produced by Mark Johnson through his Gran Via Productions.“From Mad Men to Mayfair, we’re delighted to have Harry back at AMC joining a cast that will bring to life the captivating world and cast of characters that Esta, Michelle and Mark have beautifully adapted for our second series in the Anne Rice universe,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. “Harry is an immensely talented and seasoned pro and we can’t