Ted Lasso get a new cast member: Jodi Balfour will play a 'charming venture capitalist'
dailymail.co.ukJodi Balfour has joined the cast of Apple TV+'s hit series Ted Lasso.According to Deadline, the 34-year-old actress will play a 'charming venture capitalist in the upcoming third season of the Emmy Award-winning show.The South Africa native is the first new cast member to be announced and will join series regulars Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Juno Temple, Jeremy Swift, Brett Goldstein, Phil Dunster and Nick Mohammed, who are all returning to reprise their roles.
Exciting: Jodi Balfour has joined the cast of Apple TV+'s hit series Ted Lasso. Seen in March 2022In the sports comedy-drama, Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, a college football coach from Kansas City who is unexpectedly hired to coach the fictional Premier League soccer team AFC Richmond, despite the fact he has no prior experience coaching soccer.
Sudeikis originally played Lasso in a series of 2013 television commercials for NBC Sports to promote their coverage of the Premier League.In the commercials, Lasso was the new head coach of the real-life Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
The latest: According to Deadline, the 34-year-old actress will play a 'charming venture capitalist in the upcoming third season of the Emmy Award-winning show Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Joe Kelly and Brendan Hunt developed the television series based on the character with Sudeikis reprising the role of Lasso.Apple TV+ ordered 10 episodes of the series in 2019 and it premiered in August 2020.The show was met with rave reviews from critics and was nominated for 20 Emmy Awards, setting a record for the most nominations that a freshman series had ever received.
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