Busy Philipps (Girls5Eva) has joined the series regular cast of the upcoming CBS legal drama Cupertino, from creators Robert and Michelle King.
Philipps will play Natalia, the beautiful and delightfully blunt first wife of an AI Billionaire, who divorced her when she turned forty. Now Natalia wants revenge and agrees to finance Michael (Mike Colter) and Olivia’s (Rachel Keller) start-up law firm in order to go after his and other AI businesses.
Cupertino is a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley that follows Michael, a lawyer who is being cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with Olivia, another recently fired attorney, to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley.
The cast also includes Renée Elise Goldsberry as Renee, a brilliant opposing attorney who has a professional and romantic history with Michael; Ella Stiller and Nik Dodani as Vik, a coder with a comic sensibility who seeks out Michael and Olivia for representation in a last-ditch effort when his own tech-employer turns against him.
The Kings will write and serve as executive producers on Cupertino under their banner, King Size Productions, with Robert King set to direct the premiere episode. Liz Glotzer also serves as executive producer.
Philipps is currently the host of the new QVC series Busy This Week, which she executive produces with Caissie St. Onge and Michael Gleason. She is best known for her TV roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson’s Creek, and six seasons starring opposite Courteney Cox on Cougar Town. She can most recently be seen on Netflix’s critically acclaimed comedy Girls5Eva, executive produced by Tina Fey. Recent film credits include Mean Girls: The Musical, I Feel Pretty, The Gift, and the upcoming horror-comedy Horrified. She is repped by Range Media Partners and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
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