Taylor Bloom is the latest to be cast in NBC drama pilot Protection, from creator and executive producer Josh Safran (Quantico, Gossip Girl).
In Protection, written by Safran, when a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents becomes the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Thornhill family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice — even if it means betraying their sworn code.
Bloom will play Russ Thornhill. A former Marine now working at the Department of Justice, Russ is idealistic, trusting and believes in the good of people.
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He joins previously announced Peter Krause as Mike Thornhill; Hope Davis as Joan, a federally appointed U.S. Marshal; Tommy O’Brien as Secret Service agent Micah Thornhill; and Kat Cunning as Clare Thornhill, an agent on her way to being a profiler.
Safran executive produces with Today with Jenna & Sheinelle‘s Jenna Bush Hager and her executive Ben Spector. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio. The project falls under the first-look deal Bush Hager has with Universal Studio Group for her Thousand Voices production company.
Bloom recurred as Stewart Bowers in Season 11 of American Horror Story, and most recently appeared on Netflix’s The Vince Staples Show. Onstage, he starred as Paul Simon in The Simon & Garfunkel Story at the National Theatre in Washington D.C. He’s repped by Buchwald and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.