EXCLUSIVE: This Is Us alum Michael Angarano has been cast in a key recurring role on Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Apple TV+’s series starring Elle Fanning, Michael Pfeiffer and Nick Offerman and executive produced by Fanning, Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman.
In Margo’s Got Money Troubles, based on Rufi Thorpe’s novel, Fanning stars as Margo Millet, the child of a Hooters waitress (Pfeiffer) and an ex-pro wrestler (Offerman), who becomes pregnant after a brief affair with an English professor, Mark (Angarano), at the local junior college she attends. Now, at 20, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. When her estranged father Jinx shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Margo starts an OnlyFans as an experiment and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Angarano also joins previously cast Thaddea Graham as Margo’s roommate, Marcia Gay Harden as Mark’s mom and Kidman as Margo and Mark’s mediator.
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The eight-part series hails from David E. Kelley and A24. Kelley serves as writer and showrunner. He and Matthew Tinker executive produce for David E. Kelley Productions alongside Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward for Lewellen Pictures; and Kidman and Per Saari of Blossom Films. Pfeiffer, author Thorpe and Eva Anderson also executive produce.
Angarano can next be seen in Sacramento, a film that he co-wrote, directed and stars in opposite Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, and Maya Erskine, which opens April 11, and in the Peacock limited series Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. His recent credits also include Oppenheimer and Peacock’s Laid. He is repped by Anonymous Content, UTA and JTWAMM.