EXCLUSIVE: Alberto Guerra (Griselda, The Accident) has joined Peacock‘s upcoming South Florida-set crime drama M.I.A. as a series regular along with Edward James Olmos (American Me, Stand and Deliver), Billy Burke (Maid, Twilight) and Sônia Braga (The First Omen, Shotgun Wedding) in guest-star roles.
They join previously announced series regulars Shannon Gisela, Brittany Adebumola, Dylan Jackson, Maurice Compte, Danay Garcia, Cary Elwes, Gerardo Celasco and Marta Milans.
In M.I.A., from Ozark creator Bill Dubuque, running drugs is a family affair for Etta Tiger Jonze (Gisela). But when the family business is threatened, she is thrust into a life she never expected, forcing her to use her wits to survive as she navigates Miami’s criminal underground.
MIA is the airport code for Miami. The SoFla area consists of Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties.
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The series comes from studio MRC (Poker Face), with Karen Campbell (Outlander, Dexter) serving as executive producer and showrunner. Alethea Jones (High Potential, Mrs. Davis) will direct and executive produce. Dubuque will write Episode 101 and executive produce alongside Campbell and Jones, who will also direct.
M.I.A. is the latest series to explore SoFla’s seedy underbelly including Chris Brancato’s Hotel Cocaine —based on Compte’s father’s life — for MGM+ and two Netflix series: the Sofia Vergara-led Griselda and the early seasons of Narcos focused on Pablo Escobar, both with executive producers including Eric Newman, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard. Narcos was co-created by Brancato. Showtime’s original Dexter series was also famously set in Miami, as is its Paramount+ with Showtime prequel spinoff series Dexter: Original Sin.
Guerra is repped by UTA, Artists First, and Coloürs. Olmos is repped by Untitled Entertainment and CAA. Burke is repped by Ellen Meyer Management and Gersh. Braga is repped by Bond Artist Management, Untitled Entertainment, and Schreck Rose Dapello.