EXCLUSIVE: Leland Orser is set as a series regular in Apple TV‘s Safe Houses, an eight-episode spy thriller from Homeland executive producer Gideon Raff, inspired by Dan Fesperman’s novel. Jennifer Connelly and Ana de Armas are in final negotiations to star and executive produce.
Safe Houses is a fast-paced international espionage thriller set in the aftermath of the killing of a high-ranking CIA officer in Madrid. The series follows Sofia Jiménez, a fugitive agent accused of the crime, and Ambassador Elizabeth Winthrop, his widow, as they each investigate the murder from opposite sides, unraveling a vast conspiracy that could upend the balance of global power.
Orser is believed to playing Senator Douglas Patterson, Winthrop’s older brother.
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Safe Houses is a co-production between global independent studio Wiip and Apple Studios. Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders) is set to direct the opening block of the series, with Raff directing several additional episodes and serving as showrunner and executive producer alongside Alexandra Milchan. Paul Lee and David Flynn executive produce for Wiip. Adam Berkowitz serves as co-executive producer.
Known for his work on Epix’s Berlin Station, Showtime’s Ray Donovan and opposite LIam Neeson on the Taken films, Orser’s additional credits include Saving Private Ryan, The Bone Collector, Alien Resurrection, Very Bad Things, The Good German, Escape from L.A., ER and Se7en. Most recently Orser lent his voice to Davis Guggenheim’s documentary Deaf President Now for Apple and was last seen in David O Russell’s film Amsterdam alongside Robert DeNiro, Christian Bale and Margot Robbie. Orser is repped by Gersh.