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EXCLUSIVE: Peacock‘s Emmy Award-winning series Poker Face will stage an Orange is the New Black mini-reunion as series star Natasha Lyonne will work alongside Adrienne C. Moore (Juror No. 2) and Taylor Schilling (Dead Edward) in Season 2. Moore and Schilling will guest star as will Geraldine Viswanathan (You’re Cordially Invited) with Rhea Perlman (Cheers), Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory) who will reprise the roles they played in Season 1.
They join the ever-growing list of guest stars which also includes Giancarlo Esposito, Katie Holmes, Gaby Hoffmann, Kumail Nanjiani, Sherry Cola, Kevin Corrigan, Ben Marshall, Kathrine Narducci, Cynthia Erivo, BJ Novak, Margo Martindale, John Mulaney, Ego Nwodim, Sam Richardson, Awkwafina, Corey Hawkins, Simon Rex, Method Man, Davionte “GaTa” Ganter, Haley Joel Osment, John Cho, Justin Theroux, Patti Harrison, Jason Ritter, Alia Shawkat, Carol Kane, David Krumholtz and Melanie Lynskey, among others.
From creator, writer, director and EP Rian Johnson, Poker Face is a mystery-of-the-week series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda where she encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve at every stop.
Season 1 premiered on Peacock in 2023 and was nominated for four Primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Lyonne. Peacock received its first Emmy win for Judith Light’s Outstanding Guest Actress Performance in a Comedy Series.
Showrunner Tony Tost serves as executive producer for Season 2 alongside Johnson, Lyonne, Ram Bergman, Nena Rodrigue, Adam Arkin, Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman. Poker Face is T-Street’s Johnson and Bergman’s first television series and is produced by MRC, along with Lyonne, under her production banner Animal Pictures. She will again direct in Season 2. The series is distributed internationally by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
Moore is repped by Frontline Management and Stewart Talent; Viswanathan is repped by Entertainment 360, WME, Mollison Keightley Management, and Sloane, Offer, Weber, & Dern; Perlman is repped by Innovative Artists; Helberg is repped by UTA, Range Media Partners and GGSSC; Schilling is repped by Untitled Entertainment and Gersh.