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Katie Holmes seems to be looking to expanding her acting
career. She made her debut on TV, she’s done big Hollywood
movies, she will step on a Broadway stage for the first time this fall and now
we learn she is also ready to return to television.
ABC’s legal drama “Eli Stone” will have one certain special
guest in October: former “Dawson’s
Creek” star Katie Holmes, reports the Associated Press.
Katie Holmes’ return to the small screen will reunite her
with Greg Berlanti, executive producer on “Dawson’s Creek” and co-creator and executive
producer of “Eli Stone.”
Katie Holmes is reportedly scheduled to film the episode in
July. It will air on Oct. 21. Not only will she guest star, portraying a
non-profit attorney whose life crosses paths with that of Eli Stone, but she
will also display her singing and dancing skills.
It will be the second episode of the season.
“Eli Stone” stars Jonny Lee Miller as the title character, a
successful attorney whose life is completely changed once he discovers he has a
brain aneurysm that is causing him hallucinations.
British singer George Michael was a guest star during the
show’s first season and appeared to Eli Stone as an angel. Each episode was
titled after one of his songs. Berlanti said it is likely for George Michael to
return in the second season, possibly on a December episode.
Other members of the cast are Victor Garber, Natasha
Henstridge and Loretta Devine.
As to Katie Holmes’ participation, it was Berlanti’s idea to
invite her, as a way of attracting more viewers in this second year of the show.
“I went and I begged her and she said, ‘I’d love to,’” Berlanti told a meeting
of the Television Critics Association. He called Holmes “an incredible actress
and a good friend.”
Katie Holmes is also preparing for her Broadway debut on
Sept. 18, in a revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.” The cast includes John
Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson. Simon McBurney, artistic director of
the British theater company Complicite, will direct the revival. “All My Sons”
was last performed on Broadway in 1987.
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