“Elsbeth” has added Uzo Aduba, Tyne Daly and Christine Ebersole to the Season 4 cast. Ebersole will have a recurring role as Elsbeth’s mother in the CBS crime drama, while Aduba and Daly will each guest star.
\n\nThe fourth season of the spinoff based on “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” will premiere on CBS on Thursday, Oct. 8, with successive episodes each week.
\n\nPlaying the mother of the de facto detective at the center of the series, Ebersole’s character can charm anyone except her own daughter. The actress has won two Tony Awards and has appeared in “Is This Thing On?,” “Bob Hearts Abishola,” “Licorice Pizza” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
\n\nAduba will play Allegra Miller, a proud New Yorker fighting developers to keep her home and change her life forever. Aduba is best known for playing Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on “Orange Is the New Black,” a role for which she won two Emmy awards. She also won an Emmy for playing Shirley Chisholm in “Mrs. America” and has starred in “The Residence,” Netflix’s limited series “Painkiller,” Pixar’s “Lightyear” and more.
\n\nDaly will play Helen Adler, a dedicated birder who’s not afraid to ruffle feathers when…
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