British actress Natalie Dormer has joined the cast of the ABC mystery pilot “Poe.” The 29-year-old former “Tudors” star will play Celeste, the owner of the newspaper that employs an eccentric writer by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

Set in 1840’s Boston, the series presents the iconic horror author as a young moonlighting detective with a knack for solving crimes of a macabre nature. Aussie actor Chris Egan (Resident Evil: Extinction) has been tapped to play the famed novelist.

Alex Graves (”Journeyman”) will direct the Warner Bros. produced pilot from a script by TV writer Christopher Hollier. Cameras are set to roll in Toronto on March 14.

Dormer, best known for her portrayal of doomed queen Anne Boleyn on Showtime’s “The Tudors,” will also be seen this summer in Marvel Studios eagerly anticipated Captain America: The First Avenger, opening July 22.