Former “House” star Jennifer Morrison has scored the lead role of Anna on ABC’s new fairy tale themed pilot “Once Upon a Time.” The 31-year-old actress joins a cast that includes Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming, Jamie Dornan as a Sheriff of Storybrooke, Jared Gilmore as Anna’s son Henry, and Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen.
Created by “LOST” executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the show follows Anna as she’s beckoned to the small town of Storybrooke by her biological 10-year-old son Henry to break the spell the Evil Queen has cast upon them.
Morrison, who starred as Dr. Allison Cameron for six seasons on the Fox medical drama “House,” made her horror film debut in the 1999 supernatural frightener Stir of Echoes. Her first lead role came a year later in the slasher Urban Legends: Final Cuts. She was most recently seen as Captain James T. Kirk’s wife on J.J. Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek reboot.
Former “Smallville” star Kristin Kreuk has booked a role on NBC’s new supernatural cop-show pilot “17th Precinct.” Produced by “Battlestar Galactica” showrunner Ron Moore, the series follows a group of police officers in the fictional town of Exelsior as they fight and solve crimes rooted in magic and the paranormal.
Kreuk will play Susan Longstreet, wife to a crime scene expert played by Jaime Bamber (“BSG”). The beautiful 28-year-old Canuck joins a cast that includes hottie Tricia Helfer (“BSG”), Eamonn Walker (Unbreakable), Stockard Channing (Practical Magic), and James Callis (“FlashForward”).
Kreuk, best known for playing Clark Kent’s first crush Lana Lang on The CW’s long-running Superman series “Smallville,” will next be seen opposite Rachael Leigh Cook and Adelaide Clemens in Japanese director Iwai Shunji’s American film debut Vampire.
If you’re tired of the Twilight Saga’s vampire-werewolf-human love triangle and would rather swallow some shotgun candy than watch MTV’s upcoming “Teen Wolf “ soap or director Jonathan Levine’s recently greenlit zombie-romancer Warm Bodies, you’re gonna enjoy the fuck out of Funny or Die’s “Mummy” skit.
Lizzy Caplan (Cloverfield), Adam Scott (Piranha 3-D), and Martin Starr (“Freaks and Geeks”) do a hilarious job of spoofing horror’s ongoing trend of hooking up humans with supernatural lovers in this heartbreaking tale of an adulterous and decomposing mummy’s forbidden love for a “Fleshie.”
