Shahi Starring As Nancy Drew, The drama, based on the admired book series, finds Nancy (Shahi) now in her 30s and confined as a detective for the NYPD area she investigates and solves crimes application her astonishing empiric skills, all while abyssal the complexities of activity in a avant-garde world.
Like in the books and antecedent big- and small-screen adaptations, Nancy grew up analytic crimes with her two adolescence girlfriends, Bess and George. CBS’ yield finds Nancy abutting the NYPD afterwards college, area she was alleged the youngest changeable NYPD Homicide Detective. She was a brilliant — until she arrested the amiss guy, was about alleged on it and abdicate the force. Drew will acquisition her disturbing to acquisition a way aback to the assured appearance she’s best accepted as to audiences worldwide.
CBS Entertainment admiral Glenn Geller told THR in January that the network’s Nancy would be assorted — and Shahi fits that bill. The Persian actress, who played a adjudicator advocate on USA Network’s Fairly Legal and played a detective in NBC’s Life, was built-in and aloft in Texas. Her ancestor is from Iran, while her affectionate grandfathering is Persian and her affectionate grandmother is from Spain. Shahi’s credits cover Showtime’s Ray Donovan, NBC’s Chicago Fire and CBS’ Person of Interest, area she starred as a government assassin. The casting keeps Shahi in the CBS bend as the actress, who in 2014 took maternology leave from Person of Interest, is assertive to acknowledgment to the ball for its acceptable fifth and final season. (A acknowledgment date for the alternation has not yet been determined.) She’s repped by CAA, McKeon-Myones Management and Meyer & Downs.
Shahi becomes the latest extra to portray Nancy, who was a lot of afresh played by Emma Roberts in the 2007 affection film. The appearance aboriginal appeared in books in 1930 and was originally created by Edward Stratemeyer. The admired books accept been ghostwritten by a alternation of authors and appear beneath the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The appearance has acquired in the decades since, admitting the aboriginal alternation — Nancy Drew Mystery Stories — ran from 1930 to 2003. The authorization has included aftereffect alternation including Nancy Drew Files and collaborations with the Hardy Boys.
The appearance spawned a TV alternation — The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries — that ran for three seasons on ABC in the backward 1970s starring Pamela Sue Martin (and after Janet Louise Johnson) as able-bodied as Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson. The alternation was an album of sorts, with some episodes absorption alone on Nancy Drew, and others on abecedarian sleuth ancestors Frank and Joe Hardy. The alternation was produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and broadcast by Universal Television. (Larson anesthetized abroad in November.)
CBS’ Drew is accounting and exec produced by bedmate and wife duo Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (Grey’s Anatomy); Dan Jinks aswell exec produces the CBS Television Studios drama. ER’s Anthony Edwards co-stars as Nancy’s father, while Graceland’s Vanessa Ferlito is set as George. Felix Solis plays a adolescent detective.
Keep up with all the latest pickups, castings and closing alternation orders with THR's accessible adviser to pilot season.
Like in the books and antecedent big- and small-screen adaptations, Nancy grew up analytic crimes with her two adolescence girlfriends, Bess and George. CBS’ yield finds Nancy abutting the NYPD afterwards college, area she was alleged the youngest changeable NYPD Homicide Detective. She was a brilliant — until she arrested the amiss guy, was about alleged on it and abdicate the force. Drew will acquisition her disturbing to acquisition a way aback to the assured appearance she’s best accepted as to audiences worldwide.
CBS Entertainment admiral Glenn Geller told THR in January that the network’s Nancy would be assorted — and Shahi fits that bill. The Persian actress, who played a adjudicator advocate on USA Network’s Fairly Legal and played a detective in NBC’s Life, was built-in and aloft in Texas. Her ancestor is from Iran, while her affectionate grandfathering is Persian and her affectionate grandmother is from Spain. Shahi’s credits cover Showtime’s Ray Donovan, NBC’s Chicago Fire and CBS’ Person of Interest, area she starred as a government assassin. The casting keeps Shahi in the CBS bend as the actress, who in 2014 took maternology leave from Person of Interest, is assertive to acknowledgment to the ball for its acceptable fifth and final season. (A acknowledgment date for the alternation has not yet been determined.) She’s repped by CAA, McKeon-Myones Management and Meyer & Downs.
Shahi becomes the latest extra to portray Nancy, who was a lot of afresh played by Emma Roberts in the 2007 affection film. The appearance aboriginal appeared in books in 1930 and was originally created by Edward Stratemeyer. The admired books accept been ghostwritten by a alternation of authors and appear beneath the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The appearance has acquired in the decades since, admitting the aboriginal alternation — Nancy Drew Mystery Stories — ran from 1930 to 2003. The authorization has included aftereffect alternation including Nancy Drew Files and collaborations with the Hardy Boys.
The appearance spawned a TV alternation — The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries — that ran for three seasons on ABC in the backward 1970s starring Pamela Sue Martin (and after Janet Louise Johnson) as able-bodied as Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson. The alternation was an album of sorts, with some episodes absorption alone on Nancy Drew, and others on abecedarian sleuth ancestors Frank and Joe Hardy. The alternation was produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and broadcast by Universal Television. (Larson anesthetized abroad in November.)
CBS’ Drew is accounting and exec produced by bedmate and wife duo Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (Grey’s Anatomy); Dan Jinks aswell exec produces the CBS Television Studios drama. ER’s Anthony Edwards co-stars as Nancy’s father, while Graceland’s Vanessa Ferlito is set as George. Felix Solis plays a adolescent detective.
Keep up with all the latest pickups, castings and closing alternation orders with THR's accessible adviser to pilot season.
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