EXCLUSIVE: Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad) has been cast as a series regular opposite Alexandra Daddario for the upcoming third season of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.
Brandt will play Katherine. Details of her role are being under wraps. The role reunites Breaking Bad alum Brandt with Mayfair Witches‘ exec producers Mark Johnson and Thomas Schnauz. Johnson and Schnauz both worked on Breaking Bad with Brandt, Johnson as executive producer and Schnauz as writer, director and co-exec producer.
Production on Season 3 is underway in Vancouver, Canada.
Set in Salem, Massachusetts, the third season will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new ‘spellbound’ families and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore. It follows the first two seasons, which were set in New Orleans, the most recent of them ending its run March 2.
In addition to Daddario and Brandt, season 3 cast includes Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa and Alyssa Jirrels.
Mayfair Witches Season 3 is executive produced by Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe for AMC, co-showrunners Esta Spalding and Schnauz, Michelle Ashford and Tom Williams. AMC Studios is the studio.
Brandt is best known for her portrayal of Marie on the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning series Breaking Bad, a role which she reprised in the finale episode of AMC’s spinoff Better Call Saul. Her other television credits include CBS comedy Life in Pieces and Hulu’s Saint X, the Michael J. Fox Show on NBC and AMC’s dystopian love anthology series Soulmates, for which she was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries. She also is developing several scripts and last year produced and starred in The Bad Orphan for Lifetime. Brandt can most recently be seen starring in coming-of-age dramedy Adult Children. She’s repped by TalentWorks, Patty Woo Management and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka.
