The “For All Mankind” spinoff “Star City” has made three new additions to its main cast, Variety has learned.
Adam Nagaitis (“The Terror,” “Chernobyl,” “The Responder”), Josef Davies (“Andor,” “The Hunt for Raoul Moat,” “Young Wallander”), and Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (“I, Jack Wright,” “Shardlake,” “Becoming Elizabeth”) have all joined the upcoming Apple TV+ alt-history drama.
The trio will appear alongside previously announced cast members Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Solly McLeod, Agnes O’Casey and Alice Englert.
The show was originally announced in April 2024. As previously reported, the series will tell the story the alternative history of the space race like “For All Mankind,” but this time from the Soviet Union perspective.
The official description for the show says it is “a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race – when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
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Nagaitis will star as Valya, described as “a highly respected cosmonaut within the Soviet Space program.” Davies will play Sergei, said to be “a young, brilliant engineer who works at Soviet Ground Control.” And Ashbourne Serkis will star as Tanya, “a cosmonaut’s wife that struggles within the confined world of Star City.”
Nagaitis is repped by Independent Talent Group. Davies is repped by Curtis Brown and Goodman Genow. Ashbourne Serkis is repped by Lou Coulson Associates.
“Star City” hails from “For All Mankind” creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi. Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive producers. Moore executive produces under his Tall Ship Productions banner along with Maril Davis. Steve Oster and Andrew Chambliss are also executive producers. Sony Pictures Television is the studio.