Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black) will play an ex-con in The Trustee, Deadline reports.
Cox has joined the cast of the ABC comedy pilot in the role of Amanda Jones, the titular trustee, an inmate who’s spending the end of her prison sentence performing menial tasks around a police precinct. Cox will star opposite Meaghan Rath (Being Human), who will play Eliza, the ambitious young detective who finds herself relying on Amanda for help.
Cox’s CBS midseason legal drama Doubt recently was pulled off the air after only two episodes.
