Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Harry Potter) has joined the cast of NBC’s untitled Tracy Morgan comedy pilot from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and writer Sam Means.
Written by Carlock and Means, the new comedy stars Morgan as a disgraced former football player on a mission to rehabilitate his image.
Radcliffe will play Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who moves into Reggie’s (Morgan) mansion to film an immersive documentary about the former star running back.
Carlock, Means and Morgan executive produce with Fey, Eric Gurian and David Miner. Rhys Thomas is the director and executive producer of the pilot. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Fey, Carlock and Means are under overall deals, produces with Little Stranger, Bevel Gears and 3 Arts.
Radcliffe is best known for playing the titular wizard in the Harry Potter franchise films from Warner Bros. He recently made a splash starring in the Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, winning a Critics Choice Award and Best Actor Emmy and BAFTA Award nominations. Previously, he starred in the fourth Miracle Workers: End Times series, the final season of TBS’s acclaimed comedy series. Radcliffe also served as executive producer throughout.
Other notable screen credits include Paramount’s The Lost City; Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, Academy Award-winning directors the Daniels’ Swiss Army Man, and true-life prison break feature Escape From Pretoria.
He just completed a sold-out and record-breaking run of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, a role for which he received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as well as a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album. Additionally, he exec produced the Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated HBO feature documentary David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, the true story of his close friend and former stunt double who was tragically injured on the set of Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows: Part 1.
He is repped by Artist Rights Group, Avalon Management and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson.
