The Peacock limited series The Good Daughter has cast Rose Byrne (Physical, Bridesmaids) and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus, The Perfect Couple) as the lead characters, sisters Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, respectively.
Fahy is taking on the role Jessica Biel was originally set to play following Biel’s exit from the project as star and executive producer, which Deadline revealed exclusively in September.
Based on Karin Slaughter’s bestselling novel of the same name, The Good Daughter was picked up straight-to-series by the NBCU streaming service in March, with Slaughter writing all episodes and executive producing the project from Fifth Season and Bruna Papandrea‘s Made Up Stories.
In The Good Daughter, sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, she and Samantha wonder if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all.
Karin Slaughter will write all episodes and executive produce. Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Casey Haver will executive produce for Made Up Stories (The Undoing, Pieces of Her). Emmy Award-nominated director Steph Green (Watchmen, The Americans) will direct and executive produce all episodes. The series comes from Fifth Season and is based on Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling novel The Good Daughter.
Byrne is repped by CAA and RGM Artists. Fahy is repped by WME, Anonymous Content, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Slaughter is repped by WME, Victoria Sanders and Associates and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
