Uzo Adubahas been tapped as the lead ofNetflixsShondalandmurder-mystery dramaThe Residence, from writer Paul William Davies.
Davies, who serves as showrunner, executive produces with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers.
Its premise: 132 rooms.
Uzo AdubaRobert Maxwell
One wildly eccentric detective (Aduba).
One disastrous State Dinner.
Aduba will play Cordelia Cupp, a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department.
Cupp is an astute observer of human behavior, with a distinctive and to some, unsettling conversational style.
America.She most recently starred in HBOs reimagining ofIn Treatmentand voiced Alisha Hawthorne in Angus MacLanes featureLightyear.
She is repped by UTA, Entertainment 360 and Schreck Rose Dapello.
