Bill Pullman Joins BBC's TORCHWOOD

According to Deadline.com, stage and screen star Bill Pullman will join BBC's TORCHWOOD for it's fourth season.  Pullman will star as Oswald Jones, 'a dangerously clever convicted murderer who escapes his lifelong prison sentence on a technicality and quickly becomes a media sensation.'

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T. Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies' 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who.

Pullman made his film debut as the supporting role of Earl Mott in the 1986 film Ruthless People. He has since gone on to star in other films, including Spaceballs, Independence Day, Lost Highway, Casper and Scary Movie 4.

From February 2001 until February 2002, Pullman starred with Mercedes Ruehl, in Edward Albee's play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? on Broadway. The play won several awards: 2002 Tony Award for Best Play; 2002 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play; 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Pullman starred in Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry, at Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre in New York. Pullman received a second Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play for Peter and Jerry in 2008.

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