Katherine Helmond Set to Guest Star on TRUE BLOOD

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Broadway veteran Katherine Helmond is set to guest star on HBO's 'True Blood' in the fourth season. Helmond will play Caroline Bellefleur in two episodes.

Helmond earned a Tony nomination for her performance on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown in 1973.  Helmond gained fame as Jessica Tate, the ditzy matriarch on Soap. She was a lead player on the controversial ABC series from 1977 until it was canceled in 1981. In 1984 she took the role of "Mona Robinson" on the ABC sitcom Who's the Boss?. In 1993 she appeared in one episode of the British version of Who's the Boss?, The Upper Hand.

True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, and details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (played by actress Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a bar, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). The fourth season premieres Sunday June 26 on HBO.