Tony Winner Bryan Cranston to Star in CBS Drama Pilot SNEAKY PETE

According to the Hollywood Reporter, this season's CBS lineup will include the drama SNEAKY PETE, a pilot from Sony Pictures starring Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston.

Produced by Cranston and David Shore (HOUSE), SNEAKY PETE was first introduced this past November. It tells the story of a con-man who, upon release from prison, take on the identity of his former cellmate in order to hide from his past, or more specifically, the mob.

With his new life comes a bail bond business, a family, a personal vendetta to track down criminals, and a woman who is not fooled by his disguise.

SNEAKY PETE executive producers include James Degus and Erin Gunn.

Bryan Cranston won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for All the Way. He began his acting career in local and regional theatres, getting his start at the Granada Theater in the San Fernando Valley. He is best known for portraying Walter White in Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013, and Hal in Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006. He won four Emmy Awards and was nominated for five more.

Bryan Cranston won the 2014 Golden Globe® and three consecutive Emmy® Awards for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" for his portrayal of Walter White on AMC's Breaking Bad. Cranston holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series, and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy® Awards to receive three consecutive wins. His performance has also earned him a fourth Emmy® nomination this year, a Television Critics Association award, three Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild award.

On the big screen, Cranston won a second Screen Actors Guild award this year for his co-starring role in the 2012 Oscar-winning Best Picture, Argo, essaying the role of CIA operative Jack O'Donnell opposite star-director Ben Affleck.

He will next star in Jay Roach's Trumbo playing the title role of Dalton Trumbo, who was one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters whose career came to an end when he was blacklisted in the 1940's for being a communist.

Source: Hollywood Reporter