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By: Apr. 28, 2015
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TNT's LEGENDS has added a Tony winner to its cast.

According to Deadline, Steve Kazee has signed on for the network's drama, starring Screen Actors Guild Award(R) winner Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings). SONS OF ANARCHY's Winter Ave Zoli, Kelly Overton and Aisling Franciosi have also joined the cast.

Kazee will take on the part of "Curtis Ballard, a role that appears in two time periods - aged 30 in 2001 and mid 40s in present day. Young, Ballard is a by-the-book, clean-living FBI Agent. He is intelligent, private, but not without humor. Later, Ballard is scarred, driven, obsessed after failing to catch a criminal in the past."

In Legends, Bean plays Martin Odum, an undercover agent working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations (DCO) division. Martin has the uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But he begins to question his own identity when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn't the man he believes himself to be.

In addition to winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the 2013 Grammy for Musical Theater Album for Once, Steve Kazee has appeared on Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot as Sir Lancelot, Starbuck opposite Audra McDonald in the Roundabout's 110 in the Shade, To Be or Not to Be at MTC, Edward Albee's Seascape. Regional credits include The Subject Was Roses (Kennedy Center, Helen Hayes Award nomination for Best Actor alongside Bill Pullmanand Judith Ivey). Off-Broadway: As You Like It (NYSF).

On TV he has appeared in "Working Class" opposite Melissa Peterman, "100 Questions" (NBC), "CSI" (CBS), "NCIS" (CBS), "Numb3rs" (CBS), "Medium" (NBC), "Conviction" (NBC). He most recently co-starred in the ABC drama pilot Warriors. He most recently appeared on Showtime's "Shameless."



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