'Disgraced' Star Karen Pittman to Join Season 3 of FX's THE AMERICANS

Deadline reports that Karen Pittman, currently starring in Broadway's DISGRACED, which officially opened last night, has signed on for a recurring role on the third season of FX's THE AMERICANS.

The actress will portray Lisa, described as "a struggling mother and recovering alcoholic who works on the assembly line of a highly classified Defense Department project and just became the Alcoholic Anonymous sponsor of newly sober Michele. But what Lisa doesn't know is that Michele is actually an alias being used by covert KGB spy Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), who wants information on Lisa's classified project - and their fast friendship is belied by Elizabeth's ulterior motives."

Pittman starred in the Lincoln Center production of DISGRACED and her Broadway credits include Good People and Passing Strange. She also appeared in Bruce Norris's Domesticated directed by Anna D Shapiro at LCT. She has numerous TV credits including House of Cards, The Americans, The Good Wife, White Collar. Her film credits include The Bourne Legacy, Last Night, the soon-to-be-released Begin Again with Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley, and the upcoming The Rewrite with Hugh Grant.

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