Helene Yorke to Join Skylar Astin in Epix Comedy GRAVES

According to Deadline, stage veteran Helene York has signed on for Epix's upcoming comedy GRAVES. The BULLETS OVER BROADWAY alum will appear alongside Nick Nolte and Skylar Astin in the project.

The series is descibe as: "25 years after his presidency, former Commander in Chief Richard Graves (Nolte) has the epiphany that his policies have damaged the country for decades and so, with his young assistant (Skylar Astin), he goes on a Don Quixote-like journey to right his administration's wrongs just as his wife, the former First Lady, decides to follow her own political ambitions."

Per the report, York will play Graves' daugther, who was the "perfect" darling of the country as the First Daughter growing up in the White House. After the recent exposure of her Congressman husband's infidelities, she finds herself moving back home, where, as her life spirals out of control, she struggles beneath the ever-present burden of her iconic parents.

As previously reported, Susan Sarandon recently bowed out of the series.

About York:

Broadway: Grease ("Marty"). Off Broadway: Walmartopia (Minetta Lane),What's That Smell... (Atlantic Theater Company); TV: 30 ROCK (NBC), A Gifted Man (CBS), I Just Want My Pants Back, (MTV), LOUIE (FX), and Showtime's upcoming series Masters of Sex. Film: Wifed Out, Darkroom. BFA in Musical Theatre, The University of Michigan.