Hope Davis Lands HBO Comedy Pilot

Hope Davis, the actress currently reprising her role in GOD OF CARNAGE at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, may soon be seen by television audiences in HBO's newest series, 'Spring/Fall'.

According to Deadline.com, "Jake Kasdan has come on board to direct the project, which is set in New York City against the backdrop of the fashion world and centers on the dysfunctional partnership between Margo (Tea Leoni) and Eden (Davis), two women with different approaches to career, family and friendship. Margo is a successful designer and a happily married mother of 5-year-old twins working for famous fashion designer Victor Cross. When he commits suicide, Margo takes over his line and quickly realizes she's in over her head, so she reaches out to her estranged former best friend and collaborator Eden, a onetime famous fashion designer herself, and convinces her to come work for her."

Hope Davis first garnered critical attention in Greg Mottola's The Daytrippers, Bart Freundlich's The Myth of Fingerprints, and Brad Anderson's Next Stop Wonderland. Her films also include Matador, with Greg Kinnear and Pierce Brosnan; Gore Verbinski's The Weatherman, opposite Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine; John Madden's adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play Proof, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, and Jake Gyllenhaal; and Dumas and Me for Carroll Ballard. Most recently, she filmed Every Word Is True, directed by Doug McGrath. Ms. Davis's film appearances have included the role of Jack Nicholson's daughter in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt; Hearts in Atlantis, opposite Anthony Hopkins; Campbell Scott's Final, with Denis Leary; Arlington Road, with Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins; and Lawrence Kasdan's Mumford. On stage Ms. Davis has appeared at Lincoln Center Theater in Spinning into Butter; Ivanov, opposite Kevin Kline; and Two Shakespearean Actors. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in Pterodactyls, The Food Chain, The Iceman Cometh, and David Mamet's Speed the Plow, directed by Joel Schumacher.

Along with Jeff Daniels, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden, Davis is in Los Angeles for six weeks to bring GOD OF CARNAGE to the Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre, through May 15, 2011. Opening night is April 13.

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