Kate Winslet, Gavin O'Connor Join Brad Inglesby's MARE OF EASTTOWN

Deadline reports that Kate Winslet will star in Mare of Easttown, a limited series for HBO, with Gavin O'Connor directing. Brad Ingelsby created and wrote the show and will serve as showrunner.

Winslet, making her limited series debut, will play a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder at a time when her own life is crumbling around her. O'Connor, Ingelsby and Winslet will executive produce with Gordon Gray, Paul Lee, and Mark Roybal.

Winslet won an Oscar for The Reader and has been nominated five other times. She is best known for Titanic, Revolutionary Road, Sense and Sensibility, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, and Steve Jobs.

Ingelsby wrote Out of the Furnace, Run All Night, AMERICAN WOMAN and Torrance, the upcoming Ben Affleck drama directed by O'Connor and produced by Gray.

O'Connor's work includes Tumbleweeds, Miracle, The Accountant, Pride and Glory, Warrior and Torrance. He also directed the pilot of FX's The Americans.

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