Megan Hilty Boards Bravo's GIRLFRIEND'S GUIDE TO DIVORCE

Megan Hilty is returning to the small screen!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Broadway and SMASH veteran has booked a role on Bravo's scripted series GIRLFRIEND'S GUIDE TO DIVORCE. Also joining 'DIVORCE' are Maury Sterling and Aaron Staton.

Per THR: "Sterling will recur as Abby's best friend Jo's (Alanna Ubach) ex-husband Frumpkis, who travels to L.A. to be closer to his daughter, while Hilty will play Charlene, a southern belle who is married to him. Staton, meanwhile, joins the cast as JD, a new love interest for one of the women."

From Universal Cable Productions, Bravo's first original scripted series, "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce," follows Abby McCarthy (Lisa Edelstein, "House"), a self-help book author and guru of all things family, who shocks the world when she reveals that her seemingly perfect life has all been a lie. After publicly admitting that she has separated from her husband, Jake (Paul Adelstein, "Private Practice"), America's once-favorite girlfriend finds her career and marriage in a free fall. As she starts to navigate life as a single woman in her 40s, Abby turns to her new divorced friends, rather than her married ones, for advice. Her friend Lyla (Janeane Garofalo, "Reality Bites") is a legendary no-nonsense entertainment lawyer who is in a constant 'War of the Roses' battle with her ex-husband, and Phoebe (Beau Garrett, "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior") is a former model and budding entrepreneur who has a very unique relationship with her ex. Abby also relies on her best friend from college, Jo (Alanna Ubach, "Meet the Fockers), a blunt, brassy New Yorker who comes to L.A. to help through her divorce. When she hires Delia (Necar Zadegan, "Emily Owens, MD") as her divorce attorney, Abby's brother Max (Patrick Heusinger, "Royal Pains"), who fought hard for the right to marry, questions his sister on how she can so easily decide to walk away from her own marriage.

Abby is on a journey of self-discovery as she attempts to salvage her career, get back in the dating game and figure out her new identity as a single woman. As she hits the reset button on her life, she embarks on startling adventures and mishaps along the way, including her first post-marriage hook-up, a blog post gone horribly wrong and a Vegas trip that leads to some unexpected complications. And, while in the process of trying and failing to have the "perfect divorce," Abby ultimately must figure out whether her marriage is worth saving.

The series also stars J. August Richards ("Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."), C. Thomas Howell ("The Outsiders"), Julianna Guill ("Crazy, Stupid, Love"), Michael Weaver ("The Joe Schmo Show") and Charles Mesure ("Desperate Housewives"). The pilot also includes a cameo by Carrie Fisher as Abby's book editor, Cat.

Hilty first made a name for herself in the role of Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked. Of her performance of Lorelai in the Encores! staging of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote, "Megan Hilty achieves the unlikely feat of wrestling Lorelei from the hands of [Marilyn] Monroe and [Carol] Channing to make the character entirely and originally hers." She recently starred alongside Sean Hayes in NBC's comedy Sean Saves the World. Prior to that, she portrayed the seasoned triple-threat Ivy Lynn in NBC's musical drama Smash for two seasons. In March 2013, Hilty released her debut solo album, It Happens All The Time, which included fresh interpretations of compositions by contemporary songwriters and producers.

Additionally, her voice was featured as Rosetta in Disney's Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings. She's previously recorded vocals in Disney's The Secret Life of Magic Gourd, Phineas & Ferb, Glenn Martin DDS, American Dad, Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games, Robot & Monster, LEGENDS of Oz: Dorothy's Return as well as singing as Snow White in the film Shrek the Third. She can also be heard alongside Placido Domingo on the opera star's duet album.

Her television credits include guest-starring roles in Melissa & Joey, Bones, The Closer, Desperate Housewives, CSI, Shark, Ugly Betty, Eli Stone and The Suite Life of Zach & Cody. Among Hilty's film credits are The Bitter Feast and the short film The Happiest Man Alive, opposite Justin Chambers.

Photos by Jay Brady

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