Oakes and Grainger Join Irons, Jacobi, et al. in 'The Borgias'

Actors David Oakes and Holliday Grainger have joined the cast of upcoming Showtime series  'The Borgias,' The Hollywood Reporter reports today.  Oakes will play Juan Borgia, and Grainger will play Lucrezia Borgia.  Oakes and Grainger will join the previously announced Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Colm Feore, and Francois Arnaud. 

David Oakes' credits include productions of JOURNEY'S END and LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST and will star in the upcoming 'The Pillars of the Earth' on television.  Holliday Grainger has worked extensively in television, including 'Robin Hood' and 'Merlin,' and will appear in the upcoming film of 'Jane Eyre.'

As previously announced, Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons will star in the epic drama series as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of The Borgia family who ascends to the highest circles of power within Renaissance-era Italy.

Academy Award winning director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) will create and executive produce the series as well as direct the first two episodes. Veteran film and television writer/producer Michael Hirst, who created, wrote and executive produced SHOWTIME's original series The Tudors, will serve as executive producer/writer.

THE BORGIAS will be a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history's most intriguing and infamous dynastic families. The series begins as the family's patriarch Rodrigo (Jeremy Irons), becomes Pope, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance. And all that power and influence eventually leads to their demise. As Machiavelli once said about his friends, the Borgias, "Politics have no relation to morals."

'The Bordias' is set to premiere in early 2011.

Photo Credit: Mawgan Lewis

 

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