Apple TV+ today announced that Nicole Beharie (“Breaking,” “Miss Juneteenth,” “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul”) has joined the cast of the Emmy Award-winning, critically acclaimed Apple Original series “The Morning Show” for its highly anticipated third season. She joins an expanding star-studded cast that includes recently announced new addition Jon Hamm, as well as Julianna Margulies.

The third season of the critically acclaimed, award-winning series, executive produced and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and produced by Media Res, is currently in production.

The Morning Show

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Beharie will star as ‘Christina Hunter,’ a grounded, competitive, and charismatic Millennial who is a new anchor on The Morning Show. Christina works hard, plays hard, and navigates the Teacup with good-humored irreverence.

“The Morning Show” is an Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award-winning series starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, executive produced by Mimi Leder, and executive produced by Michael Ellenberg, and produced by the studio Media Res, Hello Sunshine and Echo Films. The broadly acclaimed second season recently received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Reese Witherspoon; Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Billy Crudup, who also won the award for season one; and, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Marcia Gay Harden.

Season three of the “The Morning Show” will be showrun and executive produced by Charlotte Stoudt (“Fosse/Verdon,” “Homeland,” “House of Cards”), who has a multi-year overall deal with Apple TV+ for scripted television series. The series is executive produced by Michael Ellenberg through Media Res, along with Aniston and Kristin Hahn through Echo Films; Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter through Hello Sunshine. Leder serves as executive producer and director.

Picking up after the explosive events of season one, season two found “The Morning Show” team emerging from the wreckage of Alex (Aniston) and Bradley’s (Witherspoon) actions, to a new UBA and a world in flux, where identity is everything and the chasm between who we present as and who we really are comes into play. Along with Aniston and Witherspoon, the star-studded cast for season two was led by Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Bel Powley, Desean Terry, Janina Gavankar, Tom Irwin and Marcia Gay Harden. New additions for season two included Greta Lee, Ruairi O’Connor, Hasan Minhaj, Holland Taylor, Tara Karsian, Valeria Golino and Julianna Margulies.

Seasons one and two of “The Morning Show” are now streaming globally on Apple TV+. In its first season, Crudup’s performance as Corey Ellison earned an Emmy win in the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category, in addition to a Critics Choice Award. Aniston’s powerful performance as Alex Levy, earned a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. The series also received nominations from the Television Critics Association for Outstanding New Program and a TV Choice Award for Best New Drama.

Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all your favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries, and series have earned 264 wins and 1,149 award nominations and counting.

Nicole Beharie Bio:

Beharie will next be seen in “BREAKING,” a thriller following the devastating true story of Brian Brown-Easley, a disgruntled Marine veteran who held up an Atlanta Wells Fargo Bank out of desperation to bring attention to his plight after not receiving his monthly disability check of $892. Beharie stars opposite John Boyega and Michael K. Williams, and the movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where the ensemble cast was honored with the Special Jury Award.

Also at Sundance 2022, Beharie appeared in “HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.” One of the breakout hits of the festival, the film was picked up for distribution by Focus Features, Peacock and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions with a day-and-date release in theaters and on Peacock. Beharie stars in this indie comedy alongside Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown, which will be released in September.

Prior to this, Beharie starred in “MISS JUNETEENTH,” which premiered at Sundance in 2021 to critical acclaim and earned Beharie a Gotham Award win for her performance, as well as an Indie Spirit Award nomination. Her performance was also featured in Time Magazine’s ’10 Best Movie Performances of 2020′ list. Additional feature credits include “42,” “Shame,” “American Violet” and “Monsters And Men.”

Recent television credits include anthology series “Solos” and the limited series “Scenes From A Marriage” starring opposite Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain. She can also be seen in the limited series “Little Fires Everywhere” and the ‘Striking Vipers’ episode of the hit series “Black Mirror.”

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