Renée Zellweger has signed on to her first major TV project. Deadline reports the Oscar winner will star in the debut season of “What/If,” an upcoming anthology thriller series at Netflix. Each season the show will depict a different morality tale and delve into “the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things.”
Zellweger inked a one-year series regular deal for the project. Her character, Anne, is a venture capitalist who makes a lucrative, “ethically perilous proposition” to a financially strapped newlywed couple. Anne is “magnetically charismatic, seductive, charming, even vulnerable when it serves her purpose,” the source details. “But she’s also a virtuoso of deception with a cauldron of destructive secrets, including a deeply buried metaphorical deal with the devil that set the course for her life back when she was still just a girl herself.”
“What/If” is being produced by Page Fright, Atlas Entertainment, and Compari Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television. “Revenge” creator Mike Kelley is writing, and will EP for Page Fright alongside Melissa Loy.
In 2004 Zellweger won the best supporting actress Academy Award for “Cold Mountain.” She’s also received best actress nods for “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Chicago.” Her recent credits include “Bridget Jones’s Baby” and “Same Kind of Different as Me.” You can see Zellweger next in slice-of-life drama “Here and Now,” out November 9, and as the lead character in Judy Garland biopic “Judy,” due next year.
