The CW, Roku & Stan’s ‘Good Cop/Bad Cop’ Adds Seven To Regular Cast

EXCLUSIVE: More cast has been set for Good Cop/Bad Cop , the one-hour procedural dramedy starring Leighton Meester, Clancy Brown and Luke Cook.

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Devon Terrell, Grace Chow, Blazey Best, Philippa Northeast, William McKenna, Shamita Siva and Scott Lee have all joined the series, which is for The CW and The Roku Channel in the U.S. and Stan in Australia.

They will join Meester and Cook, who play an odd couple brother and sister detective team Lou and Henry in a small Pacific Northwest police force who work under police chief Big Hank (Brown), who happens to be their father.

Terrell will play charming but nerdy Detective Shane Carson, Best will be Big Hank’s somewhat cryptic Russian girlfriend Nadia, Lee plays the loveable and long-tenured Officer Joe Bradley, McKenna is nervous wreck new boy Officer Sam Szczepkowski, Siva has been cast as fearless and overly devoted Officer Sarika Ray, Chow plays petite EVPD dispatcher with a morbid streak Lily Lim and Northeast is brainy, stylish and funny Dr Marci Lane, who is the one great love of Henry’s life.

All have landed regular cast roles in the show, which we first told you about in March , citing it as a strong example of the current trend for U.S. networks to work with Australian partners on scripted series to tap into local talent pools, shooting locations and soft money. The CW, Roku and Stan have all been public about their international co-production strategies.

Terrell is leading Greg Jardin’s feature It’s What’s Inside opposite Brittany O’Grady. The film was a big Sundance hit earlier this year, selling to Netflix for $17M as we told you at the time. He was also the title character in Black Bear’s Barack Obama biopic Barry and starred in Steve McQueen’s HBO pilot Codes of Conduct . Most recently, he appeared in Sundance TV and Stan limited series Totally Completely Fine opposite Thomas McKenzie. He was also a series regular in Issa Rae’s Max original Rap Shit , a lead in Netflix series Cursed , and has appeared in The Professor opposite Johnny Depp and Ophelia with Naomi Watts and Clive Owen. Terrell is represented by IMC Talent in Australia, Hamilton Hodell in the UK, and Atlas Artists in the U.S.

Asian Australian actor and playwright Chow is best known for Australian noir drama Mystery Road: Origin on the ABC and Season 2 of Binge legal drama The Twelve , and won the Griffin Playwright’s Award in 2022. She’s represented by Zero Gravity Management in the U.S. and Moore Creative Artists in Australia. She’s well known in West Australia theater circles and was nominated for best lead actress in the state at the Performing Arts West Australia Awards last year.

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McKenna starred in ABC series The Messenger in Australia last year, BBC drama Queen of Oz , and seasons 3 and 4 of Nowhere Boys . He’s set to appear in Stan series Thou Shalt Not Steal , directed by Dylan River, and has starred in the Australian production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as part of an extensive theater CV. He’s reported by Creative Representation and AFA Prime Talent.

Lee is known for his series regular role in Seven’s soap Home and Away , and has recent TV credits including Paper Dolls , Last King of the Cross , Bondi Slayer , Diary of an Uber Driver and The Code . Feature film credits include Stevie Cruz-Martin and Daniel Monks’ indie feature Pulse , Inside Water , Crushed and Ambrosia , and he is a founder member of theater group The Kings Collective. Lee is represented by Sophie Jermyn Management.

Blazey’s film roles include Brendan Cowell’s Ruben Guthrie , Ten Empty , West , Stealth and Powder Burn . Recent TV roles include A Place to Call Home , Rake , Janet King , The Killing Field , Home and Away , Between Two Places , Pieces of Her and Significant Others . She’s seen next in the ABC series Plum , and her extensive theater credits include the Hayes Theatre production of A Little Night Music , Red Line Productions’ Amadeus ; In a Nutshell, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus + Cressida, Richard lll and The Comedy of Errors (national and UK tours), Romeo and Juliet, and The War of the Roses (Bell Shakespeare); Death of a Salesman and Medea (Belvoir); Gypsy , Miracle City and Only Heaven Knows (Luckiest Productions); Summer Rain, Wharf Revue, Arcadia, Travesties and Troupers (Sydney Theatre Company) and Fawlty Towers (Michael Coppel). She’s represented by Sue Barnett & Associates.

Australia-based Malaysian-Indian actress Siva has appeared in films such as Dashboard Dogs , FOE , La Famiglia and upcoming indie flick What Would We Do , and has extensive theater credits and her own film, Twin Flame , premieres this year. She is also a drag/cabaret artist and is repped by Brave Artist Management and Gilchrist Management.

Good Cop/Bad Cop comes from Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment and Aussie producer Jungle Entertainment in association with ITV Studios, which also has distribution rights. The show is written and executive produced by John Quaintance with Wachtel, Trent O’Donnell and Chloe Rickard serving as executive producers. O’Donnell also serves as director with Phil Lloyd set as co-executive producer. Production is supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy.

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