{"id":28728,"date":"2026-06-02T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/28728\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:01:44","slug":"ballard-casts-hamish-linklater-for-season-2-of-bosch-spinoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/28728\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ballard&#8217; Casts Hamish Linklater For Season 2 Of &#8216;Bosch&#8217; Spinoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ballard\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ballard\" data-tag=\"ballard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballard<\/a> continues to expand its Season 2 cast, adding <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hamish-linklater\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hamish-linklater\" data-tag=\"hamish-linklater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamish Linklater<\/a> (Gen V, Midnight Mass) in a major recurring role. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tInspired by the work of bestselling author Michael Connelly, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bosch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bosch\" data-tag=\"bosch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bosch<\/a> spinoff follows Detective Ren\u00e9e Ballard (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/maggie-q\/\" id=\"auto-tag_maggie-q\" data-tag=\"maggie-q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Q<\/a>) as she leads the LAPD\u2019s new and underfunded cold case division, tackling the city\u2019s most challenging long-forgotten crimes. With the help of her volunteer team and retired detective Harry Bosch (<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/titus-welliver\/\" id=\"auto-tag_titus-welliver\" data-tag=\"titus-welliver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Titus Welliver<\/a>), Detective Ballard navigates personal trauma, professional challenges, and life-threatening dangers to expose the truth and bring justice to victims that fall through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLinklater will play Chris Alexander, an ambitious and magnetic figure whose boyish sincerity and sharp intellect make him instantly compelling. Beneath his charismatic exterior lies a calculating mind and a powerful desire for control, making him a formidable presence this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Maggie Q and Welliver, the cast includes Courtney Taylor, Rebecca Field, Victoria Moroles, Amy Hill and John Carroll Lynch. Previously announced Season 2 cast include Benjamin Bratt, Rosanna Arquette and Ever Carradine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe second season of\u00a0Ballard\u00a0is executive produced by Michael Connelly, Michael Alaimo, Kendall Sherwood, Henrik Bastin, Jasmine Russ, and Trish Hofmann. Theresa Snider serves as co-executive producer for Hieronymus Pictures. Richard Hicks\u00a0is casting director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLinklater was most recently seen in the series regular role of Cipher in Season 2 of Prime Video\u2019s Gen V and starring as President Abraham Lincoln in Apple TV\u2019s Manhunt. He\u2019s known for his work on Mike Flanagan\u2019s Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass, and he will next be seen in Flanagan\u2019s new Exorcist movie which Universal releases today. He also recently wrapped production on the Netflix feature The Whisper Man, starring opposite Robert De Niro and Michelle Monaghan. Linklater is repped by Gersh, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ballard continues to expand its Season 2 cast, adding Hamish Linklater (Gen V, Midnight Mass) in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21054],"tags":[28248,5307,28249,28250,28251,21064,28252],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bosch","tag-ballard","tag-bosch","tag-hamish-linklater","tag-maggie-q","tag-prime-video","tag-robert-bosch","tag-titus-welliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}