{"id":1021039,"date":"2026-08-24T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:32:14","slug":"trial-of-louise-woodward-hbo-series-casts-catriona-chandler-joanne-froggatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1021039\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Trial Of Louise Woodward&#8217; HBO Series Casts Catriona Chandler &#038; Joanne Froggatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/catriona-chandler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_catriona-chandler\" data-tag=\"catriona-chandler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catriona Chandler<\/a> (Disney+\u2019s Rivals) has landed the title role in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>\u2018s true-crime limited series,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-trial-of-louise-woodward\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-trial-of-louise-woodward\" data-tag=\"the-trial-of-louise-woodward\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trial of Louise Woodward<\/a>, Deadline has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso newly set for a role is\u00a0Downton Abbey\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joanne-froggatt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joanne-froggatt\" data-tag=\"joanne-froggatt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joanne Froggatt<\/a>, who will play Louise\u2019s mother, Susan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreated by Matthew Barry, who serves as showrunner, writer and exec producer,\u00a0The Trial of Louise Woodward\u00a0tells the shocking true story of how, in 1997, an 18-year-old British au pair was accused of shaking to death a baby left in her care by her American host family, setting off an international media firestorm as the trial unfolds in full view of both the British and American public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWe recently announced the series order, along with the casting of Meghann Fahy and Sagar Radia as Deborah and Sunil Eappen \u2014 parents of the victim, Matthew Eappen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther exec producers include Susanne Bier, who directs all episodes, as well as Big Light Productions founder Frank Spotnitz, Emily Feller, Tobi de Graaff, Antoine Douaihy, and Anton TV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduction kicks off this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChandler is best known for starring in\u00a0Rivals, the period comedy-drama for Disney+ and Hulu, based on the Rutshire Chronicles novels by Jilly Cooper, which returned for its second season this year. Recently, she\u2019s also been seen in\u00a0Wild Cherry\u00a0(BBC) and\u00a0The Wives\u00a0(Channel 5), with additional credits including FX\u2019s\u00a0Pistol\u00a0and Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Enola Holmes 2. She is repped by Curtis Brown Group and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Golden Globe winner and three-time Emmy nominee, Froggatt is known for her role as Anna Bates, head housemaid at\u00a0Downton Abbey\u00a0\u2014 both in the lauded British historical drama of the same name, which ran for six seasons, and in the trilogy of films that followed, which brought in over $389 million worldwide. Froggatt has more recently been seen starring in Paramount+\u2019s\u00a0MobLand, from director Guy Ritchie, and is now filming a role alongside Matt Dillon in the MGM+ series\u00a0The Magnificent Seven. She is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant, Paradigm, and Principal Entertainment LA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Catriona Chandler (Disney+\u2019s Rivals) has landed the title role in HBO\u2018s true-crime limited series,\u00a0The Trial of Louise Woodward,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1021040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[408560,171,5560,408561,408562,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1021039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-catriona-chandler","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-joanne-froggatt","tag-the-trial-of-louise-woodward","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117150741472803548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}