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EXCLUSIVE: Nava Mau (Baby Reindeer, Generation) and Malia Pyles (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin) are group for guest-starring roles successful Season 2 of nan NBC play Brilliant Minds. The bid aired its mid-season finale connected December 1, and will return coming astatine 10 p.m. connected NBC.
Mau will look successful section 215, “The Missing Person,” scheduled to aerial connected March 2nd, successful nan domiciled of Denise. Denise is recovered down aft a nighttime astatine nan club. Her aerial of enigma is punctured erstwhile our squad discovers what precisely this statement woman is moving distant from…
Pyles will look successful section 213, “The Rabbit Hole,” scheduled to aerial connected January 26. Pyles plays Nora Sutton, a mechanical engineering student by time who hangs pinch her Theta Epsilon Phi sisters by night. She’s not your emblematic sorority woman successful immoderate sense. While Nora loves her tight-knit circle of sorority sisters, her truest partner-in-crime is her nerdy older sister.
Inspired by nan life and activity of writer and expert Oliver Sacks, Brilliant Minds follows Dr. Oliver Wolf, a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, and his squad of interns arsenic they research nan past awesome frontier – nan quality mind – while grappling pinch their ain relationships and intelligence health.
In summation to Quinto, Brilliant Minds also stars Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, Alex MacNicoll, Aury Krebs, Spence Moore II, Teddy Sears, Donna Murphy, John Clarence Stewart, Brian Altemus and Al Calderon. Bellamy Young and Sarah Steele are recurring impermanent stars successful Season 2.
Michael Grassi serves arsenic writer and executive producer. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Lee Toland Krieger, DeMane Davis, Jasmine Russ, Henrik Bastin, Jonathan Cavendish, Andy Serkis and Shefali Malhoutra besides executive produce.
Berlanti Productions, Fabel Entertainment, The Imaginarium, Grassi Productions and Tavala nutrient successful relation pinch Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group.
Mau is an award-winning filmmaker, actress, and taste worker from Mexico City and San Antonio, Texas. Nava wrote, produced, directed, and starred successful Waking Hour (Outfest, 2019) and All The Words But The One (Iris Prize, 2024), 2 short films that screened successful world festivals. She was a accumulation chap for nan Netflix documentary Disclosure (Sundance, 2020) and worked arsenic a shaper connected nan short movie Work (Tribeca, 2022). She has besides appeared arsenic a bid regular successful nan HBO Max bid Generation (2021), and is champion known for her domiciled arsenic Teri successful nan award-winning Netflix constricted bid Baby Reindeer(2024). For her portrayal, she received Emmy and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actress and won nan Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance successful a New Series. Nava is represented by Innovative Artists and IKIGAI Management & Media.
American-Filipino character Pyles will prima successful nan upcoming Apple TV bid Cape Fear. She is champion known for her domiciled arsenic Minnie ‘Mouse’ Honrada, starring alongside Bailee Madison, Maia Reficco, Mallory Bechtel, and Chandler Kinney successful HBO Max’s Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin and Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. Previously, she starred alongside Zach Galifianakis successful nan FX award-winning drama series, Baskets, playing his daughter. Additional tv credits see The CW’s Batwoman, Freeform’s The Fosters, ABC’s How to Get Away pinch Murder, ABC’s Speechless, and Nickelodeon’s Bella and nan Bulldogs. Pyles is repped by Monster Talent Management, Innovative Artists, and Myman Greenspan Fox.
