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EXCLUSIVE: The 5th play of Apple TV’s multi-award winning The Morning Show is adding Jesse Williams. The character will play Vernon, UBN’s newest Head of News, who is known arsenic a brash pot-stirrer pinch a talent for grabbing and keeping an audience.
Williams joins returning Morning Show cast Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, two-time Emmy Award victor Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie and Emmy Award victor Jon Hamm, on pinch recently announced Jeff Daniels.
Season 4 of The Morning Show” took spot successful outpouring 2024, almost 2 years aft nan events of play three. With nan UBA-NBN merger complete, nan newsroom must grapple pinch newfound responsibility, hidden motives and nan elusive quality of truth successful a polarized America. In a world rife pinch deepfakes, conspiracy theories and firm cover-ups — who tin you trust? And really tin you cognize what’s really real?
The Emmy, SAG and Critics Choice Award-winning bid is executive produced by Witherspoon alongside Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine, and besides EP’ed by Aniston alongside Kristin Hahn for Echo Fims. Charlotte Stoudt is nan showrunner and EP pinch Mimi Leder EP and director. Other EPs are Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer done Media Res. Zander Lehmann and Micah Schraft besides EPs.
The 3rd play of The Morning Show received 16 Emmy Award nominations and Crudup landed his 2nd Emmy Award triumph for his move arsenic Cory Ellison successful nan Outstanding Supporting Actor successful a Drama Series category. Crudup besides won a Critics Choice Award for his portrayal of Ellison successful nan show’s 3rd season. Season 3 was honored by nan American Film Institute connected its prestigious database of nan 10 champion tv programs of 2023.
Williams is known for playing Dr. Jackson Avery successful 277 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. His Broadway debut arsenic Darren Lemming successful Take Me Out scored him a Tony Award information for Featured Actor – Play successful 2022.
Last August, Williams starred successful nan Amazon Prime Video bid Hotel Costiera, which instantly deed #1 connected nan streamer. On nan movie side, he astir precocious co-starred successful Max’s The Great Lillian Hall opposite Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates. He has had notable roles successful Hulu’s Actor Award winning Only Murders successful nan Building, nan Netflix romanticist drama Your Place aliases Mine other Witherspoon, and Paramount+’s Secret Headquarters pinch Owen Wilson.
Williams has produced a drawstring of critically acclaimed projects including nan 2020 Oscar-winning short Two Distant Strangers (Netflix), Norman Lear’s EPIX docuseries America Divided and nan 2025 Sundance-nominated short Hoops, Hopes and Dreams, which premiered connected Hulu this past January.
The character is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Granderson Des Rochers.
