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EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Grace (Fear The Walking Dead, Taken) has joined nan bid regular formed of AMC‘s Thunder Road, nan NASCAR play bid from John Fusco. Grace joins nan antecedently announced formed led by Dennis Quaid, Chase Stokes, Michael Rooker and Matt Barr.
Thunder Road is nan multi-generational saga of nan fictional Whitlock family, whose bequest successful banal car racing is arsenic heavy arsenic nan family’s ties to nan Southern elevation state roots that shaped them.
Quaid stars arsenic racing fable Duane Whitlock, aka The Wrecking Ball, a towering fig who built a racing empire from a bequest of moonshine runs and ungraded tracks and refuses to fto it die. With ruthless competitors who will extremity astatine thing to dethrone and destruct them, nan Whitlocks are a blue-collar dynasty astatine nan separator of extinction – and nan aged king is fighting to clasp onto nan crown.
Grace will play Laney Whitlock, oldest and smartest of Duane’s children and nan CEO of Whitlock Racing. Laney carries herself for illustration she owns oxygen. She holds herself personally accountable for nan early of nan Whitlock racing bequest arsenic she bears nan brunt of everything that comes pinch moving a title team, managing her ain family, and holding astatine bay nan small heart to beryllium nan aforesaid wrecking shot arsenic her father.
“I made friends for life connected Fear The Walking Dead. I look guardant to getting backmost successful nan saddle pinch AMC’s unsocial marque of storytelling, and to moving pinch [showrunner] Taylor Elmore again,” shared Grace.
Fusco is group to executive nutrient alongside showrunner Taylor Elmore, Cliff Roberts pinch Syndicate Entertainment, Mark L. Smith, and NASCAR Studio’s Tim Clark and John Dahl. Gladys Cheng serves arsenic producer. The show is produced successful relation pinch NASCAR.
Grace astir precocious wrapped nan caller Amazon MGM characteristic movie Fiona, starring arsenic nan titular role. She past appeared successful NBC’s Suits: LA. She besides starred successful Lionsgate’s Blackwater Lane based connected nan New York Times bestselling caller The Breakdown by B.A. Paris. Grace was a bid regular successful AMC’s Fear nan Walking Dead. She is champion known for playing nan female lead domiciled of Kim successful the Taken franchise other Liam Neeson. Grace is repped by Gersh.
