The Hollywood Reporter has posted an announcement that Beau Bridges has won the lead role in a new Lifetime pilot called “Family Practice”:
Emmy winner Beau Bridges has been tapped to star in Lifetime’s drama pilot “Family Practice.”
“Practice,” from Sony Pictures TV and “Lost” co-creator Jeffrey Lieber, centers on a South Philly girl who becomes entangled personally and professionally with the affluent, Kennedyesque family members of one of the city’s most prestigious law firms.
Bridges will play the family’s patriarch, a brilliant, radical, Machiavellian lawyer who once defended the most controversial clients he could find. He is a peerless legal mind but not so successful as a father and a husband.
Bridges won Emmys for his roles in the telefilms “The Second Civil War,” “Without Warning: The James Brady Story” and “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom.”
He earned his 11th Emmy nomination this year for his guest-starring role on NBC’s “My Name Is Earl.”
Bridges is repped by CAA.