| UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, THE (AMAZON)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
5/14/21
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STATUS:
canceled/ended (2020-2021 season) |
TIME SLOT:
completed airing its current season |
SEASON(S):
1 (10 episodes, 0 of which have yet to air) |
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ADDITIONAL NOTES:
limited series |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Amazon's web site, May 2021) From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "The Underground Railroad" is a new series that chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Aaron Pierre as Caesar
· Amber Gray as Gloria Valentine
· Chase W. Dillon as Homer
· Chukwudi Iwuji
· Damon Herriman as Martin
· Fred Hechinger as Young Ridgeway
· Irone Singleton
· Joel Edgerton as Ridgeway
· Lily Rabe as Ethel Wells
· Marcus "MJ" Gladney, Jr.
· Mychal-Bella Bowman
· Peter De Jersey
· Peter Mullan
· Sheila Atim
· Thuso Mbedu as Cora Randall
· Will Poulter
· William Jackson Harper as Royal
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Adele Romanski as EP
· Barry Jenkins as CRTR/DIR/EP
· Brad Pitt as EP
· Colson Whitehead as BOOK/EP
· Dede Gardner as EP
· Jacqueline Hoyt as EP
· Jeremy Kleiner as EP
· Mark Ceryak as EP
· Richard Heus as EP
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Amazon Studios
· Big Indie
· Pastel
· Plan B Entertainment
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