“We wrapped the final episode in March 2016, and they were sweet enough to give me the 100th episode to direct,” says Thompson, 55. The popular, award-winning series finally returns Tuesday for its 10-episode fifth (and final) season revolving around Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano) and Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc), who were switched at birth as infants and raised in different environments: Bay with upper-middle-class parents Kathryn (Lea Thompson) and John (DW Moffett) Kennish - and Daphne, who’s deaf, with working mom Regina Vasquez (Constance Marie). He will also appear in the upcoming comedy Roofers, which he is not only starring in but also is directing the film based on a script he co-wrote.“Switched at Birth” hasn’t aired since October 2015, when Freeform was still called ABC Family.

His film credits include Sicario: Day of the Soldado, The Tax Collector, End of Watch, and The Guilty. Castañeda is also set to star in the second season of Most Dangerous Game. He has also had recurring roles in a number of other series like Jane the Virgin, Switched at Birth, and Southland. When the series was first announced Johnson described it as “fun, character-driven, case-of-the-week mystery goodness.' Johnson has earned a lot of goodwill from audiences in the murder-mystery genre as his film Knives Out not only snagged him a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nomination, but its two sequels are also some of the most anticipated upcoming films on Netflix’s slate.Ĭastañeda is likely best known to audiences for his role as Diego Hargreeves in the fan-favorite Netflix series The Umbrella Academy and can next be seen in Season 3 of the series later this summer. The series is said to be a “procedural format” with “Lyonne’s character working to solve different murders in each episode”. We do know that Lyonne will be playing the main character.

The major details of the plot of Poker Face have been kept secret, as has the nature of Castañeda’s role in the series. Now, Variety is reporting that The Umbrella Academy star David Castañeda has also joined the cast. Just in the past few days both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Stephanie Hsu have joined the series. This past week has been full of casting news for the new Peacock series Poker Face, which will be a collaboration between Russian Doll creator and star Natasha Lyonne and Knives Out writer and director Rian Johnson.

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