In these parts she’s best known as Zori Bliss, leader of the spice runners of Kijimi in The Rise of Skywalker but soon Keri Russell will be known to Netflix viewers as career diplomat Kate Wyler in her latest foray into televisionland in the aptly titled The Diplomat from Debora Cahn.
It’s been almost four years since The Americans came to an end on FX, and Keri Russell has since segued into big-screen roles — she even appeared in a Star Wars movie. But now the actress behind KGB operative Nadezhda Popova, a.k.a. Elizabeth Jennings, is returning to television for a new political thriller.
Netflix announced Wednesday that Russell will executive-produce and star in The Diplomat, an eight-episode series from Debora Cahn, an EP on shows including Homeland and The West Wing.
Russell will play a career diplomat named Kate Wyler, who lands a high-profile job she’s unsuited for in the midst of an international crisis. That creates “tectonic implications” for her marriage and political future.
