Brad Garrett, Boris Kodjoe, Vanessa Williams Among Stage Stars Added to TV Pilots

Deadline.com has announced the latest round of stage veterans cast in upcoming television pilots.

Tony Award nominee Vanessa Williams has joined ABC’s supernatural drama 666 Park Ave, about a young couple (to be played by Rachael Taylor and Dave Annable) who accept an offer to manage one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City. Williams will play the sophisticated wife of the building’s owner (played by Terry O’Quinn).

Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett, who appeared in the Broadway revival of The Odd Couple, will star opposite Sarah Chalke and Elizabeth Perkins in ABC’s comedy How to Live With Your Parents For The Rest Of Your Life. He will play Perkins’ husband and Chalke’s stepfather, Max, a nightclub owner.

Boris Kodjoe, who starred in the recent Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, will join Claire Forlani, Jessica McNamee, and Karine Vanasse in ABC’s drama pilot Scruples, based on Judith Krantz’s novel about a wealthy Beverly Hills clothing designer.

Matt Letscher will play the father of the young Carrie Bradshaw (played by AnnaSophia Robb) in the CW pilot Carrie Diaries, based on Candace Bushnell’s novel and set in the 1980s.

Tim Guinee has been added to cast of NBC’s drama pilot Revolution, which follows a group of people struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist.

Former Rent and Guiding Light star Sharon Leal will play the wife of Cuba Gooding Jr. in the Fox drama pilot Guilty, about a disbarred defense attorney who uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling and to exact revenge on those who set him up.

Chris Messina will join Mindy Kaling in her still-untitled pilot about a young doctor trying to balance her personal and professional lives.