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Anson Mount to Star in AMC’s Hell on Wheels

Anson Mount
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Anson Mount
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Stage and screen actor Anson Mount will star in AMC’s new series Hell on Wheels.

Set after the Civil War, the series focuses on a Confederate soldier named Cullen Bohannan (to be played by Mount) whose quest to avenge his wife’s death at the hands of Union soldiers takes him west to work on building the first transcontinental railroad. The drama will explore what immigrants go through and problems faced by newly emancipated blacks, all against the backdrop of the railroad’s greed and corruption.

The cast will also include Common, Dominique McElligott, Colm Meaney, Ben Esler, Philip Burke, and Eddie Spears.

Mount will co-star in the upcoming Classic Stage Company production of The Three Sisters and appeared in the New Group’s Mourning Becomes Electra. He co-starred with Brittney Spears in the film Crossroads.