Caste: Niecy Nash-Betts, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Jon Bernthal Join Cast of Aunjanue Ellis Starrer

The cast of Academy Award winner Ava DuVernay's upcoming film Caste has grown to include Niecy Nash-Betts, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Nick Offerman, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Connie Nielsen. According to Variety, a US-based mediahouse, the six actors join Academy Award contender Aunjanue Ellis as the lead in the film based on Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The book, described by The New York Times as "an instant American classic and probably likely the best nonfiction book of the American century thus far," examines the structure of hierarchy that has shaped America. Variety further reports that DuVernay co-writes, directs, and produces the picture with ARRAY Filmworks' Paul Garnes (Selma, Middle of Nowhere).  Lovecraft Country Review: Racism Is Scarier Than Man-Eating Monsters in This Gripping Horror-Fantasy Series.

Nash-Betts and Farmiga reconnect with DuVernay after being nominated for Emmys for their roles in the 2019 Netflix limited series When They See Us, while Offerman starred in DuVernay's 2021 limited series Colin in Black & White. Bernthal and Ellis reconnect after their outstanding work on Warner Bros.' King Richard last year. Variet report that Nash-Betts joins the cast after winning a Critics Choice Award for Netflix's Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story; she also acts in ABC's The Rookie: Feds, a smash hit for the network. Farmiga, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Up in the Air, most recently appeared in Five Days at Memorial on Apple TV+, Marvel's Hawkeye on Disney+, HBO's The Many Saints of Newark, as well as The Conjuring franchise and The Departed.  Naomi: Ava DuVernay's DC Series Cancelled by CW After One Season.

Emmy nominee Offerman recently starred in HBO Max's new series The Last of Us and previously starred in Peacock's The Resort. Bernthal was most recently seen in The Bear on FX and American Gigolo on Showtime. Cephas Jones is best known for playing Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Tony-winning Broadway sensation Hamilton. She is presently producing and starring in Blindspotting for Starz, returning her role as Ashley Hamilton from the 2018 film. Nielsen portrayed Queen Hippolyta in Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 1984, and Justice League: The Snyder Cut after starring in the Oscar-winning picture Gladiator. Liza Bolton's movie Ocean Deep will be her next project, as per Variety.