Toni Collette Joins HBO Max’s ‘The Staircase’ as Michael Peterson’s Wife

Toni Collette has been solid in HBO Max’s scripted “The Staircase” miniature sequence as Kathleen Peterson, the wife of novelist Michael Peterson, whose suspicious demise was the topic of the hit docuseries of the identical establish.

She joins Colin Firth within the sequence from Antonio Campos and Maggie Cohn. Firth stars as Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his wife and spent eight years in penal complex. In 2011, he was granted a recent trial, nonetheless ahead of it’ll also open, he submitted to an Alford plea to the reduced fee of manslaughter. He was sentenced to time already served and was space free.

Collette’s Kathleen is described as “a corporate government, mother and stepmother of 5.”

The eight-episode miniature sequence is an adaptation of the customary docuseries directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, which was first launched in 2004 and then up to this level with knowledge in 2013 and again in 2018, when it was launched as a Netflix documentary.

Campos will snarl six of the eight episodes and co-write the sequence with Cohn. The sequence is a co-manufacturing between HBO Max and Annapurna Television.

“This has been a mission I in actuality were engaged on in a single formulation or one other since 2008,” Campos stated when the sequence was first picked up last month. “It’s been a long and winding side road, nonetheless successfully price the wait to have the ability to search out companions love HBO Max, Annapurna, co-showrunner Maggie Cohn and the improbable Colin Firth to dramatize this sort of complex trusty-life chronicle.”

Collette is represented by Jen Turner at Finley Management, United Management and CAA.