Olivia Munn has joined the cast of HISTORY’s Six season two
Olivia Munn is joining the cast of Six season two, HISTORY today announced. She’ll play Gina, said to be a smart and ruthless CIA operative who rose from being a CIA Shooter to a high level Operations Officer.
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Six season two begins production later this month in Vancouver with plans for a ten-episode run. The series is inspired by the real missions of Navy SEAL Team Six, the unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden. Six depicts the emotional truths of what it means to be in SEAL Team Six, their complex personal lives and the life and death decisions that protect American interests.
Six was created and written by Academy Award nominee William Broyles (Cast Away, Apollo 13) and David Broyles, a military special operations veteran. The series stars Barry Sloane, Kyle Schmid, Juan Pablo Raba, Edwin Hodge, Brianne Davis, Nadine Velazquez, Dominic Adams, Jaylen Moore and Lindsley Register, all of whom will return for the new season. As previously announced, The Killing‘s Eric Ladin joins the cast as Trevor, an experienced SEAL who will join the team and disrupt the status quo.
Munn was most recently seen in Office Christmas Party alongside Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston, and as Psylocke in last summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Her upcoming projects including voicing Koko in The LEGO NINJAGO Movie and starring in Shane Black’s The Predator.
Six season 2 is an A+E Studios production in association with Weinstein Television. William Broyles, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, David Broyles, Bruce C. McKenna, Alfredo Barrios, Jr., George W. Perkins, David Glasser, Nicolas Chartier, Meryl Poster and Barry Jossen are executive producers. Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Mitchell Hall serves as the series’ technical advisor and producer. CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen serves as the series’ terrorism consultant. Arturo Interian serves as the executive in charge of production for HISTORY.
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