Lioness: Nicole Kidman joins the cast of Taylor Sheridan’s CIA drama series

Nicole Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut, Paddington, Cold Mountain) is saddling up for Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness, a new series based on a real-life CIA program. In addition to her acting role, Kidman is also an executive producer on the series. The story follows Cruz Manuelos (Laysla De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.

Kidman joins an intriguing cast, including Zoe Saldaña, Jill Wagner, Dave Annable, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Hannah Love Lanier, Stephanie Nur, and Jonah Wharton. According to Variety‘s exclusive report, Kidman plays Kaitlyn Meade, “the CIA’s Senior Supervisor who has had a long career of playing the politics game. She must juggle the trappings of being a woman in the high-ranking intelligence community, a wife that longs for the attention she herself can’t even give and a mentor to someone veering suspiciously close to the same rocky road she’s found herself on.”

Sheridan is on fire at Paramount+, with several series performing like gangbusters for the streamer, including Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, 1923, and Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone. Additionally, Sheridan is developing Land Man starring Billy Bob Thornton. In Land Man, Thornton plays a crisis manager for an oil company. Based on the Boomtown podcast, Land Man is executive produced by Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Geyer Kosinski, and David Hutkin. Production for Land Man will begin in 2023.

Kidman is busy with other projects, including reprising Atlanna for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. She also stars with Joey King, Zac Efron, Kathy Bates, Sherry Cola, and Liza Koshy in an untitled Netflix romcom from Richard LaGravenese (Freedom Writers, Beautiful Creatures). The plot focuses on what happens when an unexpected romance triggers comedic consequences for a young woman, her mother, and her boss. As the characters explore the complications of love, sex, and identity, they find themselves in one impossible situation after the next.

Are you excited about Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness? Are you shocked by the amount of Sheridan shows streaming or coming to Paramount+? I know I am. When does Sheridan sleep? Inquiring minds want to know.