24 actor Kiefer Sutherland has lined up a presidential position in a brand new TV sequence, as he has signed as much as play the thirty second US President, Franklin D Roosevelt, in Showtime sequence The First Girl.

The drama sequence will inform the tales of ladies who’ve been on the coronary heart of the White Home, revealing the non-public and political lives of three First Women by means of interweaving storylines.

Selection experiences that Jack Bauer star Sutherland will painting Roosevelt, who led the USA from 1933 till his loss of life in 1945. He’s the one US President in historical past to have served for greater than two phrases and is thought for constructing the New Deal Coalition.

Sutherland has expertise sitting within the Oval Workplace as he beforehand performed a fictional US President named Tom Kirkman within the drama sequence Designated Survivor.

The Crown and The X-Information actress Gillian Anderson will star within the sequence as Franklin’s spouse Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the longest-serving First Girl in US historical past and who had an lively political profession each throughout and after her time within the White Home.

The First Girl will even concentrate on a more moderen presidential couple within the type of Barack and Michelle Obama, with The Suicide Squad actress Viola Davis set to play Michelle and Black Widow actor O-T Fagbenle taking over the position of the forty fourth President.

The present will even function thirty eighth President Gerald Ford, who shall be performed by London Has Fallen star Aaron Eckhart. His spouse Betty Ford is ready to be performed by Ant-Man and the Wasp star Michelle Pfeiffer, whereas their daughter Susan Ford shall be performed by As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood actress Dakota Fanning.

The First Girl shall be written and govt produced by Aaron Cooley, with The Undoing director Susanne Bier set to direct and govt produce. Viola Davis can also be among the many govt producers.

Sutherland just lately signed up for one more TV venture during which he’ll be returning to the spying world, taking part in non-public espionage operative James Weir.

The sequence will see James in the course of a battle over the preservation of democracy in a world fraught with misinformation and surveillance.

24​ is on the market to obtain and maintain through Amazon Prime Video and can also be streaming on Disney+.