EXCLUSIVE: Tovah Feldshuh (Nobody Wants This, Funny Girl), Loretta Devine (P-Valley, Kingdom Business), Tyler Perez (Abbott Elementary, Rescue: High Surf) and Paul Ben-Victor (Nobody Wants This, The Wire) have joined Peacock’s upcoming South Florida-set crime drama M.I.A. from Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque. The quad will appear as recurring guest stars.
They join previously announced series regulars Shannon Gisela, Brittany Adebumola, Dylan Jackson, Maurice Compte, Danay Garcia, Cary Elwes, Gerardo Celasco, and Marta Milans, and guest stars Edward James Olmos, Billy Burke, and Sonia Braga.
Running drugs is a family affair for Etta Tiger Jonze (Gisela) in M.I.A. But when the family business is threatened, she is thrust into a life she never expected, forcing her to use her wits to survive as she navigates Miami’s criminal underground.
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MIA is the airport code for Miami. The SoFla area includes Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe counties.
The series comes from studio MRC (Poker Face), with Karen Campbell (Outlander, Dexter) serving as executive producer and showrunner. Alethea Jones (High Potential, Mrs. Davis) will direct and executive produce. Dubuque will write Episode 101 and executive produce alongside Campbell and Jones, who will also direct.
M.I.A. is the latest series to explore SoFla’s seedy underbelly including Chris Brancato’s Hotel Cocaine—based on Compte’s father’s life— for MGM+ and two Netflix series: the Sofia Vergara-led Griselda and the early seasons of Narcos focused on Pablo Escobar, both with executive producers including Eric Newman, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard. Narcos was co-created by Brancato. Showtime’s original Dexter series is famously set in Miami, as is its Paramount+ with Showtime prequel spinoff series Dexter: Original Sin.
Feldshuh is repped by Stewart Talent and Luber Roklin Entertainment; Devine is repped by Innovative Artists Agency and Essential Talent Management; Perez is repped by Gersh and Established Artists; Ben-Victor is repped by Verve and Alan Siegel Entertainment.
