Jeff Daniels Joins ‘Shrinking’ Season 3 As Jimmy’s Dad In Return To Comedy

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Jeff Daniels (The Looming Tower) has been tapped to recur opposite Jason Segel and Harrison Ford in the upcoming third season of Apple TV+’s popular comedy Shrinking.

Co-created by Segel, Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein, Shrinking follows grieving therapist Jimmy (Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own.

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In a guest arc, Daniels will play Jimmy’s father.

This marks a return to comedy for Daniels, who has worked primarily on the drama side over the past decade since the 2014 sequel to his signature comedy film with Jim Carrey, Dumb and Dumber. Shrinking is Daniels’ first major live-action comedy series role.

In addition to Segel and Ford, Shrinking‘s main cast includes Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley. The second season also featured Goldstein in a recurring role.

Shrinking is produced for Apple TV+ by Warner Bros Television, where Lawrence and Goldstein are under overall deals, and Lawrence’s Doozer Productions. Lawrence, Segel, Goldstein, Neil Goldman, James Ponsoldt, Jeff Ingold, Liza Katzer, Randall Winston, Annie Mebane, Rachna Fruchbom and Brian Gallivan were executive producers on Season 2. Ashley Nicole Black and Bill Posley serve as executive producers on Season 3.

Daniels, two-time Emmy winner for The Newsroom and Godless, recently starred in the Showtime/Prime Video drama series American Rust and in Netflix’s limited series A Man In Full. Next up, he will portray former President Ronald Reagan in the upcoming Cold War film Reykjavik. Daniels, who also is attached to star in Dilettante, a New York media drama In development at Apple TV from Berlanti Prods., is repped by LBI and Martino Management.

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