Martha Plimpton and Mireille Enos Join Mark Ruffalo-Led HBO Drama ‘Task’

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12 November 2024 at 1:45 pm·2-min read

Martha Plimpton and Mireille Enos have joined the cast of “Task,” an upcoming HBO drama series starring Mark Ruffalo.

Set in the working class suburbs outside of Philadelphia, “Task” follows Tom (Ruffalo), an FBI agent leading a task force meant to tend to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Tom Pelphrey).

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Plimpton plays Kathleen McGinty, the FBI supervisory senior resident in charge who recruits Tom to lead the task force just as she learns that she is being forced to retire, while Enos plays Tom’s wife, Susan Brandis. The pair married young, which is the reason Tom left the priesthood.

Plimpton’s credits include films like “The Goonies” (1985), “The Mosquito Coast” (1986) and “Parenthood” (1989), as well as the 2010-2014 Fox sitcom “Raising Hope.” More recently, she has appeared in the 2021 film “Mass” and the HBO series “The Regime,” which aired earlier this year. She is repped by Innovative Artists and Markham, Froggatt and Irwin.

Enos is best known for starring in AMC’s “The Killing” from 2011 to 2014. She has also starred in Amazon Prime Video’s “Hanna” (2019-2021) and Amazon and BBC Two’s “Good Omens” (2019-present). Up next, she’ll appear in Season 5 of “For All Mankind” on Apple TV+. She is repped by CAA, Howard Green Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher.

Along with Ruffalo, Pelphrey, Plimpton and Enos, the cast of “Task” includes Emilia Jones, Thuso Mbedu, Raúl Castillo, Jamie McShane, Sam Keeley, Fabien Frankel, Alison Oliver as Lizzie, Owen Teague as Peaches, Dominic Colón, Margarita Levieva, Raphael Sbarge, Mickey Sumner, Brian Goodman, Elvis Nolasco, Colin Bates, Isaach de Bankole, Phoebe Fox, Silvia Dionicio and Coral Peña.

“Task” is written by “Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby, who executive produces alongside directors Jeremiah Zagar and Salli Richardson-Whitfield; Ruffalo; Wiip’s Paul Lee and Mark Roybal; and David Crockett. Co-executive producers include Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches.

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