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Dr. Death Season 2 Cast Update, News: Mandy Moore Joins Crime Dram As An Investigative Journalist


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Mandy Moore has been cast in Peacock's Dr. Death Season 2. She will co-star with Edgar Ramirez, who will play the season's lethal doctor.

Dr. Death Season 2: Mandy Moore’s Character

Moore will play reporter Benita Alexander, who meets Ramirez's Paolo Macchiarini for a story and falls in love with him. She eventually discovers that there’s more to the doctor than meets the eye.

Ramirez plays a trachea transplant surgeon so skillful and innovative that he earned the moniker "Miracle Man" in Dr. Death Season 2, which is based on the third season of the Wondery true-crime podcast of the same name.

What’s Next On Dr. Death

Christopher Duntsch, a criminally negligent spinal surgeon, was the main subject of Dr. Death's first season, which was portrayed by Joshua Jackson. The two doctors and the assistant district attorney who assisted in bringing him down were played by Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, and AnnaSophia Robb.

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First-season showrunner Patrick Macmanus will executive produce Dr. Death Season 2, with Ashley Michel Hoban taking over as showrunner for the second season.

Jennifer Morrison will direct the first four episodes of the season, with Laura Belsey directing the final four of the sophomore season.

Mandy Moore’s Acting Success

When Moore started her acting career, she had already achieved popularity as a young pop sensation. The actress recently finished a lengthy run on NBC's popular tearjerker drama This is Us, for which her character of family matriarch Rebecca Pearson won her nominations for both the Emmy and the Golden Globe. It had six seasons before ending last spring.

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She debuted in The Princess Diaries as a supporting character before making a major breakthrough in the popular Nicholas Sparks romance A Walk to Remember. She then made appearances in the ambitious sci-fi satire Southland Tales by Richard Kelly, the shark survival picture 47 Meters Down, and the WWII film Midway by Roland Emmerich.

Moore was also known for her role as Rapunzel in the Disney animated film Tangled, which she reprised in several later projects, including a spinoff cartoon series and Ralph Breaks the Internet.

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She is set to star in and produce Twin Flames, an upcoming podcast-based TV series on Hulu.

Keep an eye on Epicstream for more information about Dr. Death Season 2.


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