Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart, Impeachment: American Crime Story) and Griffin Dunne (After Hours, This Is Us) will guest star on CBS‘ Elsbeth in Season 3. New episodes of Elsbeth will be released on Thursday nights, following the upcoming return on February 26.
Based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) is the astute but unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to catch New York’s well-heeled murderers, utilizing her unique perspective. Wendell Pierce also stars as Captain Charles Wallace (C. W.) Wagner.
Feldstein, who will appear in Episode 315, stars as Rachel, who attends and plans all of her friends’ milestone celebrations: baby showers, bachelorette parties, weddings, gender reveals, you name it. But when it’s finally time to celebrate her special day, her bestie isn’t there for her. The next event in her calendar might just be a funeral.
Dunne will guest star in Episode 316 as Elliott, a world-famous novelist with a massive ego and a thin skin. When a childhood acquaintance and book critic points out the flaws in Elliott’s latest opus, the plot turns deadly.
CBS Studios produces Elsbeth, which is executive produced by Robert King, Michelle King, showrunner Jonathan Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff, and Gail Barringer. The Kings co-created the series.
Feldstein recently completed filming the fourth installment of the Meet the Parents franchise, Focker In-Law. Most recently, she appeared in the fifth season of Hulu’s hit comedy series Only Murders in the Building, in the role of Althea, the nemesis of Selena Gomez’s character Mabel. Notably, she played Monica Lewinsky in Ryan Murphy’s Impeachment: American Crime Story. On the film side, she will next be seen in Maria Martinez Bayona’s feature, The End of It. Her big screen credits also include Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Film4’s How To Build A Girl, and Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird.
Dunne is best known for his roles in An American Werewolf in London and Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Up next, he can be seen in Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing alongside Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz. His TV credits include the HBO Max series The Girls on the Bus, Joey Soloway’s Amazon Studios dramedy I Love Dick, and the NBC series This Is Us. As a director, Dunne was behind the films Addicted To Love, Practical Magic, and the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary The Center Will Not Hold about his aunt Joan Didion. In June 2024, Dunne released his memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir,” which earned the designation of NY Times Best Seller.
