Feb. 16 (UPI) —<\/span> Zoe Salda\u00f1a has joined the cast of the new Paramount+ series Lioness<\/i>.<\/p>\n The streaming service said in a press release Tuesday that Salda\u00f1a, 43, will star in and executive produce the drama.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Lioness <\/i>hails from Yellowstone <\/i>co-creator Taylor Sheridan and will feature Tom Brady as showrunner and executive producer. Nicole Kidman also serves as an executive producer.<\/p>\n Lioness<\/i> is inspired by a real-life CIA program where female soldiers would infiltrate local communities to gather intelligence. The series follows a Marine recruited to befriend the daughter of a terrorist to bring the organization down from within.<\/p>\n Salda\u00f1a will play Joe, the strong-willed, hard-nosed, station chief of the CIA’s Lioness program, tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives working to assassinate the world’s most dangerous terrorists.<\/p>\n “I am a huge fan of Taylor Sheridan’s work and am honored to help him tell his next amazing story with Lioness<\/i>,” Brady said. “Taylor has created an epic, gripping, global spy thriller centered on a group of complex, strong women, and I can’t imagine anyone better to help bring these characters to life than fellow executive producers Nicole Kidman and Zoe Salda\u00f1a.”\n<\/p>\n Sheridan also created the Yellowstone<\/i> prequel 1883<\/i> and the new sequel 1932<\/i>, which Paramount+ also announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n Salda\u00f1a is known for starring in the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/i> and Avatar<\/i> movies. Kidman’s recent TV projects include Big Little Lies<\/i>, The Undoing<\/i> and Nine Perfect Strangers<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\/5 Zoe Salda\u00f1a has joined “Lioness,” a new series from “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo Feb. 16 (UPI) — Zoe Salda\u00f1a has joined the cast of the new Paramount+ series Lioness. The streaming service said in a press release Tuesday that Salda\u00f1a, 43, will star in and executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Zoe Salda\u00f1a has joined “Lioness,” a new series from “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n