The Rookie Casts Onetime Castle Baddie Annie Wersching in a Killer Role
The Rookie will play host to another, albeit more specialized, Castle reunion when Annie Wersching pops up on the ABC procedural.
On Castle, Wersching — now a star of Marvel’s Runaways — had a short arc as Kelly Nieman, a prison doc/plastic surgeon who became infatuated with inmate Jerry Tyson (aka the serial killer known as 3XK) and went on to serve as his accomplice and lover.
Now, similarly, Wersching will guest-star on The Rookie as Rosalind Dyer, a serial killer on death row who takes a special interest in Nathan Fillion’s Officer John Nolan.
Wersching’s casting comes not long after The Rookie, as part of ABC’s “Casts From the Past” theme week, had Fillion’s Castle castmates Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas put in cameos.
In addition to Runaways (where she plays PRIDE member Leslie Dean) and her Castle arc, Wersching’s TV credits include Bosch, Timeless, The Vampire Diaries, 24 (#ReneeGoneTooSoon) and General Hospital.
The Rookie, which just got a full Season 2 order, airs Sundays at 10/9c.
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#ReneeGoneTooSoon — preach, Matt. Preach.
Amazing news. Looking forward to this.
Im a fan or wersching.. And it sounds interesting.. But damn what’s the point of the other two rookies if every important story or case or villain is tied to him…
Always found the serial killer arc on Castle annoying so I never watched her episodes. Maybe I’ll watch her on TR, but who knows. She’s tainted by her Castle past, ha-ha.
Wersching is the perfect “baddie” IMO. The best Bond movies have the best villains. Think Goldfinger or Red Grant and Rosa Klebb in “From Russia with Love.” In “Castle” the best villains were, IMO, 3XK and Dr Kelly Nieman, played by Wersching. So “Dark Side” has been my favorite “Rookie” episode of the season.
Think about this: NF and AW as a married superhero couple doing all the day-to-day stuff superheros do: saving the world, raising kids, etc. It should be a droll and scary. Could be fun.