Curtiss Cook Joins ‘House of Cards’

The cast of the House of Cards series just grew by one. Curtiss Cook (Arbitrage) has signed on to the original Netflix series starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, and Kate Mara. Netflix is planning 26 episodes of the drama series.

Cook will be playing Congressman Terry Womack, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Plot: “House of Cards is an upcoming American political drama television series created by Kevin Spacey, David Fincher and Beau Willimon. The series is based on a BBC miniseries of the same name. The reboot will take place in the United States and will be produced by Media Rights Capital. The original BBC version was based on a novel from British author Michael Dobbs, exploring the “ruthless underside of British politics at the end of the Thatcher era.”