Apple TV+’s trailer for Lady in the Lake opens with a voice-over by Emmy nominee Moses Ingram, revealing that while she was alive she was Cleo Johnson. “But in my death, I became the Lady in the Lake.” The nearly three-minute trailer shows Oscar winner Natalie Portman as the desperately unsatisfied woman who found Cleo’s body.
The limited series, based on Laura Lippman‘s bestseller, also stars Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison, and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
“When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Portman), a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Ingram), a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family,” reads Apple TV+’s synopsis. “Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger.”
Alma Har’el created the series and serves as director, executive producer, and writer. Natalie Portman, Christopher Leggett, Sophie Mas. Nathan Ross, and the late Jean-Marc Vallée also executive produce. Additional executive producers include Layne Eskridge, Amy Kaufman, Boaz Yakin, and author Lippmann. The series is produced by Crazyrose and Bad Wolf America.
Lady in the Lake premieres on July 19, 2024 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes stream on Fridays.
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