‘barkskins’: kaniehtiio horn, zahn mcclarnon, lily sullivan & david wilmot join nat geo drama series based on book

EXCLUSIVE: KANIEHTIIO HORN (_Letterkenny, Man in the High Castle, Mohawk_), ZAHN MCCLARNON (_Dr. Sleep, Westworld, Fargo_), LILY SULLIVAN (_Picnic At Hanging Rock, Mental, Jungle_) and DAVID

WILMOT (_The Alienist, Calvary, Genius: Picasso_) are set as series regulars opposite David Thewlis in _Barkskins_, National Geographic’s scripted drama series based on the 2016 bestselling

novel of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. The series hails from Elwood Reid and Fox 21 TV Studios. Created by Reid, _Barkskins_ follows a disparate group of outcasts who must

navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization—1600s New France—where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast

against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America. Horn will play Mari, a Wendat Nation woman married to Trepagny (Thewlis) and her alliance with him keeps both the French and Wendat

communities safe from a mutual enemy. WATCH ON DEADLINE McClarnon will portray Yvon, a Harvard educated First Nations Hudson’s Bay Company man. Unlike his less experienced colleagues, he

suffers no illusions about the extent of the Company’s brutality. Sullivan is Delphine, a hopeful and devoted Fille Du Roy, a real program where young French women got to pick a husband (of

their choosing) to populate and settle the new land. Wilmot will play Captain Bouchard, the king’s local law man. He tangles with all the town’s players and often with his own moral code. In

addition to Thewlis, the four join previously announced cast Marcia Gay Harden, Christian Cooke, James Bloor, Aneurin Barnard, Thomas Wright, and Tallulah Haddon. Reid will executive

produce along with Scott Rudin, Garrett Basch, Eli Bush, and David Slade, who will also direct. The first season is now in production in Quebec City and will premiere on National Geographic

globally in 172 countries and 43 languages. Proulx is the author of eight books including the novels_ The Shipping News _and the story collection_ Close Range,_ which included _Brokeback

Mountain_, originally published in The New Yorker. Horn is repped by Authentic Talent & Literary Management, Amanda Rosenthal Talent Agency and attorney Ryan Nord. McClarnon is repped by

Amsel, Eisenstadt, Frazier & Hinojosa Inc. Sullivan is repped by RGM Artists and ICM Partners. Wilmot is repped by Hamilton Hodell.