Ann Dowd Starring in Thriller ‘The Undertaker’s Children’

Ann Dowd will star in “The Undertaker’s Small children.” The thriller is at this time in pre-generation. The Trade will introduce the title to purchasers at the impending 2022 Cannes Movie Sector. 

Dowd stars as a secretive undertaker forced to get in two orphans. When her sinister plan for finding rid of the children in her care is disclosed, the children strategy a daring escape and locate on their own dealing with evil forces. 

Dowd is no stranger to ratcheting up the rigidity. She is perhaps most effective acknowledged for her role as Aunt Lydia on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which she is a stern enforcer of dystopian self-control. For her effectiveness, Dowd received a Primetime Emmy Award for superb supporting actress in a drama series in 2017. This 12 months, Dowd was nominated for a BAFTA for best supporting actress for her searing operate in “Mass,” a search at the fallout from a school capturing.

“The Undertaker’s Children” will be helmed by Alex Gayner, generating his directorial debut. Gayner has served as a second unit director on films which includes “Hotel Artemis,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” and the Nicolas Winding Refn sequence “Too Old To Die Youthful. The venture will be created by Gayner, as very well as Chayah Masters and Caddy Vanasirikul of The Exchange. Natasha LePetit wrote the original script. 
  
“’The Undertaker’s Children’ is a business superior notion thriller with incredible twists and turns,” explained Nat McCormick, The Exchange’s EVP of profits and distribution. “And who improved to play this mysterious, sophisticated direct than Ann Dowd who has verified her incredible expertise portraying people ranging from the dark psyche of ‘Handmaid’s’ Aunt Lydia to the grief-stricken mother in ‘Mass.’ Audiences are likely to adore this on several levels!”

Dowd’s other roles consist of “The Leftovers,” “Hereditary,” and “Compliance,” for which she gained greatest supporting actress award from the Countrywide Board of Evaluate. She also a short while ago wrapped filming “The Independent” reverse Brian Cox and Jodie Turner-Smith, which was made and marketed by The Exchange. 
 
The Exchange 2022 Cannes line-up involves Steve Zahn, Jared Harris and John Magaro’s “LaRoy,” Kaley Cucuo and Pete Davidson’s “Meet Sweet,” and Liev Schreiber’s “Across the River and Into the Trees.”

Dowd is represented by Principal Amusement and Revolutionary Artists.