Tom Pelphrey Boards HBO’s Mark Ruffalo-Led Crime Drama Series From Brad Ingelsby
Tom Pelphrey (Outer Range) is set to star opposite Mark Ruffalo in the Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (w/t), currently in pre-production. Pelphrey will portray Robbie, a sanitation worker and dreamer who has been knocked around by life, but has always gotten back up again.
The series is set in the working-class suburbs outside of Philadelphia and follows an FBI agent who heads a Task Force. His goal is to put an end to a string of drug-house robberies led by an unsuspecting family man. The Untitled Task Force project is based on an original idea by the creator of Mare of Easttown, Brad Ingelsby.
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Executive producers include Brad Ingelsby (Writer/EP); Jeremiah Zagar (Director/EP); Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Director/EP); Mark Ruffalo (Star/EP); Paul Lee and Mark Roybal for wiip; David Crockett. Co-executive producers are Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches.
Pelphrey is currently in production on Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Sci-Fi neo-Western Outer Range in New Mexico alongside Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor and Lewis Pullman. Up next, he will lead A Man In Full, a Netflix limited series adaptation from Regina King and David E. Kelly of the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name.
Most recently Pelphrey starred in Max’s Love And Death, a limited series about the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. He portrayed Don Crowder, a fellow church member and extremely combative defense attorney.
Pelphrey is represented by Gersh, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
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