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Kelli Garner (“Marilyn”) and Susan Sarandon (“Gladys”) star in the all-new Lifetime miniseries, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe . Photo by Danny Feld Copyright 2015 Kelli Garner ( The Aviator , Pan Am ) plays the legendary star Marilyn Monroe in Lifetime's four-hour event The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe premiering Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The miniseries, which claims to uncover many closely-guarded secrets the blonde bombshell kept from the public, also stars Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon ( Dead Man Walking , The Last of Robin Hood ) as Marilyn's biggest secret of all, her mother Gladys, long institutionalized for mental illness. Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Emily Watson ( Hilary and Jackie ) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan ( Texas Rising , Magic City ) also headline the cast while Sarandon's daughter Eva Amurri Martino ( Californication ) plays Gladys in her youth. Watson portrays Grace McKee, Marilyn's childhood gu...

Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Photo Credit: Mitch Jenkins Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been cast as a series regular in the CBS summer drama series Extant , starring Academy Award winner Halle Berry, from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studios. Morgan will play JD Richter, a roguish womanizer and a cop of the future who is a mercenary/bounty hunter. He is free-wheeling, hard-drinking and fearless, bordering on reckless, mostly because he's got nothing to lose. He is the everyman who thought he had seen everything until Molly Woods (Halle Berry) enters his life. The second season will premiere in summer 2015. Extant is a serialized mystery thriller about female astronaut Molly Woods, who discovers she has unwittingly put the human race on a path to destruction, and that she and a mysterious stranger may be the only hope for survival. Morgan’s television credits include Magic City , Grey’s Anatomy and the upcoming miniseries Texas Rising . His feature film cred...

History's eight-hour television event series Texas Rising will premiere Memorial Day 2015, it was announced today by Dirk Hoogstra, Executive Vice President and General Manager, History & H2. The series will detail the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers. "We're ecstatic with what we've seen so far from production," said Hoogstra, "I can't think of a better way to kick off summer than with a big television event that's sure to resonate with our fans." Texas Rising is produced by A+E Studios and ITV Studios America in association with Thinkfactory Media for History. Leslie Greif ( Hatfields & McCoys ) is executive producer. Two-time Oscar-nominated director Roland Joffé ( The Killing Fields ) is directing with an all-star cast including: Bill Paxton, Brendan Fraser, Ray Liotta, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olivier Martinez, Thomas Jane, Crispin Glover, Rhys Coiro, Jeremy Davies, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Christopher Mc...