Brotherhood’s Annabeth Gish to star in movie adaptation of Patricia Cornwell best-seller

In her life after Brotherhood’s cancellation, actress Annabeth Gish has signed on for a Lifetime project based on the books of  best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell.

Gish, shown here with her son at a celebrity carnival in LA to benefit the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, will play Special Agent Delma Sykes of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, who assists Massachusetts investigator Win Garano as he tries to solve  a cold case.

The films, based on the books At Risk and The Front, also star Andie MacDowell (Sex, Lies and Videotape), Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me), Diahann Carroll (Grey’s Anatomy) and Ashley Williams (Saving Grace). Lifetime has yet to announce a run date for the movies.

Gish’s other credits include series such as The X-Files and The West Wing, made-for-TV movies such as Murder on Her Mind, Candles on Bay Street, Stephen King’s Desperation, and True Women, co-starring Angelina Jolie. She also has appeared in films such as Mystic Pizza, Beautiful Girls and Double Jeopardy.

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