“Underground” has cast Sadie Stratton in a recurring role for Season 2 as real-life slave catcher Patty Cannon, TheWrap has learned exclusively.
Stratton takes over the role from Brigid Brannagh, who played Cannon in the Season 1 finale of the WGN America drama.
Cannon was a leader of the infamous Cannon-Johnson Gang, who would kidnap free blacks and fugitive slaves to sell them into slavery in the South. Cannon died in prison after being convicted of killing four black children. She is suspected of having committed up to a dozen murders.
Stratton has an extensive career in film and television.