“Friday Night Lights” and “Nashville” star Connie Britton is set to play Faye Resnick on FX’s upcoming miniseries “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” creator Ryan Murphy announced on Monday via Twitter.
The interior designer was a friend of O.J. Simpson’s murdered ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. The real Resnick has subsequently appeared on several episodes of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
Britton joins John Travolta, Courtney B. Vance, Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding Jr. and David Schwimmer on the anthology project. As previously reported by TheWrap, Travolta will portray Robert Shapiro; Law & Order: Criminal Intent” alum Vance is Johnnie Cochran; Schwimmer takes on Robert Kardashian; “American Horror Story’s” Paulson plays Marcia Clark; Gooding Jr.