As the era of “peak TV” continues, plenty of movie stars are making the leap to series television. Click on to see some of the biggest names who’ve made the jump.
Woody Allen, the famously neurotic “Manhattan” filmmaker, may not seem like a TV guy. But his comedy “Crisis in Six Scenes” premiered on Amazon – with costar Miley Cyrus.
Anthony Hopkins is the Oscar-winning eminence behind such prestige films as “The Remains of the Day” and “Silence of the Lambs.” But he came to TV as Robert Ford, the ominous creator of the creepy amusement park in HBO’s “Westworld.”
A huge star of 1990s cinema, Winona Ryder returned as the spooked mom in Netflix’s “Stranger Things.”
“X-Men” film star James Marsden got his start in TV shows like “Touched by an Angel.” He also turned up in “Westworld,” playing gunslinger Teddy Flood.
John Travolta is another movie star who started out on TV, on the ’70s sitcom hit “Welcome Back Kotter.” He returned to TV to play attorney Robert Shapiro in FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson.”
Evan Rachel Wood rose to prominence playing a troubled girl in “Thirteen” and became an indie-movie queen. She played the heroine Dolores in “Westworld.”
Paul Giamatti specializes in twitchy, over-the-top characters in films such as “Sideways” and “Cinderella Man.” On Showtime’s “Billions,” he played a driven U.S. attorney battling white-collar criminals.
You know Luke Wilson mainly from movies like “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Idiocracy.” It’s likely to stay that way, since his Showtime series “Roadies” didn’t find many fans.
Zach Galifianakis, star of “The Hangover” movie series, didn’t play it safe with his TV transfer. He played a rodeo clown on FX’s offbeat comedy series “Baskets.”
You’ve seen Isabella Rossellini in movies like “Blue Velvet” and “Joy,” but in 2016 she turned up as a main cast member in the Hulu drama “Shut Eye.”
And finally, another “Westworld”-er: British actress Thandie Newton, well-known for such films as “Mission: Impossible II” and “Crash,” stars as Maeve Millay, the madam of the amusement park in the sci-fi series.
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