Katie Holmes stars with Greg Kinnear in the controversial eight-part miniseries The Kennedys, premiering on ReelzChannel on April 3. Historians given early scripts to review have criticized the show (created by 24 executive producer Joel Surnow) for its tough take on the fabled clan.
Brown (Fringe, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd) starred opposite Martin Sheen (later to play a fictional U.S. president in The West Wing) in the 1983 NBC miniseries Kennedy.
Model-turned-actress Romanov played the First Lady in Thirteen Days, a Kevin Costner film about the Cuban missile crisis. (Costner played top Kennedy aide Kenneth O’Donnell in the 2000 film.)
Period-drama perennial Annis (JaneEyre, Great Expectations, Return to Cranford) took a 20th century turn in Onassis: The Richest Man in the World, a 1988 ABC TV movie which also starred Raul Julia and Jane Seymour (as Maria Callas).
Walley, who played Jacqueline as an adult in the 2000 CBS TV movie Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, played a much different sixties icon in her role as British party girl Christine Keeler in Scandal. Watch for her in Showtime’s The Borgias.
Touched by an Angel's Roma Downey played the First Lady in the 1991 NBC miniseries A Woman Named Jackie; Stephen Collins (No Ordinary Family, Private Practice) costarred.
