Tammy Blanchard cast in American Sports Story

Emmy Award winner Tammy Blanchard has been cast in a regular role on FX's American Sports Story, the new limited FX anthology series from creator Stu Zicherman.American Sports Story, a new expansion of Ryan Murphy's American Story franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today's world, telling the story from multiple perspectives.

The first season charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections between the various aspects of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and his legacy in sports and American culture.

Season one is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. and comes from the Boston Globe and Wondery.



Blanchard (pictured) will play the mother of disgraced football star and convicted murderer Terri Hernandez, we hear. 20th Television and FX declined to comment for this story.

Other cast members include Jaylen Barron, Jake Cannavale, Catfish Jean, Tony Yazbeck, Lindsay Mendez and Patrick Schwarzenegger.

In addition to Zicherman and Murphy, executive producers include Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Brad Falchuk, Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery, and Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello of the Boston Globe.

Blanchard has had series roles in Dare Me (USA Network), The Big C (HBO), Billions (Showtime) and The Good Wife (CBS). Blanchard's film roles include A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Into the Woods, Blue Jasmine, Moneyball, The Good Shepherd and Cadillac Records.