Naomi Watts and Paul Kelly Added to Cast of American Love Story

Ryan Murphy has reportedly found his Jackie Kennedy and John F. Kennedy for his American Love Story anthology series.Naomi Watts will star as Jackie Kennedy in the first season of American Love Story for FX. Newcomer Paul Kelly has also landed a role in the series. He will play Jackie's son, John F. Kennedy. Sarah Pidgeon was previously announced to play Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.



FX and 20th Television, where Murphy has an overall deal with Disney, declined to comment on the casting news. American Love Story will chronicle the whirlwind courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bessette-Kennedy.

Murphy’s latest anthology series will chronicle famous romances that have captured the attention of the world. John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bessette-Kennedy, who worked as a publicist for Calvin Klein, were considered American royalty in the 1990s.

But their celebrated love story and marriage began to fizzle under the constant attention of the tabloid press. The pressures of their careers and Kennedy family ties ended in tragic death in 1999 when John F. Kennedy Jr.’s private plane crashed into the ocean off the coast of Massachusetts.

Murphy also expanded the American Story universe with another new franchise, American Sports Story. The first season of this series, which reexamines a major event involving a sports figure through the prism of the present-day world and told from multiple perspectives, focused on former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.