It’s Edgar Ramirez’s undoing…

The 42-year-old Venezuelan actor have been cast opposite Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Lily Rabe and Donald Sutherland in The Undoing, HBO’s high-profile six-episode limited series written by David E. Kelley and directed by Susanne Bier.

An adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known, The Undoing centers on Grace Sachs (Kidman), who is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband (Grant) and young son (Noah Jupe) who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.

Ramirez will play Detective Joe Mendoza.

Kelley executive produces The Undoing through David E. Kelley Prods.and serves as showrunner. Bier executive produces and will direct all episodes. 

Ramirez is coming off his praised performance asGianni Versacein FX’s American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, for which he received both Emmy and Golden Globenominations. 

He’s currently in Cuba filming Wasp Network for writer/director Olivier Assayas, and has wrapped the lead in The Last Days of American Crime for Netflix, due out later this year.