JD Pardo is reporting for jury duty…
The 35-year-old Argentine and El Salvadoran American actor has been cast as a series regular opposite Jeremy Sisto, Archie Panjabi and Kevin Rankin in ABC’s murder trial drama pilot The Jury.
Written by VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli, The Jury examines “the ultimate social experiment” that happens thousands of times a day in the United States: a person’s fate is placed in the hands of 12 strangers.
Described as “12 Angry Men meets the podcast Serial,” the series follows a single murder trial a season as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors, exploring the biases and experiences that influence the jurors’ judgment and how their preconceptions change along the way.
Pardo, who starred in NBC’s Revolution, will portray Oscar, a U.S. Marine who signed up for the Corps straight out of high school and displays immense pride in his status as a soldier.