Marisa Tomei Joins HBO Legal Thriller "War" Sequel with New Cast Members
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Updated on May 17, 2026
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Marisa Tomei just lined up her next project on the small screen: a legal thriller for HBO.
reports that Tomei has joined the cast of War season 2, along with Boardwalk Empire's Kelly Macdonald, Homeland's David Harewood, and The West Wing's Richard Schiff. Other cast members include Claire Skinner, Omari Douglas, Kadiff Kirwan, Douglas Booth, Luca Pasqualino, Charles Edwards, Alexandra Maria Lara, Rebecca Front, Violet Braeckman, Linus Roache, Sasha Behar, Cornelius Booth, Sid Phoenix, and Megan Channell.
War season 1, which is expected to premiere sometime in 2026 on Sky in the UK and HBO in the United States, will star as a tech titan and American Sniper's Sienna Miller as a movie star. The storyline will center around their high-profile divorce.
Then the show will shift its focus in the second season to a defamation case as two rival law firms go head-to-head. Production on War season 2 has already gotten underway.
George Kay created War after working on several critically acclaimed series like Killing Eve, Lupin, and Hijack. He's also the lead writer with Kelly Jones, Catherine Shepherd, Jess Britain, Krissie Ducker, and Yemi Oyefuwa, and serves as a producer with Ben Taylor (the show's director), Willow Grylls, Matt Sandford, Susan Breen, Megan Spanjian, Imogen O'Sullivan, and Matt Carver.
in the entertainment industry when she played Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny. She went on to star in films like Chaplin, What Women Want, Anger Management, Crazy, Stupid, Love, and The Ides of March. She earned additional Oscar nominations for In the Bedroom and The Wrestler and has been honored over the years with nods at the Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, SAG Awards, and Critics' Choice Awards.
in Captain America: Civil War, which also marked Tom Holland's debut as Parker/Spider-Man. She appeared in several more MCU films, including Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
On the small screen, the Oscar-winning actor has appeared in everything from the soap opera As the World Turns and sitcom A Different World to the Denis Leary-led dramedy Rescue Me and the Lee Daniels-created drama Empire. Her most recent scripted TV appearances were in Sarah Cooper's Netflix special, Everything's Fine, Live in Front of a Studio Audience, and The Handmaid's Tale.
Now Marisa Tomei is returning to the small screen in the upcoming HBO legal thriller War. While the first season is expected to air in 2026, it hasn't been revealed yet when season 2 with Tomei will premiere.
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