Noomi Rapace And ‘House Of Cards’ Actor Michael Kelly Join ‘Jack Ryan’ Season 2 Cast
By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 2, 2018 2:15 pm EST
First up, Noomi Rapace, of original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo fame, will play Harriet “Harry” Baumann, a “highly capable, sharply intelligent and intoxicatingly charming BND (Germany’s Secret Intelligence) agent, who crosses paths with Jack Ryan in South America.” That’s quite a description! Just once, I’d like someone to call me intoxicatingly charming. Rapace’s career has been a bit all over the place – she appears in high art dramas, and also things like Netflix’s Bright. In short, she likes to work, and she almost always turns in a memorable performance.
Next, we have Michael Kelly, who is portraying Mike November, “a smart, seasoned career field officer in the CIA who works with both Jack Ryan and Jim Greer across the new season.” Kelly is one of those dependable character actors who has been around for a while, but he broke out in a big way playing the creepy-yet-conflicted Doug Stamper on House of Cards.
Finally, John Hoogenakker is taking on the role of Matice, “a tough and salty American who works black ops for the CIA. At first skeptical of what appears to be a desk-jockey, he quickly develops a new respect for Jack Ryan after seeing him handle himself in the field.” I’m not familiar with Hoogenakker, but he’s appeared in several TV shows, including Empire, Colony and The Girlfriend Experience.
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
