Michael Harney joins 'Widows' cast

'Orange is the New Black' actor Michael Harney has been cast in Steve McQueen's crime thriller 'Widows'.


The 61-year-old star has joined Liam Neeson, Robert Duvall, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Colin Farrell in the film from New Regency and 20th Century Fox. The movie follows surviving widows who come together to try to finish a failed heist job after their partners are killed during a robbery.

Harney will play Sgt Fuller, a corrupt cop involved in a conspiracy. McQueen and Gillian Flynn penned the screenplay, which is based on the 1983s British miniseries.