Carmen Ejogo joins 'True Detective' season 3

Actor Carmen Ejogo has joined the cast of "

True Detective

" season three.

Ejogo will star opposite the Mahershala Ali in the new installment of the anthology drama, reported an entertainment magazine.

She will play Amelia Reardon, an Arkansas schoolteacher with a connection to two missing children in 1980.

The third season tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods.

Ali is set to play Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas.