Ashley Judd Tapped As Former CIA Agent In ABC’s “Missing”

Actress Ashley Judd — best known these days for her work in films like Where The Heart Is and High Crimes — has been cast in a new ABC drama set for premiere later this year. In what could be her first regular TV role in nearly 20 years, Judd will play a former CIA agent that journeys to Europe to find her missing son in the aptly-titled Missing, Variety dished last week.

“‘Missing’ centers on a suburban mother who, after her son disappears in Italy while studying abroad, rushes to Europe to track him down. It soon becomes clear she is no ordinary soccer mom, but a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive,” the trade paper writes.

Driving the project are screenwriter Greg Poirer, director Steve Schill, and executive producers Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo.

Judd last appeared on the small screen in the NBC family drama Sisters, in which she played Reed Halsey between 1991 and 1994. She earned an Emmy nomination for her work in the 1996 made-for-TV movie From Norma Jean to Marilyn. The star is currently shooting Dolphin Tale, opening in theaters in September.

Missing could premiere as early as this summer with a 10 episode arc.