Shane Johnson & Stephanie Sigman Among Cast In Netflix’s ‘Nemesis’

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix new crime drama, Nemesis, has cast its recurring cast with 8 actors: Moe Irvin (Ahsoka, FBI: International), Stephanie Sigman (Narcos, SWAT); Quincy Isaiah (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, Grassland), Jay Reeves (6888, Safety), Mike O’Malley (Heels, Snowpiercer), Khalilah Joi (Mayor of Kingstown), Shane Johnson (Power, Power Book II: Ghost) and
Siua Ikale’o (Chief of War, Hawaii).

The crime drama, created by Courtney A. Kemp and Tani Marole, is described as an action heist series in the vein of Power set in L.A., where the new series will film.

The project will reunite Kemp with Johnson, who played FBI Agent and attorney Cooper Saxe in the mothership series and its first spinoff, Power Book II: Ghost, both created by Kemp. He will bring to life the new character of Harvey in Nemesis.

Irvin plays Amos “Nightmare” Stiles; Isaiah plays Gideon ‘Deon’ Davis; Reeves plays Jamel Brinkley; O’Malley plays Detective Rick Viggiano; Sigman plays Detective Nicolette Harper; Joi plays Ella Wilder;
and Ikale’o plays Ika Manakani.

They join the previously announced cast of Matthew Law, Y’Ian Noel, Cleopatra Coleman, Tre Hale, Domenick Lombardozzi, Jonnie Park, Ariana Guerra, Gabrielle Dennis, Michael Potts, Sophina Brown, Jeff Pierre and Cedric Joe. 

Nemesis is the story of two men on either side of the law, the tale of what happens when an unstoppable force (an expert criminal), Coltrane Wilder (Noel), meets an immovable object (a brilliant police detective), Isaiah Stiles (Law). What starts as a series that aims to subvert the heist genre at every turn, amped with thrilling life-or-death stakes, family dynamics and explosive action, actually gives birth to an exploration of what drives us, sustains us, and ultimately destroys us.

In her first project with Netflix, Kemp serves as showrunner on Nemesis, which she is executive producing with Marole, Chris Selak of Kemp’s End of Episode, and Philipp Barnett. Mario Van Peebles (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) will direct and executive produce Episodes 1 and 2.