Castle Heads To Beckett's Police Academy

ABC’s Castle this winter/spring will be butting heads with a Russian as well as paying a visit to the police academy where Beckett trained. And now we have two faces to put to those episodes.

TVLine has confirmed that Spartacusvet Nick E. Tarabay will guest-star in an upcoming episode as Vasily Zhirov, an agent with the Russian Diplomatic Security Service.

“We get a little Red Heat action,” co-showrunner Alex Hawley told TVLine, referring to the 1988 culture-clash comedy that paired Jim Belushi with Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We have a diplomatic security agent from Russia who comes, because there is the death of a Russian national. He’s a big character.”

Californication alum Ellen Woglom meanwhile will appear in Episode 15, which takes us to “the police academy where Beckett was a star, back before she became a cop,” Hawley says. Woglom plays a cadet with whom Kate forms “a bit of a mentor relationship.”

Since his run on Starz’ two Spartacusseries, Tarabay’s recent TV credits include Longmire, Person of Interestand Arrow (as Captain Boomerang). Woglom most recently guested on Chicago Fire/P.D. as Shay’s sister Maggie.

Source: TVLine.com