Tom Sizemore Joins Crash Series
Tom Sizemore by Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com
Tom Sizemore is set to
Crash onto TV screens.
The troubled actor, who spent the past year
in prison for violating a methamphetamine conviction, has nabbed a recurring role on Starz's upcoming series
Crash,
The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Sizemore will portray "unorthodox" Detective Adrian Cooper who stirs up trouble during a police-shooting investigation on the show, which is based on the
Oscar-winning film.
Already
cast in the project, which will feature a new set of intersecting characters, are Dennis Hopper, Clare Carey (
Jericho), Jocko Sims (
CSI), Ross McCall (
CSI: NY) D.B. Sweeney (
Jericho), Nick Tarabay (
The Sopranos) and Michael Fairman.
Crash will be the first original series for Starz. -
Joyce Eng
