Oscar winner Hilary Swank has joined the cast of Yellowjackets for season three.
The actor, who is known for her role as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid, will appear as a recurring guest star in the upcoming season – which is currently filming in Vancouver.
According to Deadline, Swank will arrive during the latter stages of the season, though specific details of who she'll play have yet to be revealed.
The news comes after Community star Joel McHale was announced as a guest actor for season three.
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Swank has won two Academy Awards for her roles in Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). She has also starred in Alaska Daily, Away and The Good Mother.
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The actor most recently appeared in Jon Gunn's drama Ordinary Angels, opposite Reacher star Alan Ritchson.
The film is inspired by the real-life heroic deeds of a local hairdresser, who rallies her community to help a widowed father who is trying to save the life of his critically ill daughter.
Yellowjackets centres around a promising high school girls football team who survive a plane crash deep in the remote wilderness in Canada. The series chronicles the group as they are stranded in the woodland, while also tracking how they've pieced their lives back together 25 years later.
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Speaking recently to Digital Spy, Christina Ricci, who plays the adult version of Misty Quigley on the show, revealed that much of season three's plot had been kept under wraps ahead of filming.
"I really don't know that much," she said. "Working on the show, we kind of find out just a little bit before we film. So, I actually don't really know exactly what's in store for Misty."
Ricci continued: "Everybody on the cast, the second we get the scripts we immediately read them. No matter where I am I'll pick it up and scan.
"It's fun to be involved in something that people in general are curious and fascinated by."
Yellowjackets airs on Showtime in the US and Paramount+ in the UK.
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