Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell join cast for LGBT miniseries

Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell join cast for LGBT miniseries
Dustin Lance Black When we rise
Dustin Lance Black

The ABC miniseries When We Rise, created by the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, Dustin Lance Black, adds four new stars to the cast.

Emmy award winners Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell join as San Francisco Health Department’s first openly gay employee and as a co-founder of the first lesbian organization in the U.S., respectfully.

Also new to the cast are American Horror Story’s Dennis O’Hare as the Democratic party organizer Jim Foster and Frasier’s David Hyde Pierce as the father of gay rights activist Cleve Jones. The four Hollywood stars join an already star-packed cast led by Iron Man 3’s Guy Pierce and Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker. Black is joined by Milk director Gus Van Sant as executive producers. Van Sant will also direct the premiere episode of the seven-part miniseries.

No broadcast date has been announced yet.

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