Game of Thrones Star Rose Leslie Cast in Good Wife Spin-Off

LOS ANGELES: Rose Leslie, star of Game of Thrones, has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS All Access spin-off of The Good Wife.

Leslie will play Maia, Diane’s goddaughter who joins her firm just after passing the bar, and is a key part of Diane’s plan for the future. The new series, which is set for CBS’s subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, will pick up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of The Good Wife. The show will debut in February 2017.

“We’re thrilled to have Rose on board,” said executive producers Robert and Michelle King. “We needed a young actress who could hold her own with Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, and Rose is perfect. She’s real, she’s strong and she can play comedy. If we designed an actress from the ground up, we couldn’t have done better.”