Uzo Aduba Set to Star in Shonda Rhimes' Next Big Hit Series

The new murder mystery unravels 'a screwball whodunnit' set in the White House.

Uzo Aduba is headed back to Netflix studios.

The award-winning actress, who most recently starred in HBO’s reimagining of In Treatment and voiced Alisha Hawthorne in Angus MacLane’s Lightyear, is confirmed to lead the new Shondaland murder mystery series on the streamer: The Residence.

As Deadline first reported, the eight-episode series is based on Kate Andersen Brower’s book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House and has been described as “a screwball whodunnit set in the upstairs, downstairs, and back stairs of the White House, among the eclectic staff of the world’s most famous mansion.”

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The show follows the tale of one eccentric detective (Aduba) as the aftermath of a deadly State Dinner unfolds through the location's 132 rooms and 157 attendees-turned-suspects.

Aduba, best known for her two-time Emmy and SAG-winning role as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on Orange Is the New Black and her Emmy-winning portrayal of Shirley Chisolm on Mrs. America, will play Cordelia Cupp. Cupp is a consulting detective for the Metropolitan Police Department with extraordinary observation skills and a peculiar style.

Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Inventing Anna) and Betsy Beers (How to Get Away With Murder, Station 19, Bridgerton) have been named executive producers of the series, written by showrunner Paul William Davies (For the People), with Liza Johnson (The Last of Us, The Diplomat) set to direct the first four episodes.  

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Other information about the series, like its expected release date, the entire cast lineup, or who will direct the last four episodes, has not yet been announced.