EXCLUSIVE: Meta Golding (The Pitt, Ransom Canyon) has been cast as a series regular opposite Patrick Dempsey in Season 2 of Fox‘s Memory of a Killer.

Inspired by the book and 2003 award-winning Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer, Memory of a Killer stars Dempsey as Angelo Flannery/Doyle, who leads a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret, he is slowly losing his memory.

In what is currently a one-year deal, Golding will play Mel, Angelo’s (Dempsey) childhood sweetheart. A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has spent her career diving headfirst into the world’s darkest corners — and has the scars to prove it. Mel is not a delicate flower: she’s sharp, funny, direct, and constitutionally incapable of looking away from the truth. She and Angelo were childhood sweethearts, but their romance was cut short by Angelo’s tragic past. She reappears in Angelo’s life and becomes his love interest of the season – while working alongside him to avenge a tragic loss. Mel is the season’s moral engine and its emotional heartbeat — the woman who forces Angelo to reckon with who he is, what he’s done, and whether the two of them can survive what’s coming together.

Michael Imperioli also stars in Memory of a Killer, which is produced by Warner Bros Television and Fox Entertainment. Executive producers include Dempsey and showrunners Aaron Zelman and Glenn Kessler. Arthur Sarkissian and Martin Campbell also executive produce, along with Peter Bouckaert of Eyeworks.

Known for playing Rosa Parks in the NAACP-nominated film Behind the Movement, Golding recently recurred on HBO Max’s The Pitt and Netflix’s Ransom Canyon and was part of the main cast of Paramount+’s Rabbit Hole. On the film side her credits include Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. Golding is repped by Charlton Blackburne Management, Paradigm and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman.

Season 2 of Memory of a Killer is set to premiere midseason 2027 on Fox.