Hacks Season 3 Cast Adds Back To The Future Star, 5 More

By Brennan Klein

Published Feb 29, 2024

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Summary

Hacks season 3 adds six stars to its guest cast.
The new guest stars are Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Bucatinsky, George Wallace, and Tony Goldwyn.
The characters that the guest stars will be playing are currently unknown.

Hacks has added a cavalcade of new guest stars for its season. The HBO dramedy, which has already aired two seasons, follows an unlikely friendship that forms when Las Vegas comedy icon Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) hires the considerably younger Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) as a writer to help revive her act. The show, which also stars Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Megan Stalter, and Paul W. Downs, has become a major critical success, winning six Emmys and two Golden Globes so far.

Per Variety, the cast of Hacks season 3 is growing. Six new guest stars have been added, namely Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Bucatinsky, George Wallace, and Tony Goldwyn. The characters that the actors will be playing are currently unknown. They a cast that already includes Lorenza Izzo, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Rose Abdoo, and Mark Indelicato, in addition to Smart, Einbinder, Downs, Stalter, and Clemons-Hopkins.

Where You Know the New Hacks Guest Stars

The Hacks cast has pulled off quite a coup with this new slate of guest stars. The new stars ing the show for season 3 are decorated actors who have had long careers both on television and on the big screen. In fact, between them, the new guest stars have won eight Emmys, four Golden Globes, and one Oscar out of a plethora of nominations. Below, check out which major nominations and awards the incoming actors have earned:

Name	Emmys	Golden Globes	Oscars
Dan Bucatinsky	7 noms, 1 win (Scandal)	N/A	N/A
Christopher Lloyd	3 noms, 3 wins (Avonlea, Taxi x2)	N/A	N/A
Helen Hunt	8 noms, 4 wins (Mad About You x4)	8 noms, 4 wins (Mad About You x3, As Good As It Gets)	2 noms, 1 win (As Good As It Gets)
Christina Hendricks	6 noms	N/A	N/A

Outside of their award-winning performances, each cast member has starred in their fair share of high-profile titles. This includes Christopher Lloyd's stints as Doc Brown in the iconic Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and Uncle Fester in the live-action Addams Family movies. Other iconic roles from this cast include Helen Hunt's turn as Dr. Jo Harding in Twister and Christina Hendricks' long-running role as Joan on AMC's Mad Men.

Tony Goldwyn has a similarly rich vein of titles ranging from Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI to Oppenheimer, while Dan Bucatinsky has appeared in a variety of genres including comedies like The Comeback to dramas including 24: Legacy. George Wallace has also played many roles throughout his career, including a trio of mayors in Batman Forever, Little Nicky, and Hubie Halloween. The fact that such a varied and talented cast has boarded the show should dispel any doubt that the show can keep going strong after the climactic Hacks season 2 ending.

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Source: Variety