Kristen Bell recently led Netflix’s dark comedy The Woman in the House, and she’s gearing up for another project with a streaming giant. She landed the lead role in Erin Foster’s untitled comedy series, loosely based on her real-life experiences.
The untitled series was formerly developed under the working title Shiksa, a word of Yiddish origin for a gentile woman or girl. It will center on an irreverent, outspoken, agnostic woman (Bell) who strikes an unlikely relationship with an unconventional rabbi, drawing inspiration from Foster’s real life.
This series hails from 20th Television, and it marks the first series order at Netflix since the 20th Century Fox became a part of the Walt Disney Company. Bell and Foster will both executive produce the series with Steven Levitan, alongside Craig DiGregorio, Sara Foster, Danielle Stokdyk, plus Oly Obst and Josh Lieberman from 3 Arts.
Kristen Bell is best known for her roles in Veronica Mars and The Good Place, and her schedule had been pretty busy recently. Just last year, she starred in Netflix’s dark spoof comedy The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window. She also returned to voice Gossip Girl in the reboot of the iconic teen drama and starred alongside Allison Janney and Ben Platt in the rom-com The People We Hate at the Wedding.
