Francesca Scorsese has landed her biggest role yet, joining the cast of Amazon Prime Video. Mr. and Mrs. Smith for its second season.
Martin Scorsese’s 26-year-old daughter has been cast as Jane Smith in the upcoming series, which is currently filming in Los Angeles.
She joins returning leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine, along with new additions Mark Eydelshteyn and Talia Ryder.
Glover, who co-created the show with Francesca Sloane, will also direct some of the new episodes.
Plot details and release date remain under wraps for now.
The casting is a significant step for Scorsese, who has been steadily building a career on screen for several years. She made her film debut as a child in her father’s 2004 biopic. the aviatorand went on to make brief appearances in The deceased and hugo.
Most recently she took on a lead role in the HBO coming-of-age series. We are who we areand has appeared in Christmas Eve at Miller’s Point and this year’s roommates.
He has also worked behind the camera, directing short films and a 2025 episode of Martin Scorsese presents: The Saints.
She has been refreshingly candid about the advantages that come with her last name.
“Of course I have an advantage in many things, I’m very lucky,” she said. nylon magazine in 2024, before adding with disarming self-awareness: “I’m just trying to be the best nepo baby I can be.”
Her path into the industry, according to herself, was never really in doubt.
Growing up on his father’s film sets from a young age left a lasting impression on him.
“My dad always took me to set since I was very, very little and that created like an altered state of reality for me,” she said. Interview magazine.
Curiously, the only person who made him doubt was Martin himself. “The only rejection was actually from my father when I said I wanted to go into acting,” he revealed.
“That was when I was a teenager and I was going through that a little bit.”
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The first season of Mr. and Mrs. Smithinspired by the 2005 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie film, it earned a 90% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes upon its release in 2024 and earned an Emmy nomination for best drama series.
For Francesca Scorsese, it represents a considerable leap into the mainstream, something she’s clearly been working on for some time.
