Jimmy Smits, Donald Sutherland Join NBC Pilots

According to Deadline.com, Broadway veterans Jimmy Smits and Donald Sutherland are both set to star in television pilots this season. Smits will appear in  anuntitled NBC crime drama, while Sutherland is set for NBC's My Life As an Experiment. 

Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and MASH and Kelly's Heroes in 1970, as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Ordinary People. He recently starred in the American television series Dirty Sexy Money. On Broadway he starred in LOLITA and BUCK WHITE.

Smits' stage credits include "Max" in the 1982 production of Cabaret and "Paul" in Loose Ends the same year. Smits has participated in The Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival, playing the role of Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night in 2002, and Benedick in Much Ado about Nothing in 2004. He starred as "Alan" (opposite Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, and Ken Stott) in the critically lauded Broadway play, God of Carnage, replacing Jeff Daniels.