AnnaSophia Robb Joins NBC Drama Pilot ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’

AnnaSophia Robb has been cast in the lead role in the NBC drama pilot ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Variety has learned.

NBC ordered the pilot back in February. The logline reads: “Four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, become entangled in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives flourish.”

Robb will star as Alice, described as “your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams come crashing down on her. She is a long-time member of the Grosse Pointe Garden Society.”

Robb’s recent credits include season 1 of “Dr. Death” at Peacock and both “The Act” and “Little Fires Everywhere” at Hulu. Her other TV credits include “Mercy Street” and “The Carrie Diaries.” In feature films, she has starred in projects such as ‘Lansky’, ‘Words on Bathroom Walls’, ‘Soul Surfer’, ‘The Way Way Back’ and ‘Bridge to Terabithia’.

She is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Schreck Rose

Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs wrote the pilot and serve as executive producers. Bans will executive produce alongside Casey Kyber under her Minnesota Logging Company banner. Universal Television, where both Bans and Krebs have overall agreements, will produce. Maggie Kiley will direct and executive produce the pilot.

“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” is one of the few broadcast pilots ordered so far for the traditional pilot season. NBC has ordered just two other pilots this season: an untitled multi-cam starring Reba McEntire and “Suits: LA,” a spinoff of the USA Network series “Suits.”