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Matthew Perry to play Ted Kennedy in REELZ miniseries 'After Camelot'

By Karen Butler
Matthew Perry -- seen in a 2012 file photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI -- will play Ted Kennedy in a TV miniseries.
Matthew Perry -- seen in a 2012 file photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI -- will play Ted Kennedy in a TV miniseries. | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, March 15 (UPI) -- Friends and The Odd Couple actor Matthew Perry has signed on to star as Ted Kennedy in the four-hour miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot, REELZ announced Tuesday.

Perry will also serve as an executive producer on the program, which is the adaptation of the book After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present by J. Randy Taraborrelli.

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The follow-up to 2011's The Kennedys is expected to premiere in spring 2017.

"Matthew Perry portrays Ted Kennedy in the years following the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby and depicts his very complicated public and private life as he tries to live up to the Kennedy family political ambition and fill a male leadership void in the family itself," the cable network said on its website. "Perry joins Katie Holmes, portraying Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who despite her desire for privacy had arguably become the most famous and admired woman in the world. Jackie's ties to the Kennedy family remained strong throughout her life and her relationship with her brother-in-law Ted grew ever closer as they constantly turned to one another for support and as confidantes."

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