March 9 (UPI) -- Babel and Thor actress Adriana Barraza has joined the ensemble of Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
The cable network said in a news release that Barraza will play Maria Vega, "the powerful matriarch of the Vega family, who will go to any lengths to protect her children from the dangerous world of 1938 social politics, as well as from the chilling supernatural forces invading their lives."