The little girl and the big kid in me, is sooooo excited about playing a Disney Princess! Every girl dreams of that! If someone had told the pimply faced, 12-year-old me, that one day I would be playing a Princess on a network television show, I never would have believed it. Growing up, I always wanted to be Pocahontas, Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame or J a s m i n e in Aladdin.
Hours after the ABC series revealed at its San Diego Comic-Con panel that it’sintroducing the characters of Aladdin and Jafar (to be played by Deniz Akdeniz andCovert Affairs favorite Oded Fehr), TVLine has learned that Galavant star Karen David has been cast as Jasmine.
Akdeniz and Fehr make their debut in the Season 6 opener (airing Sunday, Sept. 25), while TVLine hears that David will first be seen in Episode 4.
David’s previous TV credits also include the BBC One drama Waterloo Road, episodes of Strike Back and Castle, and the CBBC children’s sitcom Pixelface.
The reveal of Jasmine, Aladdin and Jafar comes on the heels of a flurry of other Season 6 castings, including Giles Matthey (24: Live Another Day) as Morpheus, Craig Horner (Hindsight) as the Count of Monte Cristo and the returns of Cinderella/Ashley (played by Jessy Schram) and Dr. Archie Hopper (Raphael Sbarge).
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