Actress Susan Sarandon will appear in the Showtime series Ray Donovan in a season-long guest arc, the network said.

Sarandon, an Oscar winner for the 1996 film Dead Man Walking, will play Samantha Winslow, the head of a motion picture studio, in the fifth season of Ray Donovan, which begins this summer. The series averaged 5.1 million viewers across platforms in season four.

Sarandon’s five Oscar nominations for lead actress are exceeded by only eight people in history (including Bette Davis, whom Sarandon plays in the limited series Feud, pictured). Her notable film work also includes Bull Durham, Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil and Atlantic City.

Ray Donovan stars Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. Read more at broadcastingcable.com.

Katie Holmes will join the third season of Showtime's hit series Ray Donovan in a significant guest-starring role.

Holmes, the TV, film and Broadway star, will portray shrewd, chic businesswoman Paige, the daughter of billionaire producer Andrew Finney (Ian McShane), who enlists Ray’s services.

The network’s second highest-rated drama series behind Homeland, Ray Donovan is currently in production in Los Angeles.

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, the series stars two-time Golden Globe nominee Liev Schreiber as L.A.’s best professional fixer, the man called in to make the city’s celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls’ most complicated and combustible situations go away.  During the second campaign, Ray’s life was disrupted when the FBI, his father Mickey (Jon Voight, in his Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning role), and his own family slip out of his control, testing his roles as protector, provider and patriarch like never before. 

The cast also includes Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Steven Bauer, Katherine Moennig, Pooch Hall, Kerris Dorsey and Devon Bagby. The third season comprises 12 episodes.