Bill Pullman is Oswald

Soon after unveiling the actor to play Rex, the BBC and Starz Entertainment have now revealed that US actor Bill Pullman (well-known for his roles in Independence Day and Law & Order) has been cast as the most controversial of the few new Torchwood characters to be introduced to us so far, convicted murderer Oswald Jones…

Here’s the press release:

Bill Pullman (Ruthless People, Independence Day) has signed on to star in the upcoming fourth season of Torchwood as a regular. Pullman — who joins series stars John Barrowman, Eve Myles and the just-cast Mekhi Phifer — will play Oswald Jones, a dangerously clever convicted murderer who escapes his lifelong prison sentence on a technicality and quickly becomes a media sensation. Genuinely repentant yet boiling with lust and rage, Oswald gets caught up in a terrifying worldwide crisis.

Torchwood's fourth season will air stateside on Starz in a co-production deal with BBC Worldwide Prods. Pullman's only major previous primetime gig was on NBC's 2005 limited series Revelations.

Torchwood: The New World is set for broadcast in Summer 2011, and filming will begin in January 2011.

> Oswald Jones’ official character profile

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