Deadline confirms that Phylicia Rashad has been set to play Beth’s mother This Is Us.
The Cosby Show alum has been tapped to guest star in NBC’s hit drama as Carol, mother of Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson). She will star in the forthcoming episode 13 that delves into Beth’s past.
We had conversations with them telling the direction we were going in, what Beth was like in the past and what’s going to happen for her in the future, that type of thing,” Watson told TVLive. “We have a really great new writer Eboni Freeman, [who is] the main writer on it, and some of it is her story, very personal to her. They found a way to create this really beautiful backstory, and a beginning of a resolution of Beth starting to get back on her footing again. And then we have some amazing surprises in it. It’s going to be a really powerful episode.”
Two-time Emmy winner Rashad joins previous guest stars on the series including, Katey Sagal, Sylvester Stallone, Jane Kaczmarek, Denis O’Hare, Sam Trammell, Seth Meyers, and Katie Couric.