Matthew Perry to play Ted Kennedy in Reelz miniseries

Matthew Perry's next role is going to put him in some iconic political shoes. 

The former Friends star has been tapped by Reelz to play TedKennedy in its upcoming miniseries The Kennedys -- After Camelot, the follow up to the award winning The Kennedys, which aired in 2011. 

He's also set as an executive producer on the project. 

After Camelot will be based on the Kennedy Family biography of the same name by J. Randy Taraborrelli. 

The four-hour miniseries is set to debut on Reelz in spring 2017.

Perry will play Kennedy in the years following the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby and, according to the network, "depicts his very complicated public and private life as he tries to live up to the Kennedy family political ambition and fill a male leadership void in the family itself." 

The role will put him on screen alongside Katie Holmes, who is reprising her role as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

"We are privileged to have an actor of Matthew Perry’s stature and ability take on the role of such a complex and controversial figure as Ted Kennedy," said Executive Producer Michael Prupas, president of Muse Entertainment, who is producing the series. 

Filming is set to begin in May 2016. 

Perry, who recently missed out on NBC's Friends reunion, currently on stage in London’s West End, where he's starring in The End of Longing and returns stateside soon to begin production on the second season of CBS's The Odd Couple.  

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