In April Patently Apple posted a report titled "Apple Orders a 10-part anthology series titled 'The Crowded Room,' a gripping anthology series that will explore the true and inspirational stories of those who have struggled and learned to successfully live with mental illness.

Today, Deadline reports that "Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried is set as the female lead opposite Tom Holland in The Crowded Room, Apple’s seasonal anthology series from A Beautiful Mind‘s Akiva Goldsman and New Regency.

Kornel Mundruczo, who directed the Vanessa Kirby-Shia LaBeouf feature Pieces of a Woman, has been tapped to direct and executive produce the first season. According to Deadline.

Seyfried is set to play Rya, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career. She cannot help but put her patients first, all the while trying to balance her life as a single mother.

Holland, who also executive produces alongside Goldman, stars in the lead role of Danny Sullivan, loosely based on Milligan, who was the first person acquitted of a crime because of multiple-personality disorder, now known as dissociative identity disorder.

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