Meet the "Watson" Cast + Sneak Peek

Meet the cast of "Watson"

Morris Chestnut is Dr. John Watson.

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Morris Chestnut, a two-time NAACP award-winning actor and producer, has enjoyed tremendous critical and commercial success as a film and television star for more than three decades. Thanks to Chestnut’s illustrious career, the actor received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Motion Picture category in 2022. Currently, Chestnut is the lead of the new CBS drama series WATSON and also serves as an executive producer.

In 2023, Chestnut won his second NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Peacock’s hit series “The Best Man: The Final Chapters.” His impressive list of television credits includes series regular roles on Showtime’s NURSE JACKIE (for which he earned his first NAACP Image Award), FX’s “American Horror Story,” Fox’s “Rosewood” and “The Resident,” as well as Amazon’s “Goliath,” TNT’s “Legends” and Hulu’s “Reasonable Doubt.”

On the feature film front, Morris burst onto the scene with his critically acclaimed performance as Ricky in John Singleton’s “Boyz n the Hood.” He went on to become one of the most bankable leading men for Sony Screen Gems, starring in eight films for the studio over two decades. Due to Chestnut’s loyal fan base, the majority of those films opened #1 or #2 at the opening weekend box office.

Additional past studio feature film credits include “The Best Man,” “Identity Thief,” “Kickass 2,” “The Best Man Holiday,” “Like Mike,” “G.I. Jane,” “Ladder 49,” “The Game Plan,” “The Brothers,” “Two Can Play That Game,” “Not Easily Broken,” “Think Like a Man,” “The Perfect Guy,” “When the Bough Breaks,” “The Call” and “Girls Trip.”

Chestnut is also a seasoned producer. His production banner MC8 Entertainment currently has projects in various stages of development and production at Netflix, BET Studios and CBS Studios. Previous feature films Chestnut has produced include “Takers” starring Idris Elba, “Spell” starring Omari Hardwick and Sony’s “Not Easily Broken.”

Rochelle Aytes is Dr. Mary Morstan.

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Rochelle Aytes is a Hollywood veteran with a storied career of more than 20 years that spans drama, comedy and even dance.

Aytes received her big break with a series of major studio films. In the summer of 2004, she made her big-screen debut in a leading role, playing the love interest of Shawn Wayans in the hit comedy “White Chicks.” She also appeared in “Trick or Treat” opposite Anna Paquin and took on the lead female role in Tyler Perry’s “Madea’s Family Reunion,” opposite Blair Underwood, Tyler Perry and Boris Kodjoe. Additional film credits include “Magic Camp” opposite Adam Devine, Gillian Jacobs and Jeffrey Tambor, as well as Hallmark’s “A Christmas Tree Grows in Colorado” and “Redemption in Cherry Springs.” Aytes also starred in and produced the feature “The Men in My Life” for UMC, loosely based on her life.

Aytes has a long list of TV credits, including as a series regular on such shows as “Mistresses,” S.W.A.T., “Work It,” “The Forgotten,” “Drive” and “The Purge.” She has also recurred on countless shows, including “Heart Strings,” “Designated Survivor,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Detroit 187” and “Monarch,” as well as CRIMINAL MINDS and HAWAI’I FIVE-O on the Network.

A native of New York, Aytes’ first love was ballet. As a trained ballet dancer, she appeared with Ballet Hispanico, as well as the national tour and Broadway cast of “Aida.” Fueled by her growing passion to pursue acting, she quickly built up an impressive commercial resume and parlayed that into an even more impressive film and TV career.

Inga Schlingmann is Sasha Lubbock

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Inga Schlingmann is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan and Germany. She attended NYU, where she was pre-med and majored in art history, with minors in chemistry and psychology. She joins the new CBS medical drama WATSON as Sasha on the heels of playing Susan Yang for two seasons on SO HELP ME TODD, which also aired on the Network.

While at NYU, Schlingmann was crowned Miss Manhattan, with a platform focused on lowering infant and maternal mortality rates. After NYU, she worked with AmeriCorps as a birth doula and lactation aide for underserved and undocumented women in Brooklyn.

Schlingmann left healthcare to work at Bloomberg LP and later went on to work for LinkedIn, where she was a senior account director when she landed her role on SO HELP ME TODD.

Ritchie Coster is Shinwell Johnson

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Coster’s major television credits include the “Law & Order” franchise, “Sex and the City,” “Kidnapped,” “The Blacklist,” “Shades of Blue,” CSI, BILLIONS, “The Flight Attendant,” “The Walking Dead” and, most recently, TULSA KING.

Coster has appeared in films such as “The Sentinel,” “American Gangster” and “The Dark Knight.” He starred with Chris Hemsworth and Viola Davis in Michael Mann’s “Blackhat,” as well as “Creed” with Sylvester Stallone. Coster made his starring film debut in “The Tuxedo” opposite his boyhood idol, Jackie Chan.

Coster’s theatrical credits include the title role in “Macbeth,” “The Cherry Orchard,” Teddy Lloyd in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” opposite Cynthia Nixon, as well as “Six Degrees of Separation,” “The Lonely Few,” “Blue Ridge,” “Capsule” and “Lessons in Survival.”

Coster was born and raised in London, England, where he received his training at Guild Hall School of Music and Drama.

Peter Mark Kendall stars as twins Dr. Stephens Croft & Dr. Adam Croft

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Previously, Kendall could be seen in series such as “Strange Angel,” “Girls,” “The Americans,” “Chicago Med” and “Awkwafina…from Queens.” He also appeared in EVIL and THE GOOD FIGHT on Paramount+, as well as BLUE BLOODS on the Network. Most recently, he starred in Netflix’s limited series “Kaleidoscope.”

In film, Kendall appeared in TOP GUN: MAVERICK, “Entangled,” “Time Out of Mind,” “Louder Than Bombs,” “The Ticket” and “The Scottish Play.” He can next be seen in the upcoming film “The History of Sound.”

Across theater, Kendall has starred in various off-Broadway and Broadway shows such as “Six Degrees of Separation,” “The Lonely Few,” “Blue Ridge,” “Capsule” and “Lessons in Survival.”

Kendall received his M.F.A. in acting at Brown University/Trinity Rep. He is a founding member of the theatre collective The Commissary and is in the duo-band Hickory, which recently released their second album, batten down the hatches.

Eve Harlow is Dr. Ingrid Derian

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Harlow’s career began in Canada, where her love for film and theater was encouraged by her mother, who had been an actor in the Moscow theatre. She actively pursued acting, and by the age of 19, Harlow had won a Leo Award and been nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series at the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly known as the Geminis).

Harlow has built up an impressive and diverse resume. She was a fragile, torn-between-loyalties love interest on the CW series “The 100”; a rebellious secret agent in the NBC series “Heroes: Reborn”; a renegade desperately trying to survive in a morbid dystopia in Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”; and a tormented recovering drug addict in Paramount’s INSTANT FAMILY.

Most recently, Harlow played Ellen, the sadistic hitwoman in Shawn Ryan’s series “The Night Agent” for Netflix. She can also be seen in the final season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY as Moll, a highly intelligent and dangerous outlaw.