Casting Couch: Facinelli Pulled into "Damages"

Peter Facinelli's latest pilot (Showtime's Insatiable) may have died on the vine, but the actor has found a new role in one of the season's most eagerly anticipated new series.

Facinelli will play the recurring role of Gregory Malina in FX's new legal thriller Damages, which stars Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Tate Donovan, and Ted Danson.

Facinelli will play a man who gets enmeshed in Patty Hewes (Glenn Close)'s case against corporate behemoth Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) when he has an affair with a key witness in the case.

Damages, from Sony Pictures Television, kicks off on FX on July 24th at 10 pm.