Brooke D'Orsay female lead in Smothered

Brooke D'Orsay

Brooke D'Orsay has won the lead female role in ABC comedy pilot Smothered.

The project will focus on a young couple as they deal with their two sets of very different but equally overbearing parents. Deadline reports that D'Orsay will play Gillian, the long-suffering wife of Zack (Kyle Howard). The actress recurs on USA's Royal Pains as Evan's girlfriend Paige and has previously appeared in episodes of Drop Dead Diva, How I Met Your Mother and Psych.

She joins the previously-cast Julie White and Alan Arkin, who will play Gillian's parents. Marcia Gay Harden and former Scrubs star John C. McGinley will also appear as Zack's mother and father.

Smothered has been created by Friends producers Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen.