Nat Faxon Lands Title Role In Fox Comedy Pilot Ned Fox Is My Manny

Nat Faxon is around the hot streak. The actor-author, who just won an Oscar on Sunday for co-writing The Descendants along with his writing partner Jim Rash and Alexander Payne, just showed up the title role opposite Abby Elliott in Foxs single-camera comedy pilot Ned Fox Is My Manny (formerly Ben Fox Is My Manny), directed by Mike Kasdan. The project, from author Dana Fox, 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment, concentrates on an uptight single mother Kate (Elliott) whose aimless older brother Ned (Faxon) moves straight into help raise her daughter (Maggie Manley). Co-starring inside the pilot is Lucy Punch. Faxon, repped by Innovative and Principato-Youthful, can be a familiar face (and voice) at Fox. He co-starred round the network’s short-were living comedy Happy Hour and contains voiced figures on animated comedies The Cleveland Show and Allen Gregory. Faxon’s writing partner Rash can also be around the primetime comedy series, he co-stars on NBC’s Community.