The A-List Stars Who Took Their Talents to Netflix

The two-time Oscar nominee will star in the psychological thriller, Gyspy, a new one-hour original series coming to Netflix next year.



On the show, which has 10 episodes lined up, Watts will star as Jean Holloway, a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients' lives.



Watts' last major role on an American TV series was in NBC's short-lived sci-fi drama, Sleepwalkers, which debuted in 1997.

Jolie will produce and direct an adaptation of Cambodian author and human rights activist Luong Ung's book, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, about the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, for Netflix. The actress and director's eldest child, 13-year-old Maddox Jolie Pitt, whom she adopted from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002, will also be involved in the production of the film.

"I was deeply affected by Loung's book," the By the Sea director said in a statement. "It deepened forever my understanding of how children experience war and are affected by the emotional memory of it. And it helped me draw closer still to the people of Cambodia, my son’s homeland. It is a dream come true to be able to adapt this book for the screen."

Kutcher will reunite with his That '70s Show co-star Danny Masterson for The Ranch, a comedy series about a former pro football player who returns to Colorado to help run his family's ranch.

Cult comedy hit Wet Hot American Summer is getting a Netflix prequel series this July, and the Ant-Man star is one of many original cast members (almost all of whom went on to future big-screen success) returning to camp.

Poehler and Cooper will also reprise their roles as talent show coordinators Susie and Ben in the Wet Hot prequel series. 

Netflix paid $12 million for the worldwide distribution rights to this feature adaptation about child soldiers in which the Pacific Rim star plays a ruthless African warlord.

The 9 to 5 co-stars reunited for this Netflix original series about two women who struggle to rebuild their lives after their husbands come out and announce that they are in love with each other.

The Sin City star kept things dark and gritty when she signed on to play Claire Temple in the Netflix adaptation of Marvel's Daredevil.

Two of the first big-name stars to sign on for a Netflix original series were Spacey and Wright as D.C. power couple Frank and Claire Underwood on the award-winning series House of Cards.