Jenna Dewan Joins ‘Witches of East End’ in Wilmington

Something wicked is coming to Wilmington, North Carolina, where Jenna Dewan and Julia Ormand are set to film the pilot for Lifetime’s Witches of East End this fall.

Former star of ‘The Playboy Club’, Jenna Dewan is coming to NC as one of the ‘Witches of East End’.

StarNews reports that a 10-day shoot will take place in the region in mid-October, while TV Line recently announced the addition of Dewan in a lead role as one of Ormand’s secretly supernatural daughters.

Jenna Dewan (Step Up) will play Freya Beauchamp, described as a sexy and fearless former wild child who is suprised to learn that she and her sister Ingrid are their family’s newest generation of witches. Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall, Sabrina) plays Joanna, the mother witch, and Patrick Heusinger (Gossip Girl) will play Dewan’s rich philanthropist fiance.

Witches of East End is based on Melissa de la Cruz’s best-selling novel of the same.

Dewan can also been seen in the upcoming FX series American Horror Story: Asylum.