Juliet Rylance will be joining Clive Owen in the Cinemax 10-part series, THE KNICK, directed by Steven Soderbergh and set to begin production in New York in late September, as reported by Deadline Hollywood. For the article, click here.

Academy Award winner and Emmy nominee Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic," "Side Effects," HBO's "Behind the Candelabra") will direct Academy Award and Emmy nominee Clive Owen ("Children of Men," HBO's "Hemingway & Gellhorn") in the entire ten-episode season of the CINEMAX original series THE KNICK.

Set in downtown New York in 1900, THE KNICK centers on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who push the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. The writing team of Jack Amiel and Michael Begler ("Raising Helen," "Big Miracle"), who wrote the pilot for the series, will serve as executive producers along with Soderbergh, Owen, Michael Sugar ("Rendition") and Gregory Jacobs ("Behind the Candelabra"). Michael Polaire ("Behind the Candelabra") produced. Kary Antholis, president, HBO Miniseries and CINEMAX Programming, and David Levine, vice president, HBO Entertainment, will oversee the series which will debut on the network in 2014.

Theatre includes: Rosalind in As You Like It and Miranda in The Tempest (The Bridge Project: BAM, Old Vic Theatre, London and International Tour; dir. Sam Mendes) - Obie Award for Best Actress for Rosalind. For Classic Stage Company: Irina in Three Sisters, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, and Sasha in Ivanov. For Theatre For A New Audience: Desdemona in Othello - Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. For Shakespeare's Globe, London: Perdita in The Winter's Tale and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida. Medea in Neil LaBute's Bash: Latterday Plays (Trafalgar Studios, West End); Mary Sidney in I Am Shakespeare (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK Tour); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic Theatre); Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Middle Temple Hall, London).

Film includes: Sinister (dir. Scott Derrickson); Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach); Days and Nights (dir. Christian Camargo); The Fall (dir. Rick Rodgers); Animal (Studio Canale).

Television includes: Steven Soderbergh's upcoming Cinemax series The Knick; Marie Curie in Mystery of Matter (PBS).

Juliet lives between New York and London.

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