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POWER BOOK III: RAISING KANAN

PREMIERE DATE: 8/14/22 | GENRE: Drama

*Episodes 201-204 are available to screen

PREMIERE DATE: 8/14/22 | GENRE: Drama

*Episodes 201-204 are available to screen

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Raquel “Raq” Thomas has gained control over the city’s drug trade, but her son is slipping away. After being whisked out of the city for his own safety at the end of season one, Kanan Stark returns to Queens uncertain of his future with the family business. Meanwhile, a secret about his mother and neighborhood antagonist, Detective Malcolm Howard, threatens to upend everything Kanan thought he knew about himself and his family. While trying to allay her son’s concerns, Raq boldly expands the family business into hostile Mafia territory. She gets no help from her younger brother, Lou-Lou, who has other plans that revolve around his emerging record label. On the other hand, Marvin, the oldest of the Thomas siblings, remains Raq’s loyal soldier, but struggles to earn his daughter, Jukebox’s, forgiveness after their brutal fight in season one.

The ties that bind this family together are becoming undone, but Raq will stop at nothing to hold them together.

PUBLICISTS

Leslie Gwinn, leslie.gwinn@starz.com

Courtney Sylvia, courtney.sylvia@starz.com

PANELISTS

Patina Miller
“Raquel ‘Raq’ Thomas”

MeKai Curtis
“Kanan Stark”

Sascha Penn
Showrunner & Executive Producer

Patina Miller
“Raquel ‘Raq’ Thomas”

Patina Miller stars as ‘Raquel Thomas’ in the STARZ Original series “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.” She recently starred as press coordinator Daisy Grant in the CBS hit drama series “Madam Secretary,” starring Tea Leoni, Bebe Neuwirth and Tim Daly. She also starred as Charlotte Jenkins on the PBS Civil War-era drama “Mercy Street,” alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Josh Radnor. The show marked PBS’ first original drama in more than a decade.

Miller made her feature film debut as Commander Paylor in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The first part of the famous trilogy’s finale was released in November 2014. Patina then reprised her role in the final installment of the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, which was released in November 2015.

Miller starred as the Leading Player in the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s famous 1972 musical “Pippin,” directed by Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus and co-starring Matthew James Thomas, Andrea Martin and Terrance Mann. “Pippin” received the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical at the 67th Annual Tony Awards.

Miller successfully put a contemporary twist on a role originated by award-winning actor Ben Vereen, and mastered the Fosse movements that the show relies so heavily on.

Miller earned a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, as well as a Drama League Award, Fred and Adele Astaire Award, and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award. She previously performed the role of Leading Player in the American Repertory Theater production of “Pippin” from December 2012 to January 2013.

Miller made her Broadway debut in the 2011 Broadway season as the gutsy nightclub-singer-turned-nun Deloris Van Cartier in the stage adaptation of “Sister Act,” which earned her first Tony nomination as well as a Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance.

Additionally, Miller starred in multiple Off-Broadway productions, including “Ragtime” at Avery Fisher Hall, City Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s

“Lost in the Stars,” and the Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Romantic Poetry.” Miller also appeared in the Public Theater’s pre-Broadway revival of “Hair” during its 2008 run at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, also under the direction of Diane Paulus. Her regional theatre credits include “First You Dream,” a Kander and Ebb revue at the Kennedy Center, “Sister Act” at the Alliance Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse, and the Philadelphia Theater Company production of “Being Alive.” She has participated in workshops for “Book of Mormon,” “Nightingale,” and “American Idiot.” Prior to her numerous theater credits, Miller appeared in the renowned daytime soap opera “All My Children.”

Miller performed her first solo concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts during its 2013-2014 theatrical season. She then made her New York City debut in

February 2014 as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s “American Songbook” series, which subsequently aired on PBS. She starred as “The Witch” in the Hollywood Bowl’s limited run of “Into the Woods,” to rave reviews.

Miller received a degree in musical theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently resides in New York City. Jackson has carved out a thriving television and film career as both a best in class producer and star. In 2005, he founded G-Unit Film & Television, Inc. which has produced a wide variety of content across numerous platforms and sold a myriad of shows to various networks. Among these is the critically-acclaimed #1 show on Starz, “Power,” in which he not only co-starred in but also served as executive producer and director. In October 2018, Jackson and Starz/Lionsgate closed an unprecedented deal for Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television, Inc. The partnership, touted as among the most significant deals to date for an Executive Producer in premium television will focus on expansion of the “Power” universe, recently announced spin-offs ‘’Power Book II: Ghost,’’ “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” and “Power Book IV: Force.” G-Unit Film & Television also just aired the second season of the ABC Mega-Hit, “For Life” and is in production on the first season of the widely anticipated series, “BMF” for STARZ. G-Unit is also in development on scripted series “Twenty Four Seven” Paramount+, “Family Affair” ABC, “The 50th Law” Netflix, and “Female Sports Agent” and “Moment in Time” and “The Case of Cyntoia Brown” at Starz. It was announced in May 2021 that “Confessions of A Crime Queen” was a straight to series order on Discovery+ and “Let Me Hear a Rhyme” at Peacock. The company is also building out its feature slate, starting with a 3 picture Horror deal as a collaboration with Horror phenom Eli Roth and James Frey’s 3BlackDot.

Additional credits include the variety show “50 Central” on BET and “The Oath” on Sony Crackle the networks most-watched new original series. Jackson’s successful film career has included roles in several blockbusters: most recently Den of Thieves co-starring opposite Gerard Butler, which Jackson has signed on to produce the sequel along with Butler. Jackson has also appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama Southpaw, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Spy with Melissa McCarthy, and reprised his role in Escape Plan 3. In April 2021 it was announced that Jackson will star as a lead and produce the feature film Free Agents for Lionsgate.

The exceptional businessman serves as CEO of G-Unit Records, which he founded in 2003 and has since signed a host of multi-platinum artists. Jackson continues to dominate the charts with hits like the recently released “The Woo” which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.

Jackson continues to extend his brand, which encompasses a broad spectrum of businesses including Sire Spirits which Jackson formed in 2016, a luxury Wine and Spirits company that owns Le Chemin du Roi Champagne and Branson Cognac. In April 2020 Jackson released his second New York Times Best Selling self-help book Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter.