Keri Russell (“Felicity”) will play the female lead in Twentieth Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a sequel to its 2011 blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes. She joins co-stars Gary Oldman (Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Kodi-Smit McPhee (Let Me In) and Andy Serkis (The Hobbit).

Directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and co-written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a post apocalyptic story set a decade after the director Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 reboot. Details about Russell’s role in the film are mum, Variety reports.

Russell can currently be seen on the FX spy series “The Americans” and Blumhouse Productions’ exceptionally creepy alien thriller Dark Skies.

Russell also starred in the gay cannibal drama Grimm Love, based on the true story of Armin Meiwes, a German homosexual man sentenced to life imprisonment after slaughtering and eating Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, a willing victim he met in an internet chatroom.