Annette Bening Joins ‘Katrina: American Crime Story’

The actress will play Kathleen Blanco, the Louisiana governor who held office during and after the hurricane.

“Yes, you’ll have the famous people, and also people who weren’t famous during Katrina,” executive producer Brad Simpson said during TCA in August, declining to confirm whether people like George W. Bush, president at the time in 2004, would be included.

Really it’s going to be about two things, one is just the intensity of what it’s like to be there on the ground, to be in the pressure cooker, but also thematically, the bigger crime — that Katrina was something that was predictable, that we weren’t prepared for, but we knew was going to happen.

American Crime Story” recently won critical acclaim and a slew of Emmys for its first outing, “The People v. O.J. Simpson.