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Dylan McDermott Joins Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story

Photo: Frazer Harrison/2011 Getty Images
Photo: Frazer Harrison/2011 Getty Images

Dylan McDermott has been cast in Ryan Murphy’s FX pilot American Horror Story as Ben, a sensitive therapist and husband to Connie Britton’s Vivien. The show, which Murphy’s co-creator Brad Falchuk described as a subversive take on the genre of horror (and which we hear is super twisted), centers on a couple and their two teenage children who move into a creepy house in San Francisco formerly occupied by “Larry the Burn Guy” (Dennis O’Hare) and next door to nosy neighbor Jessica Lange and her daughter, who has Down syndrome. [Deadline]

Dylan McDermott Joins Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story