The lead in the CBS drama pilot Baby Big Shot has gone to a British actress, an interesting choice since it’s about a young lawyer using her street smarts to make her way at a high profile New York law firm. Somehow I was picturing a Bronx accent, but then maybe just-cast Janet Montgomery is really good with accents?
She’ll have to be, unless we’re looking at a working class British girl making it in New York, since Deadline reports Brit Janet Montgomery has snagged the lead in this pilot. It was a sought after role since the options for young female drama leads are a little on the limited side this pilot season. Baby Big Shot is about a young lawyer named Martina who joins a Manhattan law firm and finds herself working with a group of polished colleagues from a much different world. She puts her knowledge of the streets to work to help her compete.
Montgomery is an up and coming actress both in her home country and here in the US where she has been a regular on Human Target as well as on the last season of Entourage. She also had a role in best picture Oscar nominee Black Swan and has a couple of other film projects due for release soon. This would be her first starring role in a television series, although she’s working on a miniseries for the BBC called Dancing on the Edge. Baby Big Shot is one the new projects this season that doesn’t impress me either in the title or in the premise, but I’ve been surprised before.

曾出演過《黑天鵝》（Black Swan）、《我們的傻老哥》（Our Idiot Brother）等影片的英國女星詹尼特·蒙特戈里（Janet Montgomery）將加盟主演CBS的新劇《律政寶貝》（譯名待定），丹娜·卡沃（Dana Calvo）將擔任這部律政劇的編劇。該劇講述的是珍妮特飾演的女主角瑪蒂娜（Martina），一個在紐約一家律師事務所工作的女人，如何運用她的精明智慧和同事共處以及競爭的故事。
除了參演過不少電影之外，詹尼特·蒙特戈里也在很多電視劇中有過精彩的表演，比如HBO已經完結的經典劇《明星伙伴》（Entourage），另外在第二季的《替身標靶》（Human Target）中，她也是一個常規角色，而她最新的作品是BBC的一部迷你劇《舞在邊緣》。