# Melissa Joan Hart to Play “The Black Widow” Serial Killer Judy Buenoano in Lifetime Movie (Exclusive)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/melissa-joan-hart-to-play-the-black-widow-serial-killer-judy-buenoano-in-lifetime-movie-exclusive/
- Published: 2026-10-27T17:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T17:34:46+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/melissa-joan-hart-to-play-serial-killer-judy-buenoano-1236740404/
- Topics: Art, Business, Culture, Markets

## Key points

- Melissa Joan Hart will play Judy Buenoano in a Lifetime true-crime film.
- The story centres on a surviving car-bombing victim and a series of deaths.
- The film is due to premiere on 23 January 2027.

## Summary

Melissa Joan Hart will portray convicted serial killer Judy Buenoano in Lifetime’s upcoming true-crime film, *Black Widow Killer: The Judy Buenoano Story*, and will also executive produce it. The casting marks a darker role for Hart, best known for *Sabrina the Teenage Witch*, and the film joins Lifetime’s winter “Ripped From the Headlines” slate.

Set in 1970s and 1980s Florida, the story follows Buenoano, a salon owner and mother whose fiancé survives a car bombing, prompting detectives to investigate deaths among people close to her. Chris Bauer plays Detective Chamberlain and Matthew Settle plays fiancé John Gentry; Agam Darshi directs from a script by Taylor Martin. The film is scheduled to premiere on Lifetime on 23 January 2027 at 8pm.

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