# Simon Helberg, Molly Shannon & Lucas Hedges To Guest Star On ‘Elsbeth’ Season 4

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/simon-helberg-molly-shannon-lucas-hedges-to-guest-star-on-elsbeth-season-4/
- Published: 2026-10-29T20:36:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T21:25:07+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/simon-helberg-molly-shannon-lucas-hedges-elsbeth-season-4-1237208766/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, TV

## Key points

- Simon Helberg, Molly Shannon and Lucas Hedges join *Elsbeth* season four.
- Helberg plays a Revolutionary War reenactor facing a rival recruit.
- Shannon and Hedges play a superhero creator and prediction-market CEO.

## Summary

CBS’s crime dramedy *Elsbeth* has added Simon Helberg, Molly Shannon and Lucas Hedges as guest stars for its fourth season. Their casting brings three new characters into the show’s stories about attorney Elsbeth Tascioni working with the NYPD, as the series introduces fresh cases and family drama.

Helberg will play Briggs Potter, a passionate Revolutionary War reenactor whose role is challenged by a new recruit. Shannon’s character, Patty Prince, creates a female superhero and faces a dispute over the fictional universe’s consistency; Hedges plays “Data” Stevens, a prediction-market founder and CEO intent on protecting his company’s positive image. Other announced season four guests include Nicole Scherzinger, Nicholas Braun, OG Anunoby, Jemima Kirke, Nat Faxon, Sam Richardson and Lea Michele.

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