Lisa Kudrow has joined the cast of new Netflix comedy Space Force, the streaming service has announced. The Friends star will play Maggie Naird, the wife of General Mark R Naird, played by Steve Carell.
The new workplace comedy is inspired by Space Force, the new branch of the US armed services announced by Donald Trump, and is about the men and women responsible for setting it up.
The Netflix series has been created by Carell with Greg Daniels, who was behind the US version of The Office. Kudrow’s character is described as “a Washington Air Force wife who has sublimated parts of herself to her husband’s career for two decades.