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.

曾出演过《黑天鹅》（Black Swan）、《我们的傻老哥》（Our Idiot Brother）等影片的英国女星詹尼特·蒙特戈里（Janet Montgomery）将加盟主演CBS的新剧《律政宝贝》（译名待定），丹娜·卡沃（Dana Calvo）将担任这部律政剧的编剧。该剧讲述的是珍妮特饰演的女主角玛蒂娜（Martina），一个在纽约一家律师事务所工作的女人，如何运用她的精明智慧和同事共处以及竞争的故事。

除了参演过不少电影之外，詹尼特·蒙特戈里也在很多电视剧中有过精彩的表演，比如HBO已经完结的经典剧《明星伙伴》（Entourage），另外在第二季的《替身标靶》（Human Target）中，她也是一个常规角色，而她最新的作品是BBC的一部迷你剧《舞在边缘》。