Jackie Earle Haley Cast in Spielberg’s Lincoln

Steven Spielberg has added another quality name to his already esteemed line-up of actors in his forthcoming biopic of Abraham Lincoln by casting Watchmen’s Jackie Earle Haley.

Deadline brings news that the Little Children star will play another villain of sorts in the form of Alexander Stephens, an opposer of Lincoln’s slavery reform agenda. He’ll join the likes of Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Hawkes, David Strathairn, Walton Goggins and Daniel Day-Lewis (in the titular role) in the film, entitled Lincoln, this autumn.

Comeback king Haley is currently working with another starry ensemble in the form of Tim Burton’s next horror yarn, Dark Shadows.