CASTING NEWS: J. Smith-Cameron Joins True Blood Season 3

J. Smith-Cameron joins True Blood's third season

EW’s Ausiello just posted the scoop that Tony winner J. Smith-Cameron will join True Blood for the third season as Sam’s mom, Melinda Mickens. It’s a recurring role that calls for Cameron to play a dirt poor, hungover woman who lives in a shanty.

Sam’s brother, Tommy, has already been cast, but the actor playing Melinda’s also-living-in-squalor husband, Joe Lee, has yet to be announced. We’ve speculated that Tommy and Sam are half-brothers, and that Joe Lee is the first to realize Sam’s relationship to Melinda. Sounds like Broadway-vet Cameron will have plenty to sink her teeth into with this role!