Jennifer Beals will co-star in the upcoming CBS pilot "Widow Detective", The Wrap reported.
The "Flashdance" and "The L Word" actress will play Lainey, the owner of a San Fernando Valley hair salon and the widow of a Los Angeles Police Department officer who the title character takes under his wing.
The pilot, from CBS Television Studios, centers on a decorated police detective who, after losing three partners in the line of duty, becomes surrogate husband, lover and father to their families.
"Delivering Milo" and "Noel" writer David Hubbard is writing the pilot and serving as a producer. "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim is directing and also producing.
Beals most recently appeared on two episodes of ABC's "Castle," and starred last year in Fox's canceled police drama "The Chicago Code."
