Exclusive: Eddie Izzard to Guest-Star as Lockhart/Gardner Rival about the Good Wife

Eddie Izzard Eddie Izzard has reserved a guest-starring role about the Good Wife, TVGuide.com has learned solely. Izzard will have Abbott Thrush, a maximum-class British lawyer introduced directly into fight Lockhart/Gardner inside a libel situation that finds its distance to British court. New SVU detective Kelli Giddish books Good Wife return "Eddie Izzard has got the one factor we are always searching for: enormous talent with both comedy and drama," co-designers and executive producers Robert and Michelle King stated. "We could not become more excited to possess him on the program!Inch The Nobleman happen to be departing the doorway open for Izzard to reprise his role later on. "At this time he's only in a single episode. But folks will have a means of coming back...," they stated. The Great Wife's Robert King: Season 3 takes risks Also guest-starring within the approaching season: House alum Lisa Edelstein, and Kelli Giddish, who'll return not less than one episode as Kalinda's old friend, Sophia. Izzard will next star in Syfy's Treasure Island, opposite Elijah Wood and Jesse Sutherland, and last made an appearance in Showtime's U . s . States of Tara. Season 3 from the Good Wife premieres on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 9/8c on CBS.