Vikings star Katheryn Winnick tapped for a lead role in David E. Kelley's The Big Sky

Variety

Ahead of the Vikings series finale, Winnick has joined Kelley's ABC straight-to-series drama as a cynical and tough ex-cop who was married and separated from Ryan Phillippe's private detective character. Winnick also joins the previously cast  John Carroll Lynch and Dedee Pfeiffer.