An Academy Award-nominated actress has joined the cast of a pilot that’s being made for the USA Network.

USA’s adaptation of the “best-selling novel ‘La Reina Del Sur’ (aka ‘The Queen of the South’) has enlisted ‘Babel’ supporting actress Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza,” reports The Hollywood Reporter.

The story adds that “Barraza will co-star as Camilla, the lioness ex-wife of a powerful drug lord who is now establishing her own empire in America. She quickly becomes a mother figure to Teresa [a character played by Alice Braga], but their relationship escalates into a deadly battle of wills.”

Adriana Barraza was Oscar-nominated here in “Babel”