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Marc Anthony to appear in season three of HawthoRNe on TNT

By April MacIntyre Mar 7, 2011, 18:02 GMT

02/13/2011 - Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony - 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards - Arrivals - Staples Center - Los Angeles, CA, USA © Andrew Evans / PR Photos

TNT's "HawthoRNe" is set for a June premiere for season 3, and it will include J-Lo's husband, Marc Anthony. 

Anthony will reprise the newly expanded role of Police Detective Nick Renata, the character he introduced as a guest star in two episodes last season.

He is now cast as a series regular just as lead actor Jada Pinkett Smith’s Christina Hawthorne, Chief Nursing Officer of James River Hospital, struggles with news that she is pregnant.

The two connected last season while Renata investigated a pair of criminal cases involving the hospital. But Christina, whose on-again, off-again romance with Dr. Tom Wakefield (Michael Vartan) has been a mess of mixed signals and bad timing, told Nick she was not ready to jump into a new relationship.

As a recording artist, Anthony has been awarded numerous gold and platinum record certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His Grammy accolades began with a 1998 Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance for “Contra La Corriente,” followed with a 1999 Latin Grammy for Song of the Year for “Dimelo.” In 2004, he earned a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album for Amar Sin Mentiras and a Latin Grammy for Best Salsa Album for Valió la Pena. He won his third Latin Grammy for the 2008 album El Cantante.  

Anthony’s acting includes roles in Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead and Tony Scott’s Man on Fire. Starring opposite wife Jennifer Lopez, Anthony played Puerto Rican salsa pioneer Héctor Lavoe in Leon Ichaso’s biopic El Cantante. He also starred opposite Salma Hayak in the television film In the Time of the Butterflies. In 1997, Anthony made his Broadway debut in Paul Simon’s musical The Capeman.