This Is Us Actor Niles Fitch Joins Cast Of Disney+ Original Movie ‘Secret Society of Second Born Royals’

Niles Fitch of NBC’s highly-acclaimed award-winning television show “This is US”  has joined the ensemble cast of the original movie “Secret Society of Second Born Royals,” a contemporary princess story for Disney+, the upcoming streaming service. The movie will begin production this month in Toronto.

“Secret Society of Second Born Royals” introduces Sam (Peyton Lee), a rebellious princess second in line to the throne of the kingdom of Illyria. Just as Sam’s disinterest in the royal way of life is at an all-time high, she is stunned to learn that she has superpowers and belongs to a secret society with a longstanding tradition of covertly keeping the peace throughout the kingdom. The movie follows Sam’s adventures at a top-secret training program for a new class of second born royals tasked with saving the world.

Fitch will portray Prince Tuma, one of her second born royal classmates with superpowers; along with Faly Rakotohavana as Prince Matteo, Isabella Blake Thomas as Princess January, and Olivia Deeble as Princess Roxana. Elodie Yung (“Daredevil”) will play Queen Catherine, Ashley Liao as Princess Eleanor, and Noah Lomax as Mike. Skylar Astin will star as James in the film.

Best known as the 17-year-old version of Randall (Sterling K. Brown) on This Is Us, Fitch joined the Season 7 cast of “Army Wives” in the role of Deuce, TV son of Grammy Award Winner Ashanti (Latasha Montclair).

He guest-starred on Law & Order SVU,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” Disney’s “Best Friends Whenever,” and was a recurring guest-star role on “Mistresses.” On the stage, Niles was Young Simba on Broadway in Disney’s “The Lion King.”

Zanne Devine (“I, Tonya,” the Disney Channel Original Movie “Kim Possible”), Mike Karz (“Valentine’s Day”) and Austin Winsberg (“Gossip Girl”) are the executive producers of “Secret Society of Second Born Royals.” Anna Mastro (Marvel’s “Runaways,” “The Bold Type”) will direct the movie. The co-producer is Juliana Janes (“Butter”). The teleplay was written by Alex Litvak (“Masters of the Universe”) and Andrew Green (“Hannah Montana”) and is based on an original story by Litvak, Green and Winsberg.