Lindsay Lohan lands first scripted TV series lead role in ‘Count My Lies’

Ahead of the highly anticipated release of Freakier Friday, the Lohannaisance picked up steam Wednesday after Lindsay Lohan announced that she’s set to team with This Is Us producers to star in Hulu’s upcoming TV series adaptation of Sophie Stava’s novel Count My Lies.

After the Mean Girls and Freaky Friday actress revealed the project on her Instagram account, Entertainment Weekly confirmed with a representative for the star and Hulu that the 38-year-old will appear in the new TV project, which will mark her first lead role in a scripted TV series. Lohan previously had a recurring part on the British sitcom Sick Note and led a pair of docuseries about her life, Lindsay and Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club.

“The drama will star Lindsay Lohan, who has a long-standing relationship with the Walt Disney Company,” a representative for Hulu — owned by Disney — tells EW via email, which also indicates that Lohan will produce the upcoming series.

Count My Lies is now in development at the streaming service from NBC’s This Is Us executive producers and showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who will also write the show.

“Killer book. Millennial icon,” Aptaker wrote of the development on his Instagram Story. “Let’s go.”

Per Deadline, Lohan will play Violet Lockart, one half of a wealthy New York City couple who unknowingly welcome a compulsive liar, Sloane Caraway, to be their nanny at their large brownstone based on a chance encounter laced with a lie.

While working for the pair, Sloane discovers that the family might also harbor some secrets, and the plot centers around several suspenseful developments and twists.

While Count My Lies will be Lohan’s first lead role in a scripted TV series, the aforementioned supporting role in Sick Note and the MTV reality series Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club began a new chapter for the star.

“You take a bunch of kids [to] this party place and they just want to run around. They forget they have a job the next day,” Lohan previously told EW of Beach Club, which saw her overseeing a competition of hopefuls applying to join the staff of her Grecian beach resort.

She told EW at the time that she found the right type of “solace and silence” required to lead an empire free from the frenzy surrounding her past. “I was able to watch as an overseer and really understand. Was I ever like that? Maybe,” she said. “But this can’t happen now.… Work is work, and I don’t want any mucking about.”

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After Beach Club ended, Lohan entered into a high-profile deal to star in multiple films for Netflix, all three of which have since been released, including 2022’s Falling for Christmas and Irish Wish and Our Little Secret, both of which debuted in 2024 — with Lohan additionally producing all three.

Next, she’ll return to the big screen with the Aug. 8 theatrical release of Disney’s Freakier Friday, which sees her re-team with Jamie Lee Curtis for a sequel to their beloved 2003 comedy hit.

“I’m telling you right now, this one played a song last night at the Wiltern [theater in Los Angeles] and it is in my ear like one of those Star Trek earworms,” Curtis told EW last year of Lohan’s return to music in the movie. “I’m telling you, it’s going to be a monster hit. I’m not going to tell you what it’s called because we’re in the middle of making it, but there are some old favorites played in this movie.”