‘Claws’ Season 2 Spoilers: ‘Taboo’ Star Franka Potente Joins Cast

Franka Potente has landed a recurring role on TNT’s “Claws.”

According to TVLine, Potente will recur as Zlata Ostrovsky in the upcoming Season 2 of the crime dramedy. Zlata is the newly reformed, former black sheep daughter of a powerful Russian mob family who does business in Florida. She is the sister of Riva (Andrea Sooch), the leader of the Russian mob who took over 100 percent of all Uncle Daddy’s (Dean Norris) businesses at the end of Season 1.

Earlier this month, TVLine revealed that the Eliot Laurence-created series was also casting the role of Zlata’s estranged daughter Olga. Described as a “slightly overweight” and “barely reformed party girl,” Olga awkwardly reconciles with her absentee mom Zlata in the new season and takes full advantage of her mom’s maternal guilt.

Olga’s name was first mentioned in the Season 1 finale during a phone call between Riva and Uncle Daddy. When Uncle Daddy asked Riva why she wanted Roller (Jack Kesy) dead, the Russian mob boss told Uncle Daddy to ask Roller about Olga. Roller then revealed to Uncle Daddy that Olga was a “dirty little Russian” he previously hooked up with. “[I] met her at their club. They told me she was 25, [but] she was 17,” Roller said, before revealing that he and Olga had a baby.

Potente is best known for her role as Lola in the 1998 German thriller film “Run Lola Run.” The 43-year-old actress recently appeared on FX’s “Taboo,” “The Bridge,” and “American Horror Story: Asylum.”

Plot details about Season 2 are being kept under wraps, but “Claws” stars Karrueche Tran and Carrie Preston both said that they would like to know more about the girls’ individual backstory in the show’s sophomore run.

“I just love the concept of opening up [my character] Virginia more and just revealing more about her and her life,” Tran told Entertainment Weekly when asked if there’s any particular thing the actress would like to do next season. “I think maybe more about her backstory would explain a lot about who she is and why she is the way she is. Maybe just more on that.”

“I would love to see even more backstories [for] all of us women in the crew [in Season 2] because we’ve only just scratched the surface there,” Preston, who plays Polly on the show, told TV Guide.

“Claws” Season 2 will premiere sometime next year.