Beau Bridges will accumulate with his Norma Rae wife in Brothers & Sisters, Deadline reports.

Bridges, 68, who starred adverse Sally Field in the 1979 Oscar-nominated film, will comedy a adulation absorption for her character, Nora Walker, on the ABC series. (Field, 64, won the aboriginal of her two best-actress Oscars for her performance.)

Bridges, who has starred in Stargate SG-1, and accustomed Emmy nominations for his bedfellow stints on My Name is Earl and Desperate Housewives, will aboriginal arise for a multi-episode arc aboriginal abutting year.