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Only Murders in the Building has a Oscar-winning guest star for season 5!
On Wednesday, March 26, the show’s official Instagram and X pages confirmed that Renée Zellweger will be joining the cast.
For both announcements, the show included a photo of a black director’s chair with Zellweger’s name on it — a playful take on the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement which was released the same day.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zellweger, 55, will have a “recurring guest star role.”
On X, the show’s social media account wrote, “Renée Zellweger joins #OMITB Season 5!” The caption on Instagram read, “Welcome to the building, Renée Zellweger! #OMITB.”
The Instagram post also included a screenshot of a Deadline article about Zellweger’s addition to the cast.
This isn’t the first foray back into TV for Zellweger, who earned a Best Actress Oscar for Judy after being nominated for Bridget Jones’s Diary and Chicago. In 2019, she starred in the Netflix thriller miniseries What/If and the NBC limited series The Thing About Pam in 2022.
Deadline reported that production on season 5 of the show began this week with series stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez all making a return.
While no additional details are known about Zellweger’s new role on the show, executive producer Dan Fogelman previously teased in a January 2025 conversation with TheWrap that season 5 would include “another big fun mystery the writers have been cooking up.”
“The ability for the writers to take those three guys who are so comfortable in the skin of those roles now, and where the comedy sits in the show, where the dramedy sits in the show, it’s just so always so fun to start a new story with them and explore new aspects of their friendship and new aspects of their lives,” said Fogelman.
He added that he believes season 5 is going to be “a really fun, fulfilling season.”
The upcoming new series of episodes follows the show’s award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
While both Martin and Short were absent from the ceremony, Gomez, 32, was present to accept the big win.
“We never win. This is so weird! Marty and Steve aren’t here because, you know, they don’t really care,” she jokingly said before thanking them.
“Thank you to Marty and Steve for — well they raised me. But I genuinely am just so grateful to everybody,” she continued.
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“The writers, everyone deserves this. And I take it home for all of us, and I’m bringing this back to New York for season five. Thank you so much. I’m so grateful,” said Gomez.
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