Billy Brown (Sons of Anarchy, Dexter, The Following) has been added to the cast of CBS' Hostages, a drama pilot centered on family caught in the center of a sprawling political conspiracy.

Toni Collette stars as a surgeon whose choice to operate on the President of the United States sets off the chain of events. Brown will play a hot-headed ex-military involved in taking the family captive. 

Hostages is produced by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and Warner Bros. TV.