Chris Noth is not wasting any time booking his follow-up role to The Good Wife. The actor, who is filming the fifth and final season of the CBS drama, has joined the cast of FX's drama Tyrant, The Hollywood Reporter reveals.

Noth will join the third-season drama in the series regular role of William Cogswell, an American general who was summarily transferred out of Abbudin and returns to that country when Bassam "Barry" Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) assumes the provisional presidency. Although he initially offers American support, Gen. Cogswell will rise to power as his romantic history with Leila (Moran Atias) reignites, and as his apparent (and hidden) idiosyncrasies are revealed.