"Quantico" star Priyanka Chopra welcomes Marlee Matlin on board

Los Angeles, Aug 1 Priyanka Chopra is excited as her Hollywood show "Quantico" has tapped Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin for its new season.

Priyanka, 35, imparted the news to fans on Twitter and welcomed Matlin on board.

"Welcome to #quantico @MarleeMatlin we can hardly wait to have u on board," Priyanka composed.

Matlin, who is best known for her execution of a young deaf woman, Sarah Norman, in "Offspring of a Lesser God", likewise communicated her fervor by tweeting, "Can hardly wait to work with Priyanka Chopra, Johanna Braddy, Jake Mclaughlin, my old companion Blair Underwood and obviously Michael Seitzman."

Matlin, 51, has joined "Quantico" as an arrangement general for the up and coming third season.

She will play Jocelyn Turner, an ex-FBI agent who was known to at one time as the best covert specialist in the field until the point that a bomb blew up near her and rendered her hard of hearing, revealed Variety.