94 | MARCH 31 • 2022 

ARTS&LIFE
TV

T

he big reveal came for 
Sills’ character, French 
Chef Baudin, during 
the season finale on March 
21, along with the bonus 
announcement that The Gilded 
Age has been picked up for a 

second season. Sills already 
has the first three scripts.
 
“I’m looking forward 
to reading the upcoming 
episodes. Being in a Julian 
Fellowes’ production is kind 
of like being in a scavenger 

hunt — you don’t decide your 
destiny for the next year; he 
does,” said Sills, who grew up 
in Detroit and then Franklin 
Village. Fellowes is also the 
mastermind behind the 
Downton Abbey franchise.

Douglas Sills Is 
Chef Baudin 
in HBO’s The 
Gilded Age.

Appetit!

JULIE SMITH YOLLES 
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Appetit!

*

ABOVE: Douglas Sills 
is Monsieur Baudin in 
HBO’s The Gilded Age.

