'House of Cards' Season 3 Release Date Announced Feb 2015 from Netflix starring Kevin Spacey

Netflix via its Facebook page on December 1 posted a short clip captioned "A special message from the White House" which shows Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood and Robin Wright as his wife Claire about to board the Air Force One, followed by a terse written message that reads "02 27-15" underneath an inverted American flag. As with the previous House of Cards seasons, all 13 episodes of Season 3 are expected to be released by the streaming service on the same day, February 27.

To prep up the fans for the big day, Netflix also released the first official trailer for the House of Cards Season 3 just after Kevin Spacey's acceptance speech for his Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a TV Drama for his role as President. "You want to know what takes real courage? Holding it together when the stakes are this high," says Spacey's Frank Underwood at the start of the teaser. Towards the end of the video, Wright's Claire tells him, "We're murderers, Francis." He growls back: "We're survivors."

Aside from Spacey as Frank Underwood and Wright as his wife Claire, the other regulars who will be back for House of Cards Season 3 include Mahershala Ali, Sebastian Arcelus, Kristen Connolly, Nathan Darrow, Michel Gil, Sakina Jeffrey, Gerald McRaney, Molly Parker, Corey Stoll, Constance Zimmer, Jayne Atkinson, Gil Birmingham, Reg Cathey, Derek Cecil, Kathleen Chalfant, Terry Chen, Curtis Cook, Ben Daniels, Joanna Going, Jeremy Holm, Sandrine Holt, Kevin Kilner, Mozhan Malno, Benito Martinez, Boris MacGiver, Lance Nichols, Samuel Page, Larry Pine, Al Sapienza, Kate Lyn Sheil, Jimmi Simpson, Libby Woodbridge, Dan Ziskie, and Reed Birney. According to TVLine, Jenna Stern and Kim Dickens have also been added to the cast. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the two members of the Russian feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot who were jailed for a staged performance inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, will be also seen in Season 3 of House of Cards.

Netflix's House of Cards is an adaptation of a BBC mini-series of the same name which concluded after three seasons upon the death of Frank Underwood's counterpart in the UK storyline. Francis Urqharts, the British version of Frank Underwood, was assassinated in a hit set up by his own wife. However, in what could possibly be House of Cards Season 3 spoiler, executive producer Rick Cleveland reportedly said that for as long as lead actors Spacey and Wright agree to continue reprising their roles, then Netflix will also continue the series.