Penny Dreadful is a horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The show was originally pitched to several American and British channels, and eventually landed with Showtime,[1] with Sky Atlantic as co-producer.[2] It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 9 and began airing on television on April 28, 2014, on Showtime on Demand.[3][4] The series premiered on Showtime in the United States on May 11, 2014, and on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2014.[5][6][7] After the third-season finale on June 19, 2016, series creator John Logan announced that Penny Dreadful had ended as the main story had reached its conclusion.[8][9]
The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century Victorian Gothic fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, showing their origin stories as an explorer searches for his daughter. Justine from Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade also appears.
A spin-off series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, aired from April 26 to June 28, 2020.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray, a charismatic man who is ageless and immortal[10]
Timothy Dalton as Malcolm Murray, a hardened explorer-adventurer of the African continent, on a deeply personal quest to save the remaining members of his family[11]
Eva Green as Vanessa Ives, an enigmatic, quietly driven heroine who proves herself a force to be reckoned with as she battles powerful, relentless forces from the underworld[12]
Rory Kinnear as the Creature, a creation Frankenstein abruptly abandoned, who, not given a name, variously uses the aliases Caliban and John Clare[13]
Billie Piper as Brona Croft / Lily Frankenstein, an Irish immigrant seeking to escape her brutal, violent past[14]
Danny Sapani as Sembene (seasons 1–2), a mysterious, long-time ally of Malcolm[15]
Harry Treadaway as Victor Frankenstein, an arrogant, socially inept young doctor whose ambition and research involve transcending the barrier between life and death[16]
Josh Hartnett as Ethan Chandler (born Ethan Lawrence Talbot), a charming, brash and daring American man of action with uncanny marksmanship, who detests violence, and is more complicated than he likes to admit[12]
Helen McCrory as Evelyn Poole a.k.a. Evelyn Paul (season 2, recurring season 1), a professional spiritualist known by the alias Madame Kali who is secretly the leader of a powerful coven of witches called "Nightcomers"[15]
Simon Russell Beale as Ferdinand Lyle (season 2, recurring seasons 1 and 3), an eccentric Egyptologist[15]
Patti LuPone as Florence Seward (season 3), an alienist or early psychotherapist treating Vanessa's depression[17][18]
LuPone previously guest-starred as Joan Clayton in season 2
Wes Studi as Kaetenay (season 3), an Apache with a connection to Ethan, who becomes an ally to Malcolm[17]
Supporting cast
Introduced in season 1
Olivia Llewellyn as Mina Harker (seasons 1–2), Malcolm's daughter and Vanessa's childhood friend who has been abducted
Alex Price as Proteus (seasons 1–2), a new creation of Dr. Frankenstein's, named after the literary character of the same name, who was killed by the Creature
Lorcan Cranitch as Inspector Goldsworthy (season 1), of the London police
Robert Nairne as the Vampire (season 1), an evil creature who leads a cabal of undead and who abducted Mina Harker
Olly Alexander as Fenton (season 1), a vampire minion
Graham Butler as Peter Murray (seasons 1–2), Malcolm's son, who died accompanying his father on one of his expeditions
Noni Stapleton as Gladys Murray (seasons 1–2), Malcolm's estranged wife and mother of Mina and Peter
Alun Armstrong as Vincent Brand (season 1), the leader of a troupe of actors in residence at the Grand Guignol[13]
Hannah Tointon as Maud Gunneson (season 1), an actress at the Grand Guignol, and object of the Creature's affection
Gavin Fowler as Simon (season 1), Maud's partner who mistreats the Creature
David Warner as Abraham Van Helsing (season 1), a haematologist and colleague of Frankenstein
Stephen Lord as Warren Roper (seasons 1–2), a Pinkerton agent hired to bring Ethan back to the United States
Introduced in season 2
Sarah Greene as Hecate Poole (seasons 2–3), Evelyn's eldest daughter
Nicole O'Neill, Olivia Chenery and Charlotte Beckett as minor witches of Evelyn's coven (season 2)
Douglas Hodge as Bartholomew Rusk (seasons 2–3), a Scotland Yard police inspector investigating the grisly Mariner's Inn Massacre
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