#PENNY DREADFUL DORIAN GRAY SERIES#

Danny Sapani as Sembene, a mysterious, long-time ally of Malcolm (seasons 1–2).Billie Piper as Brona Croft / Lily Frankenstein, an Irish immigrant seeking to escape her brutal, violent past.

Rory Kinnear as the Creature, a creation Frankenstein abruptly abandoned, who, not given a name, variously uses the aliases Caliban and John Clare.

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.

Timothy Dalton as Malcolm Murray, a hardened explorer of the African continent, on a deeply personal quest to save the remaining members of his family.

Reeve Carney as Dorian Gray, a charismatic man who is ageless and immortal.

When Count Dracula appears in London, the final battle for Vanessa Ives' soul begins.Ĭast and characters Main cast In the third season, the main characters find themselves scattered across the world. Frankenstein is forced to make his creature a bride, and an inspector hunts Chandler after a grisly murder in a London inn. In the second season, Ives is hunted by a coven of witches led by the charismatic Evelyn Poole, wanting to bring Ives to Lucifer, who is their master. Ives becomes romantically involved with the handsome, artistic Dorian Gray but also finds herself haunted by Lucifer, who wishes to make her his bride and queen. They receive help from a young doctor named Victor Frankenstein, who is hunted by an undead man of Frankenstein's creation. Ethan Chandler, an American gunman and roadshow artist, is hired by the adventurer Malcolm Murray and the mysterious Vanessa Ives to help rescue Murray's daughter from a mysterious creature. Justine from Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade also appears.Ī spin-off series, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, aired from April 26 to June 28, 2020.

#PENNY DREADFUL DORIAN GRAY SERIES#

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. The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. 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.

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. 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.

The show was originally pitched to several US and UK channels, and eventually landed with Showtime, with Sky Atlantic as co-producer. 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.

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