The Snowpiercer series takes the original concept of the film (and the comic that inspired it), and expands this universe well beyond the simple revolution of the 2013 film. As a result, the cast is significantly bigger, playing with a few existing characters (Mr. Wilford himself, and Mason, who is referenced, if not directly adapted, as Ruth in the series), but also introducing many new faces. Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly are the two biggest stars, as Andre Layton and Melanie Cavill, but they are joined by an incredible cast of stars from film, tv, and stage.
So where might fans recognize some of the most important characters? From The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones to Broadway musicals and award winning films, here's where you may know the cast of Snowpiercer from.
10 Pike - Steven Ogg
Steven Ogg, who plays tailie Pike, may be best known for a game, rather than a movie or TV series. Ogg voices Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto V, a voice role that has led to award nominations for the Canadian actor. On screen, he has appeared in Westworld (alongside Iddo Goldberg, also in Snowpiercer), The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, and The Tick.
9 Alexandra Cavill - Rowan Blanchard
Rowan Blanchard is a young actress who started out in 2010 as Caitlin on Dance-A-Lot Robot. Since then, she's appeared in Spy Kids 4, Disney's Circle of Stars, Girl Meets World, and A Wrinkle In Time. Now, she is growing into more adult roles, and in Snowpiercer, she is the daughter of Melanie Cavill, who has been living with Mr. Wilford, and who believes her mother left her behind to die. It's a powerful role, and one that sees her explore her relationship with her mother, her father figure, obedience, and authority, and it's clear that Blanchard has the chops to handle it.
8 Zarah Ferami - Sheila Vand
Zarah starts out in Snowpiercer as one of the few tailies who manages to leave the tail in order to work for the Night Car - and by season two, she is pregnant, and she and Layton's relationship (which dates to before the train) is getting more and more complicated. She is brought to life by Sheila Vand, and Snowpiercer may be one of the actress's biggest roles to date. Other notable roles include in Argo, We The Animals, and A Girl Walks Home At Night.
7 Miss Audrey - Lena Hall
Lena Hall is a huge name on Broadway, and the Tony-award-winning actress appears in Snowpiercer as Miss Audrey, lending her vocal talents to the role as the woman in charge of the Night Car. Although she is definitely better known for her roles on the stage, rather than on the screen, and Snowpiercer is her first major role in a series, she has appeared in a handful of individual episodes of well-known series.
These include in Girls, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, BoJack Horseman, and Sex and the City. She's also appeared on the big screen, in movies including the 2017 musical drama Becks.
6 Bess Till - Mickey Sumner
Bess Till starts her Snowpiercer story as one of the Brakemen, but ends up as Train Detective after the revolution. She's far from a simple character, though, as she struggles with the revelations about the mysteries of the train, her place in it, her girlfriend's decisions, and her own propensity to violence. Brakeman Till is played by Mickey Sumner, who is better known for her work in film than on the small screen. She is one of the stars of Frances Ha, alongside Greta Gerwig, and also appears in Marriage Story. She will also be in the upcoming series Caring, and the Covid anthology film With/In.
5 Ruth Wardell - Alison Wright
Ruth Wardell is the bustling hospitality manager of the train, and someone who is truly, deeply loyal to Wilford - and to her principles and ideas of how the train should run, and what that requires. She isn't always the most likable character, but she's a complicated one, played to perfection by Alison Wright. Wright is an Emmy-nominated actress, probably best known for her roles in The Accountant and The Americans.
4 Mr. Wilford - Sean Bean
Sean Bean is probably the most recognizable actor in Snowpiercer, as the powerful (and suspicious) Mr Wilford, who rejoined the train in the second season. Bean is known for his roles in everything from Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings to the Bond franchise (in Goldeneye) to Troy.
His appearance in Snowpiercer was a thrill for fans, although presumably, it means that Mr. Wilford won't last to the end of the series, as it is a running joke that any character played by Sean Bean will die before the end.
3 Bennett Knox - Iddo Goldberg
Bennett is an engineer, and spends the majority of the series cut off from the rest of the train. However, he is vitally important to Melanie, as one of the few people who know the truth about her, and as her love interest in the show. Iddo Goldberg, who plays Bennett, has an impressive filmography of some of the best TV series in recent years. He's been in Peaky Blinders, Westworld, Salem, and more, while his big-screen credits include The Zookeeper's Wife and And While We Were Here. His upcoming projects include the film Don't Fear, set for 2021.
2 Andre Layton - Daveed Diggs
Andre Layton starts out as one of the tailies, but becomes one of the central characters as train detective, and then as one of the leaders of the new train society after the revolution. A detective in the time before the train, Layton is brilliant, deeply moral, conflicted about his new position on Snowpiercer, and played by the incredible Daveed Diggs. Diggs may now be best known for his role in Hamilton as Lafayette/Jefferson, but the award-winning actor has a huge range of credits, including voice work for Star Wars: Resistance, Bob's Burgers, and BoJack Horseman. In live-action, he's appeared in Black-ish, The Get Down, and Blindspotting, with a Blindspotting tv series in pre-production.
1 Melanie Cavill - Jennifer Connelly
Melanie Cavill is the mastermind in control of the train - for the first season, at least. An engineer who also works as head of hospitality, she knows the train inside and out, and helped to build it, and she keeps things running under the pretence of following 'Mr. Wilford's' orders... until it all comes crashing down. Jennifer Connelly brings incredible depth to this central character, which is no surprise, given how long she has been acting. Connelly is possibly best known as the star of the cult classic Labyrinth, but she has been steadily working since the '80s. Connelly has starred in everything from rom coms like He's Just Not That Into You to dramas like A Beautiful Mind, and is also set to appear in Top Gun: Maverick.
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