THE CASTING COUCH
British actress, Lucy Griffiths has been cast in True Blood season 5 as Nora.
Described as being a beautiful and intelligent woman who plays a double agent within the Vampire Authority, Nora not only has a big history with Eric, she’s his sister! Nora will be a series regular and might even show a little skin, probably not as often as her brother Eric, but I sense nobody has any issue with that!
In addition to being intelligent, intimidating, cool under pressure and a very good liar, Nora loves Eric deeply, but has dedicated her life to a higher purpose.
A new werewolf mother has been cast for True Blood Season 5, and she’s not Alcide’s mum. Dale Dickey (who was mostly known for her roles on My Name is Earl and Winter’s Bone) has been cast as Annie, the mother of dead wolfpack leader Marcus.
Powerful and respected within the pack due to her late son’s position, Annie is determined to perform a particular ritual. Might said ritual involve making Alcide pay for whacking her demon spawn?
TVline reports that Italian actress Valentina Cervi is joining True Blood‘s upcoming fifth season as a series regular, giving life to Salome, an ancient vampire who is a world class seductress and fiercely intelligent. She also has quite a lot of madness in her. She is the most powerful person in every way yet capable of hiding this power when it serves her purposes.
She’s a powerful ancient vampire and a world-class seductress who’s also a little mad. So she’ll fit right into Bon Temps.
Are we looking at the new villain of Season 5?
Kelly Overton (The Ring Two) and Louis Herthum (The Last Exorcism) have landed major recurring roles. Overton has been booked for six episodes and Herthum has been tapped for five.
Overton, will play a dirty, beautiful werewolf named Rikki who demands to know what’s become of the pack leader. Herthum, repped by Main Title and Progressive Artists, will play a particularly large Marine-type werewolf who refuses to bow down before the new pack leader. He is also recurring on A&E’s Longmire.
Chris Meloni will portray Roman, an ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands. Not only that, but his character is the mastermind of the mainstream movement.
Christopher Heyerdahl, who plays an ancient vampire in the Twilight Saga movies, will now play one in another screen adaptation of a popular book series — this time on TV. Heyerdahl is joining HBO’s hit vampire drama True Blood in a recurring role. He will portray Dieter Braun, an ancient, powerful vampire who plays a large part in the intelligence of the Authority and especially enjoys enhanced interrogation.
Matthew Glen Johnson has been cast as Team Captain 1. From the casting call:
[TEAM CAPTAIN #1] Seen in flashback, this 12-year-old boy is a bully who doesn’t pick Sookie for his kick ball team…1 line, 1 scene
Aaron Christian Howles has been cast as Holly Cleary’s son, Rocky. From the casting call:
[ROCKY] 16, Caucasian, a hunter, he is Holly’s (Lauren Bowles) eldest son who doesn’t think very highly of Holly…7 lines, 1 scene POSSIBLE RECURRING
Jamie Gray Hyder has been cast as Danielle. From the casting call:
[DANIELLE] This female werewolf wonders how much longer a prisoner is going to last under interrogation…1 line, 1 scene POSSIBLE RECURING
Giles Matthey has landed the role Claude, a British fairy. One report has said that Claude will catch Jessica’s interest and attention in the upcoming season, but that’s not confirmed. Claude was previously played by Neil Hopkins in True Blood season 4.
Cherilyn Wilson will be portraying the role of Cammy. From the casting call:
[CAMMY] This sorority girl with an especially hot body takes a liking to Jason (Ryan Kwanten) at a party and assumes they’ll be having sex…
Brandon James will be portraying “Boy.” From the casting call:
[BOY] 14, determined, hurt, and angry, he punches Jason in the face for sleeping with his mom and breaking up his parents…6 lines, 1 scene
Peter Mensah has signed on for the fifth season of “True Blood” as Kibwe, a Chancellor for the Authority. The story notes that Kibwe hails from Africa and that he is working towards “mainstreaming” the Authority.
Jacob Hopkins will play Alexander Drew in Season 5, Episode 2. From the casting call:
[ALEXANDER] 9 years old. An impetuous young vampire who was turned at the age of 9, he’s an Authority council member who loves cigarettes and razzing his fellow council members…RECURRING
Actor Jonathan Kowalsky joined the cast of the fifth season of True Blood. He will play the character of Todd Jeffries, a Marine’s comrade-in-arms of Terry (Todd Lowe) and Patrick (Scott Folley) casting calls 5 × 04 episode “We’ll Meet Again” and episode 5 × 05 “Boot N ‘ Rally Ally” described thusly:
[TODD JEFFRIES]: seen in a flashback set in Iraq in 2003, this Marine joins the team (which includes Patrick and Terry) on a journey to a small village, where their plans to celebrate and cause a bit of chaos goes tragically awry. 5 lines, 1 scene
Carolyn Hennesy has been cast as Rosalyn Harris, a Texas vampire with “hair high enough to interfere with air traffic.” Rosalyn is an Authority council member with a homespun wisdom-spouting mouth and a firm hand.
The character of Rosalyn will appear first in the second episode of True Blood season 5, “Authority Always Wins.” This is a recurring role.
Erin Alexis has been cast as Washcloth Helen.
[WASHCLOTH HELEN] 20s to early 30s. Seen in flashback to 1905 in San Francisco, she’s a young prostitute who snorts cocaine…2 lines, 1 scene
Honey Lauren has been cast as Trixie.
Alissa Ford has been cast as Prisoner Kate.
[KATE] Late 20s-early 30s. Skinny, unconscious, Kate is one of the prisoners with the Scrawny Man in the padded cell. No lines in this episode, RECURRING
Camilla Luddington, who portrayed Kate Middleton in the Lifetime movie, “William and Kate,” has landed a recurring role on the upcoming season of HBO’s vampire drama True Blood, which will have a special focus on fairies. Luddington will play Claudette, one of Claude’s (Giles Matthey) many sisters, who gives Sookie insight into what it means to be a faerie.
:O oh my god~! she’s so pretty!!! i can’t wait to see season 5
Can’t wait for season 5 why does it have to take a year for a next season to come sometimes when it takes so long you lose your viewers I love this movie Love to see Eric and sookie together however don’t like the Gay scenes
this seasons ganna be great. Thats all i have to say
Salome is so beautiful, i can`t wait to see S5- I hope they continue with the storylines of S4
I have a chance to be part from True Blood season 5 team?
I’m SO stoked because Chris Meloni is joining the cast. I was devastated when he quit Law & Order SVU! He really made that show. He used to be in OZ on HBO and it was some time before I could accept him as a police officer not a wildly crazed criminal!!! I was unable to watch Season 4 couldn’t afford HBO or anything! My computer wouldn’t allow me to watch it online either so I’m anxiously awaiting for it to come on video!!!! It’s kinda fun to be able to watch it all at once. The only problem I have is they have gone SO FAR from the books. Ms Harris truly is a gifted writer and her books are really perfection for me. I think Alan Ball is a unreal also, BUT remember the say why fix something that’s not broke? I think it fits here. But I’ll hold any comments till I see it. The main reason is a friend of mine who also loves the books was thrilled with this season (but not as much as the past ones – but still thrilled). I also have to say I lost the web site when my computer crashed but I found it tonight due to the post. Thanx and I’ll be back you guys are awesome!!
Great news about Chris Meloni joining the True Blood family, Law and Order SVU is not the same without him so not only do we get to see him as a vampire maybe we will get to see MORE of him. :)
Can’t wait for June been watching the DVD’s of past seasons and let me tell you I can never get to much of seeing Eric. 2012 is going to be a great year for True Blood, but let’s not lose any of the main crew. I hope Eric and Sookie will still have feelings pumping for each other. You also need to get Jason back on track, I miss his wisps of wisdom. Thanx for all the past seasons and lets hope for many more.
S5. Waiting sucks!
Huh. Seems they’re making the whole “what happened to my sister Debbie” plot over to “what happened to Marcus.” ok. I don’t recall a Salome in the books, but still.. can’t wait for Season 5. I do hope they write Sookie better in this season. I mean this whole thing was supposed to be from Sookie’s standpoint wasn’t it? How about the faeries?? Will we see Sookie’s great(x?) grand dad?
@ MLionheart
Totally Agree! I really curious as to how they plan on doing all this! The whole thing with Debbie’s sister doesn’t even seem to be on the menu! I thought that it was a bit soon to bring in the whole fairy thing. Didn’t that happen in like book 6 or 7? Some friends and I actually got to meet Charlaine Harris and she said if they did bring the great(and so on) grand dad into the series that her choice would be David Bowie. I could see that. But there are a serious amount of questions going on here!
Salome was Mickey’s maker, who was the vamp boyfriend of Tara. A person mentioned only, since Eric talked to her on the phone in Sookie’s presence.
They killed Claudine way too soon to make most if the story lines work!!!
WHY CANT I BE CASTED IN TRUE BLOOD????????????
What about QUINN?
Heather.
Sing. Talk. Bite.
there’s a vampire kid…
Yeah, look up, he’s in the list… Jacob Hopkins.
ITs worth noting that except for Claude, Sookie’s Cousin in the books, and housemate, NONE of the characters are from the book. There is no Quinn, no Amelia, no Sandra (Debbies sister), no Neale (great grandfather), no Tray, no Catamaindes the Lawyer, no Charles Twilling (vampire), And i could go on. In the past, as each season has steered more from the books to some extent, at least you got to see the characters from the book. Unless they are NOT releasing the names of the new characters that came from the books (Which I doubt somehow), then Seaon 5 will have basically nothing to do with DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. Maybe that will be taking this show so far away from the books, that little will be left that reminds us of Charlaine’s Sookie. I feel that even if they do want to move the plot away from whats going on in the books, they should AT LEAST ground it with the characters, and the vaguest of plot outlines from the book. If there’s nothing from the books, a lot of book fans will get too iritated to watch. TooBad.
where is QUINN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, Claudine was killed. Not Claudette. Look at the last cast member on this list. I am thrilled!! I had no understanding of the Claudine character. I was under the impression she was a quickly done in version of Claudette (and disappointed by it) but I am oh so glad to be wrong! It does appear they’re switching out Debbie for Marcus, though I did see news sometime ago that roles for Debbies parents and sister had been cast. It seems they have done each season, aside from the first, as a mix of several different books. It is believed the child vampire in season 5 is a version of Alexi from Dead in the Family. Perhaps they will bring Quinn and Great Grandfather in at some point. With Claudette & Claude just being introduced, it gives us some time. I don’t really mind that the show is different. I know what happens in the books and I don’t need to see it portrayed, word for word. I think of it as “more bang for your buck”. I do wish they would hang closer to the feeling and occasional themes. I am a monster fan of this show but season 4 in no way felt right. It left me disappointed. Not anywhere near disappointed enough to stop watching.
I’m disappointed not to see Quinn and Amelia. I really, really liked Amelia, but she doesn’t seem to be appearing. I was also hoping to see Catamaindes and the half-demon girls. I’m not surprised that Charles Twining won’t be in there because of the plot changes from season 1 (and the killing of Longshadow), Charles doesn’t have any purpose in the show. But QUINN? I’m sure they are teasing us!!?!?! How can they not put a super sexy were-tiger in there?
I do think it’s okay that they aren’t following the book exactly, but I just want the characters to be the same at least. Also, didn’t Marcus die in the 4th season? I don’t really remember. I’m reading the series not, and I sometimes get confused on what happens in the book and the show. (I should have waited to read the books…it’s only confusing me!)