The undisputed king of nightmares.
Your favorite Shadowhunter.
Even the infamous faceless man.
You’ll never guess who’s showing up to join the interdimensional chaos of the fourth
season of Netflix’s beloved sci-fi series “Stranger Things”.
Keep watching to find out why these new cast members look so familiar.
As the leader of Hawkins High School's Hellfire Club – aka the Dungeons and Dragons group
– Eddie Munson is a proud outsider with a knack for theatricality.
The metalhead teen with a mane of frizzed-out hair plays a major part in the show's fourth
season, but you've never seen the actor behind the role quite like this before.
“bleh/Blah”
British actor Joseph Quinn, who plays Eddie, is to date most known for the kind of period
dramas Eddie himself would hate.
He's played Arthur Havisham in the Charles Dickens universe series "Dickensian," Leonard
Bast in a recent adaptation of "Howard's End," Enjolras in BBC One's 2019 take on "Les Miserables,"
and Prince Paul in "Catherine the Great."
Affable stoner Argyle injects some "Dazed and Confused" into the new season of "Stranger
Things."
The super-chill teen works at Surfer Boy Pizzas and becomes a friend of Jonathan's after the
Byers family moves to California.
Actor Eduardo Franco is instantly recognizable thanks to his impressive mane of hair and
general good vibes.
“What do you think, Byers?
I call it a weeder.
You get it, man?
Like a feeder?”
Franco has popped up in a handful of teen-centric titles over the past few years, and has made
a strong impression every time.
His first breakout role was in Netflix's hilarious true crime mockumentary series "American Vandal,"
where he played a student named Spencer.
The next year, he kept the body humor going with "The Package."
This one's a bawdy teen comedy about a spring break camping trip that goes awry when Franco's
character, Jeremy, accidentally cuts off his own genitalia.
Seriously.
That's really the plot.
At any rate, you probably know him most from "Booksmart," where he plays super-senior Theo.
"Stranger Things" welcomes a horror legend into the fold this year with the addition
of Robert Englund to the cast.
“I am still very much in Hell.”
Englund plays a man named Victor Creel, a shadowy character who was put away in a psychiatric
hospital after being found responsible for a gruesome murder back in the 1950s.
Now, he's a haunted – and haunting – old man with stitched up wounds where his eyes
should be.
Englund is one of the most recognizable figures in horror history, having played nightmare-haunting
villain Freddy Kreuger in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" films.
He also has a wonderfully meta turn in the 1998 slasher "Urban Legend," where he plays
a professor of folklore.
Englund has had many, many memorable roles throughout his decades-long career, from his
breakout role in the popular 1983 miniseries "V" to voice work for animated series like
"The Batman" and "The Spectacular Spider-Man."
You can also spot some of Englund's earliest work in Tobe Hooper's crocodile horror flick
"Eaten Alive," where he plays a local deviant named Buck.
Jamie Campbell Bower plays Peter, a friendly orderly at a psychiatric hospital.
The initial Twitter post casting announcement from back in 2020 described his character
as such:
“[Peter] is tired of the brutality he witnesses day after day.
Will Peter finally take a stand?"
“I asked you to wait.”
Bower comes into "Stranger Things" with a fervent fanbase of his own, stemming in large
part from his turn as hunky Shadowhunter Jace in an adaptation of Cassandra Clare's popular
book series, titled "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones."
In fact, the actor has starred in several fan-favorite franchises, playing a young Gellert
Grindelwald in the "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" movies and the Volturi
leader Caius in the "Twilight" films.
His breakout role came in 2007, when he played the sweet-voiced suiter Anthony, pining for
his imprisoned love, in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Grace Van Dien plays Chrissy, a seemingly perfect and popular cheerleader.
As the casting announcement for the character points out:
“Beneath the seemingly perfect surface lies a dark secret."
“Chrissy!
Chrissy, open the door!”
You may recognize Van Dien from the Manson family murders film "Charlie Says," where
she played ill-fated actress Sharon Tate.
She also played student Brooke in the first two seasons of the Netflix teen mystery "Greenhouse
Academy," and pregnant teen Katie in the short-lived NBC show "The Village."
Every '80s teen movie needs a star athlete to contrast all its average-joe characters
against, and this year, that's Jason.
The privileged jock seems to have it all – success, popularity, and a seemingly perfect girlfriend.
“Chrissy?
Chrissy, I love you, babe.”
That is, until Hawkins falls prey to a new villain.
If you were part of the "Teen Wolf" sensation that swept the nation when the MTV show aired
from 2011 to 2017, you likely caught Dye playing an assassin-slash-lacrosse player named Garrett
in the show's fourth season.
Dye also took on the challenging role of abused teen Chris in an adaptation of V.C.
Andrews' controversial book "Flowers in the Attic" in 2014.
The actor has also had significant roles in MTV's "Finding Carter" and the popular Prime
Video series "Bosch."
Regina Ting Chen plays the guidance counselor Ms. Kelly.
She's a compassionate woman who's hoping to help out a few different students who are
struggling this season.
“And it’s okay to not be okay.
But I can only help you if you’re truthful, if you open up to me.”
This could end up being a breakout role for Chen, who has had short appearances in lots
of great projects in recent years.
The actor has so far appeared most often playing news reporters, and can be spotted in TV series
such as "Black Lightning” and Marvel’s "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.”
Joining the ever-growing force of grown-ups who are trying to keep the Hawkins kids from
getting into trouble, Sherman Augustus plays Lt. Colonel Sullivan in the new season.
If you haven’t binged the new season already, you know from the trailers that there is possible
military involvement in its epic new plot.
Augustus' casting announcement calls his character a, quote, "intelligent, no-nonsense man who
believes he knows how to stop the evil in Hawkins once and for all."
“Which explanation sounds plausible to you?”
You might know Augustus from AMC's post-apocalyptic martial arts show "Into the Badlands," where
he plays a warrior named Nathaniel Moon.
The actor also appears as Marshall Pruitt in season one of "Westworld," where he shows
up during a tense standoff in the Western-themed park.
The actor has also appeared in recurring roles in "Low Winter Sun," "American Odyssey," and
even the long-running soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
Amybeth McNulty plays band geek Vickie in the new season.
McNulty is making the jump from one beloved Netflix property to another: she starred as
country girl Anne in "Anne with an E," the streamers much-loved adaptation of "Anne of
Green Gables."
Though the show ended after three seasons, it gained a steadfast fan base that will surely
follow McNulty to "Stranger Things."
The actor has also appeared in the kidnapping drama series "Clean Break."
Myles Truitt plays Patrick in the fourth installment of "Stranger Things”, a basketball star
who plays on the Hawkins High team alongside Lucas and inevitably gets involved in the
interdimensional madness.
"Hey, don’t say that."
You may have caught Truitt in the second season of "Black Lightning," where the actor plays
a teen named Issa who comes back to life after becoming the victim of fatal police violence.
Additionally, Truitt played Ant in the drama series "Queen Sugar."
His big break, though, came in the 2018 sci-fi movie "Kin," where Truitt starred as a teen
who discovers a mysterious weapon along with his brother, Jimmy.
The very first footage from "Stranger Things" season four teased Hopper's imprisonment in
Russia, and the last two new cast members both relate to his plotline.
Tom Wlaschiha plays Dmitri, a clever prison guard who could be charming – or maybe just
cunning.
“I get rich, and you are a free man.
Sounds too good to be true, yes?”
Wlaschiha is among the most recognizable of the new cast members, having embodied the
trickster figure Jaqen H'ghar across three seasons of "Game of Thrones."
Jaqen first appears as an enigmatic, face-changing assassin early in Arya Stark's journey, then
he — or someone with his face – subjects her to a merciless training regimen in Braavos
a few seasons later.
You may also recognize the German actor from his appearance in Prime Video's "Jack Ryan.”
Nikola Djuricko plays another Russian character in the new season — a smuggler named Yuri.
Yuri sounds pretty shady, but he also loves corny jokes and peanut butter, so he can't
be all bad, right?
“I love the smell of cash in the morning!”
Djuricko has popped up in plenty of projects over the years, most recently playing USSR
astronaut Stepan Petrovich Alexseev in the Apple TV+ alternate history series "For All
Mankind."
The Serbian actor has had roles in many non-English language projects, and his credits also include
the TNT series "Legends" and Sundance TV's "The Last Panthers."
Additionally, actors Elodie Grace Orkin, Logan Riley Bruner, and Logan Allen make appearances
in season four.
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