What the Cast of The Nevers Looks Like in Real Life

Northern Irish actress Laura Donnelly, who played Jenny Murray in the first three seasons of Outlander and was nominated for a 2019 Tony Award for her role in The Ferryman, leads The Nevers cast as Amalia True, a premonition-prone widow who co-runs the orphanage (and protects its members) with her best friend Penance Adair.

Irish actress Ann Skelly, who was in Vikings and the BBC's recent Little Women, is Penance Adair, a brilliant inventor who is both religiously devout and progressive. Her special ability? She can see electricity.

Veteran British actress Olivia Williams's on-screen credits include Wes Anderson's Rushmore, The Sixth Sense, and, most recently, The Father, which is nominated for six Oscars. In The Nevers, she is socialite Lavinia Bidlow, who supports "the Touched" and funds their orphanage.

British-Nigerian actor Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds, Harriet) is Horatio Cousens, the orphanage's resident doctor and the rare man in The Nevers universe with a special touch: healing powers.

James Norton, who was in Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation of Little Women and will next star alongside Amanda Seyfried in the upcoming Netflix horror film Things Heard & Seen, plays Hugo Swann, a bored and enterprising aristocrat who runs a brothel to capitalize on the rich's fascination with "the Touched."

Scottish actress Amy Manson (Once Upon a Time, The White Princess) is the unstable and murderous Maladie, who, as befits her name, derives her power from pain. She is now a serial killer living underground and leads a group of "Touched" villains.

English actor Ben Chaplin, who most recently starred in The Dig with Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, and Lily James, is Frank Mundi, a gruff detective prone to violent outbursts and drinking binges whose saving grace is his strong moral compass.

English actor Pip Torrens will be familiar to devotees of The Crown: he was Tommy Lascelles, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth, in seasons one through three. In The Nevers, he is former military man Lord Massen, as ardent a supporter of the British Empire as he is a detractor of "the Touched."

Acclaimed American Horror Story actor Denis O'Hare plays the part of Edmund Hague, a deranged American doctor hellbent on figuring out how the women's special abilities work.