{"id":479672,"date":"2026-06-02T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479672\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:25:09","slug":"life-is-strange-tv-series-adds-five-to-cast-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479672\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Life Is Strange’ TV Series Adds Five to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe \u201cLife Is Strange<\/a>\u201d TV series at Amazon Prime Video<\/a> has added five new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively. <\/p>\n

\n\tBilly Barratt (\u201cBring Her Back\u201d), Emily Carey (\u201cHouse of the Dragon,\u201d \u201cWonder Woman\u201d), Esther McGregor (\u201cWe Were Liars,\u201d \u201cHigh School\u201d) Faly Rakotohavana (\u201cUnPrisoned,\u201d \u201cSecret Society of Second-Born Royals\u201d), and Mia Isaac (\u201cThe Perfect Couple,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Go\u201d) have all joined the live-action adaptation of the hit video game.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey will appear alongside previously announced leads Maisy Stella and Tatum Grace Hopkins<\/a> as well as fellow cast members<\/a> Tom Cullen, Leisha Hailey, Ra\u00fal Castillo, and Owen Teague. <\/p>\n

\n\tPer the official logline, the show follows Max (Hopkins), \u201ca photography student, who discovers she can rewind time while saving the life of her childhood best friend, Chloe (Stella). As she struggles to understand this new skill, the pair investigate the mysterious disappearance of a fellow student, uncovering a dark side to their town that will ultimately force them to make an impossible life or death choice that will impact them forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBarratt will star as Nathan, one of Chloe and Max\u2019s classmates. Carey will play Victoria Chase, one of Nathan\u2019s best friends. McGregor will play Rachel Amber, the student who goes missing. Rakotohavana will play Warren, another friend of Max\u2019s. Isaac is set as Kate Marsh, a good friend of Max\u2019s. <\/p>\n

\n\tBarratt is repped by CAA, SYA, Ace MGMT, and Hansen Jacobson. Carey is repped by Curtis Brown Group. McGregor is repped by WME, Underscore Talent, Sloane Offer, and Narrative. Rakotohavana is repped by Media Artists Group, ESI Network, and Katz Public Relations. Isaac is repped by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Yorn Levine. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLife Is Strange\u201d is created by Charlie Covell, who also serves as executive producer and showrunner. Mackenzie Dohr will write and executive produce. Karyn Kusama will direct the first two episodes and executive produce under her Familystyle production banner. Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson will executive produce via Story Kitchen. Jen Roskind also executive produces, as do Dani Gorin and Natalie Berkus of LuckyChap. The series comes from Square Enix, Story Kitchen, and LuckyChap, with Amazon MGM Studios producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cLife Is Strange\u201d TV series at Amazon Prime Video has added five new cast members, Variety has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3281,93,61,60,151915,282],"class_list":["post-479672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-is-strange","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}