When Fargo, the 1996 film, hit cinemas, it earned the great Frances McDormand her first Oscar, reminded everyone why Steve Buscemi is such an exceptional character actor, and made the most of both William H. Macy and Peter Stormare as well. So when the Coen brothers movie was revived in 2014 as a TV anthology series, the resulting show clearly had some very big shoes to fill cast-wise.
Across three seasons to date, thats a task that Fargos small-screen iteration has easily achieved. The first season not only starred Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman and Colin Hanks, but also featured Bob Odenkirk,Keith Carradine,Joey King,Glenn Howerton,Kate Walsh,Adam Goldberg,Oliver Platt,Keegan-Michael Key andJordan Peele.
Across the second and third seasons, everyone fromKirsten Dunst,Patrick Wilson,Jesse Plemons,Jean Smart andTed Danson to Ewan McGregor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Carrie Coon and David Thewlis has also led the charge with Cristin Milioti,Brad Garrett,Bokeem Woodbine,Nick Offerman,Kieran Culkin, Michael Stuhlbarg,Hamish Linklater,Scoot McNairy,Ray Wise,Fred Melamed andFrances Fisher making appearances, too.
With Fargo now returning for its long-awaited fourth season screening on SBS and at SBS On Demand from Thursday 8 October its continuing as it always has: with a stellar slate of on-screen talent. Between them, theyve evoked laughs on Saturday Night Live, weathered Chernobyls bleakness and popped up in plenty of symmetrically framed Wes Anderson movies.
Heres your whos who guide to this impressive line-up.
Chris Rock as Loy Cannon. Source: SBS
Stand-up comic, three-season SNL star, two-time Oscars host, big-screen comedy go-to thanks to all of the above, Chris Rocks resume has sprawled far and wide over the past three decades. On screen, he has everything from New Jack City and Dogma to Pootie Tang and Grown Ups to his name, as well as voice work in the Madagascar films and writing, directing and starring in reflective comedy Top Five.
If playing self-made African American crime syndicate head Loy Cannon in Fargos fourth season seems like a departure from Rocks usual roles, at least of late, thats a trend he seems to be embracing. After his small-screen stint, hell be seen in the latest Saw film, Spiral, which is actually based on his own idea for the horror franchise.
Glynn Turman as Doctor Senator. Source: SBS
From acting opposite Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, to starring in 1970s blaxploitation flicks, to playing Baltimores mayor on The Wire, Glynn Turmans career hasnt been short on variety. Peyton Place and A Different World also feature on his small-screen resume, as do In Treatment, How to Get Away with Murder and Mr Mercedes. And, in cinema, Turman has featured in films as varied as Cooley High, Gremlins, Super 8, Bumblebee and The Way Back.
As Doctor Senator in Fargo, Turman plays Loys closest friend, as well as his crime outfits second-in-charge.
Jessie Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower. Source: SBS
If it wasnt for 2008 British talent show Id Do Anything, Jessie Buckley mightnt be a star. The TV series searched for a new actor to feature in a West End revival of Oliver! When Buckley came in second, it kickstarted her career. Since then, she has featured in the 2016 version of War & Peace, opposite Tom Hardy in Taboo, and in 2019s hit mini-series Chernobyl. It was her award-winning performance in 2017s Beast, as well as her turn in 2018s Wild Rose, that heartily surveyed her on-screen talents, however. This year, she also leads Charlie Kaufmans Im Thinking of Ending Things alongside Fargo season 2s Jesse Plemons.
In Fargo, Buckley plays Oraetta Mayflower, a Minnesota nurse who calls herself an angle of mercy.
Jason Schwartzman as Josto Fadda. Source: SBS
Since playing one of cinemas most enthusiastic high schoolers in Rushmore, Schwartzman has been a Wes Anderson regular, featuring in six of the directors subsequent films. But, from affable private detective comedy Bored to Death and fellow TV series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, to Marie Antoinette, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Listen Up Phillip, Schwartzman hasnt been short on other projects.
His latest: Fargos Josto Fadda, the self-entitled heir to the Fadda crime family aka Loys nemesis.
Ben Whishaw as Rabbi Milligan. Source: SBS
From Ben Whishaws lengthy resume, many a role stands out: his performance as Lord Sebastian Flyte in 2008s Brideshead Revisited, playing poet John Keats in Bright Star, his three-film role as Q in the Bond series, his voice work as loveable marmalade-coveting bear Paddington and his efforts in miniseries A Very English Scandal. He was desperate to find a match in The Lobster, one of the grown-up Banks children in Mary Poppins Returns and the weasely Uriah Heep in The Personal History of David Copperfield, too.
In Fargo, his character Patrick Rabbi Milligan is the adopted son of Fadda crime family head Donatello. And yes, the name Milligan has popped up in the series before, thanks to Bookem Woodbines Mike Milligan in season 2 a man with links to Kansas City.
Emyri Crutchfield as Ethelrida Pearl Smutny. Source: SBS
Emyri Crutchfield made her acting debut in 2015s Vacation remake and, half a decade on, her career is still just getting started. That said, she featured in sports comedy series The Kicks, has popped up in both True Detective and the rebooted Amazing Stories, and earned a NAACP Image Award nomination for 2016s Roots.
As Ethelrida Pearl Smutny, a 16-year-old eager to go somewhere in life, Crutchfield narrates Fargos fourth season.
Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Marshal Dick Deafy Wickware. Source: SBS
Thanks to both Deadwood and Justified, Timothy Olyphant has given 21st-century television two of its best authority figures. In Santa Clarita Diet, he went in a completely different direction as the often law-skirting husband to a new zombie. Other career highlights include Scream 2, Go and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, as well as small roles in both Rango and The Good Place that playfully nod to his most famous small-screen parts.
Unsurprisingly, Olyphant plays a US Marshal in Fargo hes Dick Deafy Wickware hailing from Utah and determined in his efforts to bring down Kansas Citys criminals.
Jack Huston as Detective Odis Weff. Source: SBS
For four seasons on Boardwalk Empire, Jack Huston was in the thick of a sprawling period crime drama. Featuring in season 4 of Fargo is almost like returning to familiar territory, then. Elsewhere, the grandson of Hollywood great John Huston has popped up in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, played Jack Kerouac in Kill Your Darlings, taken on the title role in 2014s Ben-Hur remake, and appeared as Robert Kennedy in The Irishman and will next be seen in horror film Antebellum.
In Fargo, Hustons Odis Weff is a Second World War veteran turned Kansas City police detective.
Watch the season 4 trailer here:
An all-newFargostorywill premiere withtwo weeks ofdouble episodes,beginning8.30pm Thursday 8 October on SBS.Episodes will continueweekly at 9.30pm from Thursday 22 October. New episodes will be available atSBS On Demandeach week onthesame day as broadcast. Relive the first three standalone seasons ofFargonow atSBS On Demand.
See more here:
Who's who in the all-new 'Fargo' - SBS
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