Mayfair Witches: Annabeth Gish and four more join the cast of Anne Rice AMC series

Filming has begun on the AMC series Mayfair Witches, which is part of the network’s endeavor to build franchises out of the Anne Rice properties the Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches. We’ve previously heard that the series will star Alexandra Daddario (We Summon the Darkness) and Harry Hamlin (Mad Men), and now Deadline has broken the news that Annabeth Gish (Rim of the World), Tongayi Chrisu (Palm Springs), Beth Grant (No Country for Old Men), Erica Gimpel (God Friended Me), and Jen Richards (Her Story) have also joined the cast.

Gish is taking on the recurring role of Diedre, Chrisu is series regular Citroen, Grant is the recurring Carlotta, Gimpel is the recurring Ellie, and Richards is Jojo. Deadline didn’t say whether the Jojo role is regular or recurring.

Rice’s three Mayfair Witches books center on

an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.

First published in 1990 with The Witching Hour, the Mayfair Witches trilogy also includes sequels Lasher (1993) and Taltos (1994).

Daddario is playing Rowan, “a brilliant doctor who grapples with her fate as the heir to a family of powerful witches.” Hamlin is taking on the role of Cortland Mayfair, “current reigning patriarch of the Mayfair clan with a voracious appetite for more money, more power and more life”. 

Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) is overseeing the building of AMC’s Rice franchises. Esta Spaulding and Michelle Ashford, both of whom previously worked on Masters of Sex, are writers and executive producers on Mayfair Witches, with Ashford also serving as the showrunner.

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is, of course, being filmed in New Orleans.

Have you read the Mayfair books? If so, what do you think of the cast that has been assembled for this series adaptation? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.