Among a sea of sitcoms and procedurals, Evil followed three investigators for the Catholic church, who’d been tasked with deciding whether or not several odd occurrences around New York City were due to demonic possession and other supernatural meddling.
Colter was likely very familiar to you because of coming to Evil nearly right off of his role as the lead superhero on one of Marvel’s acclaimed Netflix shows, Luke Cage, which ran for two seasons.
Mike Colter has also been on the big screen in films like Million Dollar Baby, Men in Black 3, Zero Dark Thirty, Girls Trip, and Black and Blue.
Kristen Bouchard is one of Evil’s resident skeptics, and Katja Herbers plays to perfection the forensic psychologist with all of her doubts and determination to get to the real truth behind their cases.
Now we have Evil skeptic Number 2, Ben Shakir, the team’s technical expert who tries to find out if their cases are actually related to mechanical mischief or environmental factors.
And, if you haven’t seen Emerson in the past decade or so, you may not have watched television during that time, because he’s known for his turns as the leader of the Others, Ben Linus, on Lost, and for his five seasons on Person of Interest.
Lahti has been in a number of well-known and beloved TV shows and movies since she made her television debut in 1978, and has had major roles on series like Chicago Hope, Jack & Bobby, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Blacklist, and Hawaii Five-O.
The actress has also appeared in shows like Life on Mars, Nurse Jackie, The Good Wife, The Whispers, Prodigal Son, and the daytime soaps Guiding Light and As the World Turns, with film appearances in Mona Lisa Smile, Meet Dave, The Happening, Revolutionary Road, The Cabin in the Woods, and others.
He also voices Uncle Rad on the animated show Bluey, and has been seen in shows like Lodge 49, New Girl, Life in Pieces, Glitch, The Letdown, Offspring and others, and has appeared in films like The Little Death, Fun Mom Dinner, and Overlord.
As Kristen and Andy’s potentially demonic daughter Lexis, Maddy Crocco’s time on Evil only seems to be guaranteed to get weirder in Season 2.
Dalya Knapp plays another of Kristen and Andy’s four excitable daughters, Laura.
Oldest daughter Lynn is played by Brooklyn Shuck, who, in addition to her many Broadway roles, has been working on screen more since her 2014 appearance in the film Thou Wast Mild and Lovely.
Her film credits include Now Is Everything in 2019 with Anthony Hopkins, and the shorts The Classiest President, The House That Wasn’t There, Condemned, and more.
Johnson will be very recognizable to fans who also enjoyed Homicide: Life on the Street, where he played Meldrick Lewis for the entire seven seasons, as well as viewers of The Wire , who watched him as newspaper editor Augustus ‘Gus’ Haynes during Season 5.
Law, Quantum Leap, NewsRadio, Diagnosis Murder, Chicago Hope, Dharma & Greg, The West Wing, Felicity, Alias, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, Scandal, Parenthood, and had memorable roles as coroner Woody Strode on Psych, Judge Peter Dunaway on The Good Wife, and high-ranking angel Zachariah on Supernatural.
He’s had major roles on shows such as Person of Interest, Boardwalk Empire, House of Cards, and recent series For Life, and one of the best Apple TV+ shows to watch, Servant.
Last, but in no way least, we have Marti Matulis, who will be completely unrecognizable to you, unless you’re able to discern the man’s true face from his heavily masked performances as the creepy night demon George, who terrorizes Kristen, and his work as Leland’s extremely horned devil beast of a therapist / possible demonic leader.