True Detective season 3 cast: Who is in the cast of True Detective?

The highly-anticipated third season of True Detective arrived back on Sky Atlantic this morning (January 14) after it was simulcast with HBO in the US. The season premiere will now air again tonight (January 14) in the UK and Ireland on Sky Atlantic at 9pm. Here’s a look at the cast for the new outing.

Who is in the cast of True Detective season 3?

Detective Wayne Hays – Mahershala Ali

Oscar winner Mahershala Ali leads the cast for the latest outing of the acclaimed crime series.

Season three has thus far been warmly received by critics following a disappointing second run.

More reminiscent of season one, this time around the story will focus on one central lead rather than the buddy cop set-up previously established with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Ali takes on the role of Detective Wayne Hays in season three.

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True Detective season 3 cast: Mahershala Ali

True Detective season 3 cast: Mahershala Ali (Image: Sky)

The character is a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas investigating a missing children case.

The series spans three decades, with Ali playing the character at different ages and different times in his life.

Speaking at the world premiere of the series in LA, Ali said his season focuses mostly on one detective.

“It focuses more on one detective but it definitely has the help and support and the presence of both a female cop-who-isn’t-a-cop in Carmen Ejogo, who is very much involved and invested in the investigation, and Stephen Dorff as well.”

True Detective season 3 cast: Mahershala Ali

True Detective season 3 cast: Mahershala Ali (Image: Sky)

Detective Roland West – Stephen Dorff

Blade actor Stephen Dorff stars as another detective in season three.

His character is described as being an Arkansas State Investigator whose career has been influenced by a baffling crime.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, creator Nic Pizzolatto said: “Roland can be emotive, and Wayne is very controlled and modulates himself with this kind of guarded vigilance.”

True Detective season 3 cast: Stephen Dorff

True Detective season 3 cast: Stephen Dorff (Image: Sky)

Amelia Reardon – Carmen Ejogo

Carmen Ejogo from the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films stars as Amelia Reardon.

Amelia is a schoolteacher who is connected to the missing children case.

She is also married to Detective Wayne Hays and lives in Arkansas.

Speaking about her role, Ejogo said: “I almost become like a third detective in trying to research it. I really am very pivotal in getting to the bottom of what happened to those children.”

She added: “The whole show, in the end, is a meditation on love, time, memory and how people stay together. In the end, the relationship he (Ali) and I have is really what the show is about.”

True Detective season 3 cast: Carmen Ejogo

True Detective season 3 cast: Carmen Ejogo (Image: Sky)

Additional cast members include Josh Hopkins, who will play Jim Dobkins, a private attorney in Fayetteville, Arkansas involved in deposing state police detectives in an ongoing investigation.

Scoot McNairy is Tom, a father who suffers a terrible loss which ties his fate to that of two state police detectives over 10 years.

Mamie Gummer stars as Lucy Purcell, a young mother of two at the centre of a tragic crime.

Jodi Balfour, Lonnie Chavis, Ray Fisher, Michael Greyeyes, Jon Tenney, Rhys Wakefield, Sarah Gadon also star.

Other cast members include Emily Nelson, Brandon Flynn and Michael Graziadei also star.

True Detective season 3 cast

True Detective season 3 cast (Image: Sky)

True Detective season 3 cast: Scoot McNairy

True Detective season 3 cast: Scoot McNairy (Image: Sky)

What is the plot of True Detective season 3?

The synopsis from HBO reads: “Creator Nic Pizzolatto is taking his anthology series to the Ozarks for season three.

“Stephen Dorff (Somewhere, Immortals) is set to play Arkansas State Investigator Roland West, joining Oscar winner Mahershala Ali and actor Carmen Ejogo (Selma, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them).

“Ali and Dorff will play partner detectives on the case of a macabre crime that spans three decades. Ejogo will play a schoolteacher named Amelia Reardon, who is connected to two missing children.”

True Detective season 3 premieres on January 13 on HBO and January 14 on Sky Atlantic

source: express.co.uk