What We Do in the Shadows

Series Details:

Cast & Character:

Main

• Kayvan Novak as Nandor the Relentless
• Matt Berry as Leslie “Laszlo” Cravensworth
• Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxos
  • Demetriou also plays Nadja’s human ghost
• Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz
• Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson (and Baby Colin / “The Boy”)
• Kristen Schaal as The Guide (Floating Woman)

Recurring

• Anthony Atamanuik as Sean Rinaldi
• Beanie Feldstein as Jenna
• Doug Jones as Baron Afanas
• Nick Kroll as Simon the Devious
• Jake McDorman as Jeff Suckler
• Vanessa Bayer as Evie Russell
• Marceline Hugot as Barbara Lazarro
• Marissa Jaret Winokur as Charmaine Rinaldi
• Anoop Desai as Djinn
• Parisa Fakhri as Marwa
• Chris Sandiford as Derek
• Myrna Cabello as Silvia de la Cruz
• Haley Joel Osment as Topher
• Benedict Wong as Wallace
• Frankie Quiñones as Miguel
• Veronika Slowikowska as Shanice
• Mike O’Brien as Jerry the Vampire
• Tim Heidecker as Jordan

Guests

• Season 1
  • Arj Barker as Arjan
  • Dave Bautista and Alexandra Henrikson as Garrett and Vasillika the Defiler
  • Mary Gillis as June
  • Jeremy O. Harris as Colby
  • Gloria Laino as The Baron’s Familiar
  • Paul Reubens as Paul
  • Tilda Swinton as herself (leader of the Vampiric Council)
  • Wesley Snipes as Wesley the Daywalker / Wesley Sykes
  • Hayden Szeto as Jonathan
  • Danny Trejo as Danny
  • Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, and Jemaine Clement as Viago von Dorna Schmarten Scheden Heimburg, Deacon Brucke, and Vladislav the Poker
  • Bobby Wilson as Marcus
  • Evan Rachel Wood as Evan the Immortal Princess of the Undead
  • Hannan Younis as Ange
• Season 2
  • James Frain as the voice of Black Peter
  • Mark Hamill as Jim the Vampire
  • Greta Lee as Celeste
  • Lucy Punch as Lilith
  • Craig Robinson as Claude
• Season 3
  • Julie Klausner and Cole Escola as The Gargoyles
  • Lauren Collins as Meg
  • Tyler Alvarez as Wes Blankenship
  • Aida Turturro as Gail
  • Catherine Cohen as Sheila
  • Scott Bakula as himself
  • Cree Summer as Jan
  • Donal Logue as a fictionalized vampire version of himself
  • Khandi Alexander as Contessa Carmilla De Mornay
  • David Cross as Dominykas the Dreadful
• Season 4
  • Affion Crockett as Richie Suck
  • Fred Armisen as Doctor DJ Tom Schmidt
  • Sal Vulcano as himself
  • Sklar Brothers as Toby and Bran
  • Al Roberts as Freddie
  • Sofia Coppola as herself
  • Thomas Mars as himself
  • Jim Jarmusch as himself
  • Michael McDonald as Gustave Leroy
• Season 5
  • Robert Smigel as Alexander, a man Nandor befriends at the gym
  • Hannibal Buress as a member of the energy vampire council
  • Aparna Nancherla as a member of the energy vampire council
  • Martha Kelly as the chair of the energy vampire council
  • Gregg Turkington as a member of the energy vampire council
  • Jo Firestone as a member of the energy vampire council
  • John Slattery as himself
  • Wayne Federman as a vampire urgent care doctor
  • Kerri Kenney-Silver as Helen “The Magic Woman” Johnson
  • Patton Oswalt as himself

Storyline:

Traditional vampires Nandor, Laszlo, and Nadja, together with energy vampire Colin Robinson, share a Staten Island residence, maintained by Nandor’s familiar Guillermo. The vampires routinely clash with the modern world, other supernatural beings, and/or each other, while Guillermo earnestly endeavors to balance his loyalty to Nandor with his desire to become a vampire, complicated by his ancestry as a descendant of vampire hunter Van Helsing.

About Series:

On January 22, 2018, FX ordered a pilot for the series, written by Jemaine Clement and directed by Taika Waititi, both of whom also served as executive producers alongside Scott Rudin, Paul Simms, Garrett Basch, and Eli Bush. On May 3, 2018, FX gave the series a full-season order of ten episodes.

Principal photography for the first season took place from October 22 to December 18, 2018, in Toronto, Ontario. Filming for the third season started on February 8, 2021, and concluded on May 3, 2021.

Teaser trailers were released on October 31, 2018, followed by another on January 10, 2019, and the official trailer on February 4, 2019.

The first season premiered on March 27, 2019, and the second season on April 15, 2020. FX renewed the series for a third season on May 22, 2020, which premiered on September 2, 2021. Ahead of the third season’s premiere, the series was renewed for a fourth season on August 13, 2021. However, it was reported that Rudin would no longer be an executive producer starting with season three due to allegations of abusive behavior.

On June 6, 2022, FX renewed the series for fifth and sixth seasons ahead of the fourth season premiere. On December 19, 2023, it was announced that the sixth season would be the final season, with filming concluding in May 2024.

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