The Boogeyman cast is full of recognizable actors from film and television breathing life into the characters of this chilling Stephen King supernatural horror tale. Based on King’s 1973 short story of the same name, first published in the magazine Cavalier and later included in the 1978 collection Night Shift, The Boogeyman revolves around a therapist and his two daughters, who are grieving the loss of the girls’ mother. When one of the therapist’s patients shows up at their house, he leaves behind a malicious paranormal entity that begins preying on the family. The adaptation released in theaters on June 2nd, 2023.
King’s story was adapted into a screenplay by A Quiet Place creators Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman, and that script was brought to the screen by Dashcam director Rob Savage and Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy. An adaptation of The Boogeyman was in development as far back as 2018 (via Variety) and it took five years for the project to come together. From Yellowjackets’ Natalie to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s young Princess Leia to The Suicide Squad’s Polka-Dot Man, plenty of big stars from high-profile movies and TV shows appear in The Boogeyman cast.
Sophie Thatcher (Sadie) – Yellowjackets
The lead role of Sadie Harper in The Boogeyman cast, a high school student mourning the loss of her mother who is initially skeptical about the paranormal activity in her home, is played by Sophie Thatcher. Thatcher is best known for playing the teenage plane crash survivor Natalie Scatorccio in Yellowjackets. Thatcher’s other roles include young Regan in the TV adaptation of The Exorcist, Deb in Chicago Med, Becky in When the Streetlights Go On, and biker gang leader Drash in The Book of Boba Fett cast. She also played Jeanine in the movie The Tomorrow Man and starred in the music video for the Pavement song “Harness Your Hopes.”
Chris Messina (Will) – The Mindy Project
Chris Messina appears in The Boogeyman cast as therapist Will, Sadie and Sawyer’s emotionally distant father dealing with grief in his own way. Messina is best known for starring as Mindy Lahiri’s main love interest Dr. Danny Castellano in The Mindy Project. Messina has also played attorney Ted Fairwell in Six Feet Under, war veteran Chris Sanchez in Damages, Detective Richard Willis in Sharp Objects, supervillain serial killer Victor Zsasz in Birds of Prey, and Reese Lansing, the president of Atlantis World Media, in The Newsroom. He’s known for playing such real-life roles as sports rep David Falk in Air and FBI field agent Angelo Lano in Gaslit.
Vivien Lyra Blair (Sawyer) – Obi-Wan Kenobi
Sadie’s younger sister, Sawyer, who experiences the paranormal activity firsthand, is played by Vivien Lyra Blair in The Boogeyman cast. Blair is best known for her scene-stealing performance as young Leia Organa in Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries, for which she earned a Saturn Award nomination. She has also played supporting roles in a number of Netflix original movies: Guppy in the superhero movie We Can Be Heroes, Olympia in the horror movie Bird Box, and the voice of Abby in the police procedural thriller The Guilty. Blair played Alba in the video game Telling Lies and “Little Eleanor Roosevelt” in The First Lady season 1, episode 1, “That White House.”
David Dastmalchian (Lester) – The Suicide Squad
David Dastmalchian appears in The Boogeyman cast as Lester, one of Will’s patients who’s distraught over the mysterious deaths of his children. Dastmalchian is best known for his roles in superhero movies and TV shows: Polka-Dot Man in The Suicide Squad, Thomas Schiff in The Dark Knight, Abra Kadabra in The CW’s Flash series, and dual roles as Kurt and Veb in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He has also played Murdoc in the MacGyver reboot and Albert DeSalvo in Boston Strangler. He’s a frequent collaborator of Denis Villeneuve’s, having played the supporting roles of Bob Taylor in Prisoners, Coco in Blade Runner 2049, and Piter De Vries in Dune.
Marin Ireland (Rita) – The Umbrella Academy
Lester’s wife, Rita, is played by Marin Ireland in The Boogeyman cast. Ireland is best known for her turn as Vanya’s love interest Sissy Cooper in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy. She has also played the recurring TV roles of Julia Bowman, Pete’s cousin, in Sneaky Pete, and Nora Brady, former press advisor to President Ted Campbell, in Y: The Last Man. Ireland’s other movie roles include Debbie Howard in the neo-western thriller Hell or High Water, Bethany in the coming-of-age drama The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and Dolores Sheeran in the Martin Scorsese crime epic The Irishman. She most recently appeared in Birth/Rebirth and Eileen.
Madison Hu (Bethany) – Bizaardvark
Madison Hu plays Bethany in The Boogeyman cast. Hu is best known for her main role as Frankie Wong on the critically panned but popular Disney Channel sitcom Bizaardvark, and for her previous recurring role as Marci on a different Disney Channel sitcom, Best Friends Whenever. She also played Ling Quan in the dark comedy movie Bad Words and Anda in the sci-fi movie Voyagers, and guest-starred as Debbie in The Goldbergs season 2, episode 2, “Mama Drama,” and as a spelling bee contestant in Grace and Frankie season 1, episode 7, “The Spelling Bee.” She most recently appeared in the horror/thriller Night Shift as Alice.
LisaGay Hamilton (Dr. Weller) – The Practice
Dr. Weller, who works with the family after they start to experience paranormal activity, is played by LisaGay Hamilton in The Boogeyman cast. Hamilton is best known for playing Rebecca Washington in the legal procedural series The Practice. She also played Melissa Thoreau, the wife of Andre Braugher’s character Owen, in the series Men of a Certain Age. Her other film roles include Sheronda in Jackie Brown, Rose in Beautiful Boy, and Condoleezza Rice in the satirical Dick Cheney biopic Vice. In 2005, she won a Peabody Award for her work on the documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Her most recent credit is playing Evelyn Mitchell in Will Trent.
The Boogeyman Supporting Cast & Characters
Daniel Hagen as the voice of The Creature: The Creature in The Boogeyman cast is voiced by Daniel Hagen. Hagen is known for playing Rick in Seinfeld season 9, episode 11, “The Dealership,” the voice of Doctor Sivana in the direct-to-video DC Comics animated movie Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Michael Luciano in the pilot episode of the Ryan Murphy docudrama series Feud, and “The Local Pedestrian Population” in the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. His most recent credit is voicing Commander Anderzej Talarek in High Water.
Maddie Nichols as Natalie: Maddie Nichols plays Natalie in The Boogeyman cast. She previously played Kat Duncan in the Bruce Willis action movie Vendetta, Emma in the comedy thriller movie Emergency, Natasha in Echoes season 1, episode 1, “Home,” and season 1, episode 3, “Party,” and Wanda Davidson in The Outsider season 1, episode 8, “Foxhead,” and season 1, episode 9, “Tigers and Bears.”
Mabel Tyler as Abby: Abby is played by Mabel Tyler in The Boogeyman cast. Tyler has previously played young Scarlett in Nashville season 2, episode 19, “Crazy,” young Angela in Mr. Robot season 2, episode 11, “eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z” and season 3, episode 6, “eps3.5_kill-pr0cess.inc,” and Laura in Cruel Summer season 2, episode 1. She also recently had a role in The Bad Seed Returns.
Leeann Ross as Cassidy: Leeann Ross appears in The Boogeyman cast as Cassidy. Ross has also played young Dora in Lovecraft Country season 1, episode 9, “Rewind 1921,” Claire Driscoll in Just Beyond season 1, episode 1, “Leave Them Kids Alone,” and Hadiya Pendleton in The First Lady season 1, episode 7, “Nadir.”
Han Soto as Mild-Mannered Man: Han Soto has a small part in The Boogeyman cast as a mild-mannered man. Soto voiced Gabe Chen in the videogame Life is Strange: True Colors, and has also had roles in Cobra Kai as Pham Minh Tao, Outer Banks as Mr. Diehl, and Black Box as Dr. Reed. Most recently he played a physiotherapist in Causeway.
Adams Bellouis in an Undisclosed Role: Adams Bellouis has been cast in an undisclosed role for the Stephen King short-story adaptation, The Boogeyman. The Stephen King adaptation is the first credit to her name, though she will soon appear in Rustin and Megalopolis.
Sources:
- Variety
