The Gilded Age Season 3 is currently in production in New York. Fans got their first glimpse of Season 3 footage in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip in an HBO teaser dropped on August 4, showing Bertha (Carrie Coon) and Marian (Louisa Jacobson) and more in the new episodes. And the series has slowly been announcing more new cast members as production presses on.
Recent casting updates reveal that the women’s suffrage movement and Bertha’s family history will both be topics this season, and more historical figures are going to be depicted. One character description also hints that there will be scenes set in England for the very first time. Could that be because Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) marries the English Duke of Buckingham after all?
The Good Wife‘s Dylan Baker, Broadway’s Kate Baldwin, Michael Cumpsty of Severance, John Ellison Conlee from Boardwalk Empire, Bobby Steggert from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and newcomer Hannah Shealy were announced as Season 3’s newest cast members on Monday, November 4 by Deadline. See their character descriptions below, along with a full breakdown of what’s to come in Season 3.
What will The Gilded Age Season 3 be about?
Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell in The Gilded Age Season 3 (HBO)
The Gilded Age Season 2 saw Bertha Russell fighting her opera war against Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy), who wouldn’t allow new-money New York to have boxes at the Academy of Music. Bertha focused her efforts on making the new Metropolitan Opera the place to be, and she succeeded. Victory came at a price; to secure the Duke of Buckingham’s (Ben Lamb) attendance, and thus snub Mrs. Astor, Bertha seemed to have promised daughter Gladys’ (Taissa Farmiga) hand in marriage. Husband George (Morgan Spector) will not be pleased.
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Season 2 also marked a massive shift in the Van Rhijn household after Oscar (Blake Ritson) lost nearly all of mother Agnes’ (Christine Baranski) family fortune in a scheme carried out by Maud Beaton (Nicole Brydon Bloom). Luckily for them, the house didn’t need to be sold and the staff didn’t need to be fired thanks to Ada’s (Cynthia Nixon) marriage to Reverend Luke Forte (Robert Sean Leonard), whose sudden illness and death left Ada with a fortune of an inheritance.
Ada’s the woman of the house now, which means Marian has a much stronger ally in her corner now that she and Larry Russell (Harry Richardson) confessed their feelings for each other with a kiss. Aunt Agnes wouldn’t approve of a new money marriage, but Aunt Ada likely would. Everyone in The Gilded Age Season 3 will be adjusting to a new crowd of people running New York society.
“The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic and social change when huge fortunes were made and lost overnight. With the old guard officially deposed, New York society finds itself turned upside down, and all must get their house in order,” the Season 3 logline states. “But even those at the helm of this new era may find that change comes at a cost.”
Who is in The Gilded Age Season 3 cast?
Harry Richardson and Louisa Jacobson in The Gilded Age Season 3 (HBO)
The aforementioned actors will all be returning in Season 3, in addition to Denée Benton, Ben Ahlers, Simon Jones, Debra Monk, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, and Ashlie Atkinson, who have all been posting from set during Season 3 filming.
The Season 2 cast also included Audra McDonald, John Douglas Thompson, Michael Cerveris, Kelley Curran, Jack Gilpin, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Taylor Richardson, Douglas Sills, Erin Wilhelmi, Nathan Lane, Laura Benanti, Christopher Denham, David Furr, Ward Horton, and Matilda Lawler.
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A full Season 3 cast list has not yet been confirmed, but it’s safe to assume these actors — who have all been involved since Season 1 with the exception of Furr, Lawler, and Denham — will return in Season 3 as their characters have not been written out. Furr and Lawler, who played Dashiell Montgomery and his daughter, Frances, may not be back considering Dashiell’s broken engagement to Marian.
A whopping 12 new cast members were announced already this year, the most recent casting update coming on August 12. Andrea Martin, Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, LisaGay Hamilton, Paul Alexander Nolan, Hattie Morahan, and Jessica Frances Dukes will all appear in Season 3, in addition to the previously announced Phylicia Rashad, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Victoria Clark, and Jordan Donica.
Rashad plays Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkland. Mitchell plays Frederick Kirkland, the patriarch of the Kirkland family. Donica plays Dr. William Kirkland, their son who was inspired to help others by becoming a doctor after visiting Arthur Scott’s (Thompson) pharmacy as a boy. Clark plays Joan Carlton, a kind, genial woman from the old money side of New York high society.
Camp, most recently seen in Presumed Innocent, will play JP Morgan, the world-famous investment banker who finds himself at odds with George Russell (Spector) over the future of the railroad industry. Martin, who can be seen in the final season of Evil, plays Madame Dashkova, a medium who claims to be able to commune with the dead. Here are the character descriptions for some of the other new cast members.
Merritt Wever as Monica O’Brien: Bertha’s estranged sister who appears at a crucial time for the family.
Leslie Uggams as Mrs. Ernestine Brown: Elizabeth Kirkland’s friend and a member of the Black elite community in Newport.
LisaGay Hamilton as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: the famed Black suffragist who inspires Peggy (Benton) to become involved in her cause, in spite of the dissenting opinions of those around her.
Paul Alexander Nolan as Alfred Merrick: a dashing, wealthy New York businessman, who has all the hallmarks of the old money set – elegance, refinement and sophistication. The Russells invite him to dine at their home in the hopes of charming him into a business deal.
Hattie Morahan as Lady Sarah Vere: sister to the Duke of Buckingham (Lamb), Lady Sarah makes it clear that the Russells are not to her taste.
Jessica Frances Dukes as Athena Trumbo: Dorothy’s (McDonald) beloved first cousin and a part of an elite enclave of Black residents of Newport, Rhode Island, who is pleased to host Peggy and is supportive of her writing career.
Dylan Baker as Dr. Logan: a family doctor who treats a number of high society families.
Kate Baldwin as Nancy Adams Bell: the older sister of John Adams (Claybourne Elder).
Michael Cumpsty as Lord Mildmay: a British nobleman who comes to dine at Sidmouth Castle.
John Ellison Conlee as Weston: the successful, educated, and polished businessman who accompanies Lord Mildmay.
Bobby Steggert as the famed artist John Singer Sargent: who has just begun his career painting the great ladies of society.
Hannah Shealy as Charlotte Astor: the married daughter of Mrs. Astor (Murphy), recently returned from an eventful trip abroad.
Sidmouth Castle is a castle in England, which implies that there will be a trip across the pond in Season 3. With Wever playing Bertha’s sister, we now know that Bertha’s backstory will be addressed in some way in the third season. She and George transformed their lives from impoverished upbringings to massive wealth, and Coon and Spector have long wanted to explore how the couple got together and pulled off their wealth accumulation.
Baldwin’s casting marks another Broadway reunion. Baldwin and Murphy costarred in the 2017 revival of Hello, Dolly! with Bette Midler and the late Gavin Creel. Baldwin, like many others in The Gilded Age cast, is a two-time Tony Award nominee. McDonald and Mitchell were both in the original Broadway cast of Ragtime and will likely be seen onscreen together in Season 3.
Is there a trailer for The Gilded Age Season 3?
There is no trailer yet.
When does The Gilded Age Season 3 premiere?
The Gilded Age Season 3 will premiere in 2025, but an exact release date has not yet been announced.
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