Starz has announced additional cast for Outlander: Blood of My Blood, the prequel series to the hit series Outlander.
Joining the previously-announced cast of Outlander: Blood of My Blood are Brian McCardie (Time, Rob Roy) as Isaac Grant, the leader of Clan Grant; Jhon Lumsden (Karen Pirie, The Famous Five) as Malcolm, Isaac’s son and a potential suitor for Ellen MacKenzie; Sara Vickers (Watchmen, Endeavour) as Davina Porter, a housekeeper in the Lovat household and mother to Brian Fraser; and Peter Mullan (Ozark, Payback) as Red Jacob MacKenzie, Laird of Clan MacKenzie and father to Ellen, Dougal, Colum, Janet and Jocasta.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood will explore the lives and relationship of Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), and Claire’s parents, Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine). The series will center on these two parallel love stories set in two different time periods — with Jamie’s parents in the early 18th century Scottish Highlands and Claire’s parents in WWI England. Production on the ten-episode season is underway in Scotland.
Outlander, the popular time-traveling drama based on Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling “Outlander” novels, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this summer and will return with the back eight episodes of Season 7 this November. Production recently began in Scotland on the ten-episode eighth and final season of the series.
Matthew B Roberts will serve as showrunner and executive producer on both series. Also executive producing are Ronald D. Moore and Maril Davis, who developed Outlander for television under their production banner Tall Ship Productions. Story Mining & Supply Company will also executive produce, and Diana Gabaldon will serve as a consulting producer.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood is produced by Sony Pictures Television. The series will be available across all Starz platforms in the US and Canada.
Stay tuned for updates.
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“Outlander” novels by Diana Gabaldon
