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Nosferatu was one of the most awaited newly made gothic horror films in 2024, which brought director Robert Eggers’ long-time passion project to life. As a reboot of the 1922 silent film, this gothic horror film that premiered on the 25th of December 2024, offered its audiences a gloomy and haunting alternative to the traditional Christmas flair.
The film follows the character of Count Orlok, who is a petrifying vampire who inflicts havoc on a small fictitious European town, spreading dread and disease while being fixated on a young woman.
Combined with Eggers’ distinctive vision, much of the exhilaration surrounding Nosferatu stemmed from its stunning star cast. Below is a comprehensive guide to the Nosferatu cast and the characters they bring to life.
Nosferatu Cast and Character Guide:
1] Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok:
About the Actor: Bill Skarsgård is best recognized for his unsettling portrayal of Pennywise the Clown in the movie It and It Chapter Two.
His filmography includes his roles in John Wick: Chapter 4, Eternals, and The Devil All the Time.
About the Character: Skarsgård portrays the character of Count Orlok, the film’s vital figure. Orlok is a cold-blooded vampire who resides in an isolated Romanian castle, scattering dread and disease. The character takes his inspiration from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which makes him one of the most recognizable horror figures of all time.
2] Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter:
About the Actor: Depp gained acknowledgment through films such as Tusk and Voyagers before she had her breakout role in the Weeknd’s HBO show titled The Idol. She has also appeared in The King and Silent Night.
About the Character: Ellen Hutter is the very source of Count Orlok’s infatuation. The film expands her correlation to Orlok, by connecting an inexplicable spiritual bridge between the two of them that goes back to her childhood.
3] Willem Dafoe as Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz
About the Actor: As an Academy-nominated actor, Willem Dafoe has starred in films like Platoon, Spider-Man, American Psycho, The Florida Project, and Poor Things.
About the Character: The Green Goblin in Spider-Man plays a character named Von Franz in Eggers’ gothic film. He is a scientist and an occult specialist who aids in the fight against Count Orlok. His character is extremely lightly based on the Bulwer figure from the 1922 original film. However, Eggers has suggestively developed his character by turning him into a vampire hunter.
4] Nicholas Hoult as Thomas Hutter
About the Actor: Nicholas Hoult gained early appreciation through his roles in About a Boy and Skins. His filmography later included films like Warm Bodies, X-Men: First Class, Tolkien, The Menu, and Mad Max: Fury Road.
About the Character: Thomas Hutter plays Ellen’s husband in Nosferatu. Hoult’s character initially sees Orlok as a would-be business partner before realizing the vampire’s authentic nature. His journey takes him from uncertainty to absolute horror as he battles to safeguard his wife.
5] Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Friedrich Harding
About the Actor: Taylor-Johnson made his name by playing Dave Lizewski in Kick-Ass. He also stars in Nowhere Boy, Avengers: Age of Ultron as Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff, Bullet Train, and Tenet.
About the Character: Friedrich Harding is a well-to-do ship merchant and a very close friend of Thomas Hutter. Dissimilar to the original film, where his character acted out a fairly minor role, Harding’s presence in Eggers’ gothic horror film is prolonged, giving him a complicated relationship with his wife as Orlok’s weight in the movie grows.
6] Ralph Ineson as Dr. Wilhelm Sievers
About the Actor: Ineson is famously recognized for his roles in The Witch, Game of Thrones, The Green Knight, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
About the Character: Dr. Sievers is the director of a hospital in the fictitious town of Wisburg. He is seen partnering up with Von Franz, while both of them aid each other in the fight against Cout Orlok.
7] Emma Corrin as Anna Harding
About the Actor: Corrin rose to fame by portraying Princess Diana in Netflix’s The Crown. She later appeared in Harry Styles’ film My Policeman and one of the MCU’s latest editions - Deadpool & Wolverine.
About the Character: Anna Harding is Friedrich’s wife who is a magnified character in this version of Nosferatu by Eggers. She plays an important role in the film’s psychological and emotive deepness, as Count Orlok’s obscurity stresses her relationship with her husband Friedrich.
8] Simon McBurney as Herr Knock
About the Actor: McBurney has previously appeared in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, and The Theory of Everything.
About the Character: Herr Knock is Thomas Hutter’s manager and a confidential servant of Count Orlok. His occult zeal leads him to arrange Hutter’s expedition to Orlok’s castle, setting the film’s proceedings into action.
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The 2024 version of Nosferatu by Eggers brings together a group of Hollywood’s sharpest talents, each of them bringing something to the table in this rebooted version of a classic gothic horror tale.
With Bill Skarsgård standing at the foremost of the Nosferatu cast as Count Orlok, along with Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, and Nicholas Hoult, amongst others, Robert Eggers’ remake has made itself an experience that is both haunting and visually stunning at the same time.
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