Tenika Davis (Cabinet of Curiosities) has joined the cast of Starz’s new addition to the Spartacus universe, Spartacus: House of Ashur. The network also announced seven additional actors have boarded the action epic currently in production in New Zealand.
House of the Dragon‘s Graham McTavish, Jamaica Vaughan (Home and Away), Ivana Baquero (The Shannara Chronicles), Jordi Webber (Choose Love), Claudia Black (Farscape), India Shaw-Smith (The Pines Still Whisper), and Leigh Gill (Joker) will star in the action drama. They join previously announced star Nick Tarabay, reprising his role as Ashur.
“Spartacus: House of Ashur will be a history-bending, erotic, thrilling, roller-coaster experience that builds on everything that made the original series a colossal hit,” reads Starz’s synopsis. “The series poses the question: what if Ashur, played by fan favorite Nick Tarabay, hadn’t died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of Spartacus: Vengeance? And what if he had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and putting an end to the slave rebellion?”
Spartacus: House of Ashur New Characters:
- Graham McTavish plays “Korris,” a former gladiator who won his freedom in the arena and is now Ashur’s Doctore, training the gladiators in Ashur’s Ludus.
- Tenika Davis plays “Achillia,” a fierce warrior driven to surpass her male counterparts and earn her freedom.
- Jamaica Vaughan plays “Hilara,” a young, elevated house slave, deeply in love with Ashur.
- Ivana Baquero plays “Messia,” a house slave in love with Hilara.
- Jordi Webber plays “Tarchon,” a brash and headstrong gladiator.
- Claudia Black plays “Cossutia,” a politician determined to keep Ashur in his place and is constantly plotting his downfall.
- India Shaw-Smith plays “Viridia,” Cossutia’s daughter.
- Leigh Gill plays “Satyrus,” the leader of the Brothers Ferox, gladiators from a rival Ludus.
Steven S. DeKnight, creator of Spartacus, serves as showrunner and executive produces. Answering a few fan questions on Twitter, DeKnight revealed that he “wrote the role specifically for Claudia, and the one for Graham McTavish as well. I still can’t believe we got them both.”
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