4,317 / 5,000 Merritt Wever, Bill Camp and More Cast Join The Gilded Age Season Three

The Gilded Age is expanding its cast with the addition of eight new actors. Merritt Wever and Bill Camp join Leslie Uggams and Lisagay Hamilton as they join the HBO drama, which is currently in production for its third season.

Wever (photo) plays Monica O' Brien, the estranged sister of Bertha (Carrie Coon). Camp plays J.P. Morgan, who clashes with George Russell (Morgan Spector) over the future of the railroad industry.

Uggams takes on the role of Mrs. Ernestine Brown, a friend of Elizabeth Kirkland and a member of Newport’s elite black community. Hamilton plays Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the famous black feminist who inspires Peggy (Denée Benton) to take up her cause despite the dissenting opinions of those around her.

Other new cast members include Andrea Martin (pictured below) as Madame Dashkova, a psychic who claims to be able to communicate with the dead; Paul Alexander Nolan as Alfred Merrick, a dashing, wealthy New York businessman; Hattie Morahan as Lady Sarah Vere, sister of the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb); and Jessica Frances Dukes as Athena Trumbo, Dorothy’s (Audra McDonald) beloved first cousin and part of Newport’s elite enclave of black residents.



The synopsis for season three goes as follows: 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. But even those at the helm of this new era may find that change comes at a cost

Camp recently starred in Apple TV+’s Presumed Innocent and Netflix’s A Man in Full . He’ll also soon be seen in Netflix’s Zero Day with Robert De Niro.

Weaver has starred in the Hulu miniseries Tiny Beautiful Things and will appear in the second season of Apple TV’s Severance and BBC/Netflix’s British drama Lockerbie .

Uggams currently stars as Blind Al in Deadpool & Wolverine, the third installment in the Deadpool film franchise. On the television front, she spent the past year in Prime Video’s Fallout .

Hamilton was in the fourth season of the National Geographic anthology series Genius: MLK/X about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She has had recurring roles in FX's miniseries Class of '09 on Hulu and HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, among others.