Recently, the Black Mirror series was renewed for its seventh season, much to the delight of fans. First released in December 2011, the series was purchased by Netflix in 2015 and has been a hit ever since.
Each episode portrays a different story with its own alternate reality and different actors, but they all revolve around the consequences of the rampant use of technology, satirizing a society that lives on screen.
Among all 27 episodes of production, many celebrities were part of the series, such as in the sixth season, which featured the participation of Salma Hayek, Aaron Paul and Michael Cera. Here we have selected 10 famous actors who were part of the cast of Black Mirror and who you don’t remember.
10 actors who were part of the Black Mirror cast
1. Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya was nominated for an Oscar for his role as Chris in the film Get Out! (2017), but he was recognized much earlier when he participated in the cast of Black Mirror, in 2011. Titled Fifteen Million Merit, the episode is the second of the first season.
In an alternate reality where medals are needed for just about everything, the character Bing, who inherited 15 million medals due to his brother’s death, decides to help a friend enter a talent program, but things don’t work out. as expected.
2. Domhall Gleeson
Before joining the cast of Black Mirror, Domhall Gleeson was already known for his participation in the role of Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010). He has also participated in other famous productions such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), in the role of General Hux and Question of Time (2013), in the role of Tim Lake.
In Black Mirror he participated in the second season, in the first episode, entitled Back Now, in the story the actor plays Ash, Martha’s boyfriend who suffers an accident and dies. He orders a service that imitates the voice and mannerisms of a deceased person based on the loved one’s interactions on the Internet.
3. Bryce Dallas Howard
Actress, director and model Bryce Dallas Howard became known in 2007, when she played Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, but among Bryce’s most famous productions, the one that stands out the most is her participation in the cast of Jurassic World (2015) as Claire Dearing.
In 2016, she played Lacie Pound in the first episode of the third season of Black Mirror titled Free Fall. In the episode, the world revolves around a social network whose popularity is essential for interpersonal interactions. Lacie has been invited to the wedding of a childhood friend, but her popularity on the social network drops drastically due to a series of misfortunes that the character goes through.
4. Alex Lawther
Actor Alex Lawther’s career took off after his participation in the film The Imitation Game (2014) where he played the younger version of Alan Turing. His participation in Black Mirror took place in 2016, in the third episode of the third season entitled Manda Quem Pode. Subsequently, the actor also played James, the main character in the series The End of the F***ing World (2017-2019).
In Manda Quem Pode, Alex’s character is Kenny, a boy whose computer has been invaded by hackers who threaten to divulge all his information to his family unless he follows a series of orders of a questionable nature, including, until to the extremes, such as carrying out criminal actions.
5. Jesse Plemon
Before Black Mirror, Jesse Plemons participated in a handful of famous productions such as Bigger Kid in Sabrina, Teenage Witch (2001), Owen Durbin in CSI: Criminal Investigation (2004), Jake Burton in Grey’s Anatomy (2006), and perhaps the Plemons’ most famous role, Todd Alquist in Breaking Bad (2012).
In 2017, Plemons was cast in the first episode of the fourth season of Black Mirror called USS Callister, playing Robert Daly. The plot tells of a video game programmer who creates a simulation inspired by Star Trek, using the DNA of his colleagues to create virtual versions of these people to interact with him in this game.
In the episode, Kirsten Dunst, the wife of the actor famous for her role as Mary Jane in Spider-Man (2002), appears briefly as an employee of Callister, the company where the character works.
6. Cristin Millioti
Also in the same USS Callister episode, we have Cristin Millioti, who before appearing in Black Mirror, starred in a number of Broadway shows, as well as films like The Wolf of Wall Street where she played Teresa Petrillo Belfort, but she was really known in the role by Tracy McConnell, the mother in the series How I Meet Your Mother (2013-2014).
In USS Callister, Millioti plays Nanette, responsible for leading the ship’s crew in a plan against Commander Daly. The episode also features actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter Michaela Coel, who wrote and starred in the Chewing Gum series.
7. Letitia Wright
Letitia Wright participated in episode six of the fourth season of Black Mirror entitled Black Museum, in 2017. In the episode she plays Nish, a character who stumbles upon a museum in the middle of a deserted street, and finds several artifacts present in other places . episodes of the series.
After her participation in Black Mirror, she joined the Marvel cast as Shuri in Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).
8. It will be Poulter
With his career taking off from a young age, Will Pouter rose to fame after playing the character of Eustáquio Mísero in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). From then on, he starred in popular productions such as Família do Bagulho (2013) where he played Kenny, Maze Runner: Correr ou Morrer (2014) and Maze Runner: A Cura Mortal (2018) where he played Gally and after Black Mirror , he continued to have success in popular films such as Midsommar where he played Mark and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 where he played Adam Warlock.
In Black Mirror, the actor participated in the interactive film Bandersnatch (2018) as Colin Ritman, a game developer. The story is set in England, where the character Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) dreams of adapting his favorite gamebook Bandersnatch into what he believes will be a revolutionary project.
9. Anthony Mackie[[[[
Before joining the cast of the first episode of the fifth season of Black Mirror, Anthony Mackie was already famous for the role of Sam Wilson/Falcon in the Marvel films Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). , Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). And after Black Mirror, he continued to participate in the MCU in the film Avengers: Endgame and is expected to remain in the cast of the franchise for the next films.
In the Black Mirror episode Striking Vipers (2019), Anthony plays Danny Parker, a young man who begins playing the game of the episode’s name with a college friend. Years later, that same friend he had lost contact with shows up at his house with the new version of the virtual reality game, and the games end up revealing something surprising.
10. Miley Cyrus
The actress, singer and songwriter Miley Cyrus is world famous for playing a girl with a secret life as a pop star in the series Hannah Montana (2006 – 2011). Cyrus has been in the spotlight from an early age, with much controversy surrounding her name. After the Disney series, she invested more in her career as a singer and songwriter, but she still participated in the cast of several productions.
So, when she participated in the third and final episode of the fifth season of Black Mirror, Cyrus was already an established artist. In the episode, titled Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, she plays Ashley Too / Ashley O, a celebrity who launches a doll that is an AI-created version of herself.
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