List of ''American Horror Story: Roanoke'' characters

American Horror Story: Roanoke is the sixth season of the FX horror anthology series American Horror Story. The story takes place in 2015 and focuses on the testimonies of married couple Matt and Shelby Miller, and Matt's sister Lee Harris, as they recount a series of paranormal experiences they have on their property on a documentary titled, My Roanoke Nightmare, produced by Sidney Aaron James. Actors reenact a dramatized version of the events. Audrey Tindall, Dominic Banks and Monet Tumusiime portray Shelby, Matt and Lee, respectively, as well as Agnes Mary Winstead, Rory Monahan, William van Henderson and Dylan portray Thomasin White, Edward Philippe Mott, Elias Cunningham and Ambrose White, respectively. In the later half of the season, set in 2016, the actors, as well as the real people, join the production of Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell a year later as a part of a reality TV series for three days in the house. During these days all the people die in mysterious circumstances, except one. The epilogue shows the consequences of the events in the near future.

Veteran cast members include Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Denis O'Hare, Evan Peters, Wes Bentley, Cheyenne Jackson, and Angela Bassett, with Cuba Gooding Jr. and André Holland making their debut. Veteran cast members with recurring appearances include Adina Porter, Lady Gaga, Leslie Jordan, Frances Conroy, Finn Wittrock, Taissa Farmiga and Robin Weigert. This is the third season that is not strictly anthological, with Sarah Paulson reprising her previous role as Lana Winters from Asylum and Evan Peters portraying in My Roanoke Nightmare the role of Edward Mott, the ancestor of Dandy and Gloria Mott from Freak Show. This is the second season not to feature mainstay actress Jessica Lange and the first season since American Horror Story: Coven to not feature either Mare Winningham, Gabourey Sidibe or John Carroll Lynch since American Horror Story: Freak Show.

Cast members

Main cast

Special guest cast

Recurring cast

Guest cast

Characters

Main characters

Agnes Mary Winstead

Agnes Mary Winstead (portrayed by Kathy Bates) is the actress who portrayed Thomasin White, otherwise known as The Butcher, in My Roanoke Nightmare. Following the production of the show, she became infatuated with her character and convinced herself that she was the Butcher, leading to a psychotic break down, where she assaulted Los Angeles tourists with a cleaver while claiming that the area they were all walking on was hers. After being released for a psychiatric ward after regaining sanity, she is served a restraining order from Sidney prior to the production of the sequel of My Roanoke Nightmare due to Sidney suspecting she underwent another breakdown and was the culprit of vandalism on the set of the sequel, Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell. She violates the restraining order and returns to the house during the production of Return to Roanoke during a mental relapse and assaults Shelby with a cleaver, as well as killing Sidney and the rest of the production team. While Monet, Lee, and Audrey are out in the wood, Lee shoots her after she attempts to kill Audrey, but she survives and is able to seal her wounds in the bunker where Elias had been living. As she approaches the house to further her reign of terror upon the cast, the spirit of the real Butcher confronts her. Agnes is broken from her trance immediately and begs for her life as she proclaims her admiration for her before she is killed by the Butcher.

Audrey Tindall

Audrey Tindall (portrayed by Sarah Paulson) is the British actress who played Shelby Miller in My Roanoke Nightmare. She begins a relationship with fellow actor Rory Monahan during production, and later gets engaged to, and marries, Rory. She returns alongside her husband for the production of Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell, only for Rory to be killed inside the home then hung in a symbolic display outside the house to be found by Audrey. When Shelby is assaulted by Agnes; Audrey, Monet, and Lee go out in the woods to search for help. While searching, she finds the production team killed and eviscerated, followed shortly by Agnes emerging from the woods and is almost killed by her. Lee fends her off and they flee deeper into the woods, fleeing both Agnes and the tormenting paranormal entities. She, with Lee and Monet, are kidnapped by the Polks, who are acting in retribution for their pejorative portrayal in My Roanoke Nightmare and the loss of their feral sons. Monet abandons Audrey and escapes the Polk compound, while Ishmael and Lot Polk pursue her, leaving Audrey left to be tortured by the real Mama Polk. A freed Lee knocks her unconscious and frees Audrey, who bludgeons Mama Polk. Shelby and Lee escape the compound and return to the house. They discover Shelby's dead body and believe that Dominic killed her rather than accept that she committed suicide. Lee leaves him in the hallway to die. Knowing there is evidence to convict Lee for murder, she persuades Aubrey to return to the Polk compound to retrieve the tape. A reluctant Audrey agrees with Lee to return to the Polk compound to erase the recordings of them killing several members of the Polk family in fear of going to jail. Before attempting to escape from Roanoke, Lee, Dylan and herself begin to search the woods for Monet but were unsuccessful. As suggested by Lee, Audrey searched the Polk compound, eventually finding Monet to be hidden, bound and gagged in a back room. She releases Monet, killing Ishmael Polk upon their escape from the compound, and return to the house to wait out the remaining hours of the Blood Moon. She and Monet watched the tapes that Lee insisted on acquiring, only to find Lee's confession to the murder of Mason. While still in the house, Lee returns to the house, under the influence of Scáthach, and proceeds to chase Audrey from the house. She, injured from inflicted assaults, takes refuge in the bunker, but while descending down the ladder, Lee strikes her with a cleaver. Despite this, she survives the final Blood Moon night of the year and is able to remove herself from the bunker and get assistance by the police officers the next morning to the ambulance. Upon seeing Lee, out of rage for killing Monet and trying to kill her, she pulls one of the officer's gun on her, prompting the officers to shoot her, killing her.

Dominic Banks

Dominic Banks (portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is the actor who played Matt Miller in My Roanoke Nightmare. Prior to the production of Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell, he had an extramarital affair with Shelby. Upon returning to the house for the production of Return to Roanoke, he immediately gets into a physical confrontation with Matt, which he engages in the fight due to his agreement with Sidney for a spinoff. Dominic remains in the house with Matt to care for an injured Shelby. He witnesses Shelby murder Matt for cheating on her again to which he consoles her and explains that there is no way to divert the blame from her because everything has been recorded. A calmer Shelby and Matt devise a plan to escape the house through the passageway in the basement. Upon executing their plan, they are ambushed by the spirits of the Chen family and the retreat to the basement. In another attempt to escape, they are ambushed by the spirits of the Roanoke colonists and the Piggy Man, where they retreat back into the house. Dominic begins to devise another escape plan before Shelby commits suicide. By the time Lee and Audrey return the house, they assumed Dominic killed Shelby, and Lee leaves him to be killed by the Piggy Man in the hallway.

Shelby Miller

Shelby Miller (portrayed by Lily Rabe) is a yoga teacher, the former housewife of Matt Miller and previous occupant of the house. After getting married to Matt, they moved to Los Angeles, which Shelby claimed was the "yoga capital of the world". Upon first moving there, Shelby miscarriages their child due to stress when Matt was put into a coma after being assaulted in a gang initiation ceremony. Upon the trauma they endured in the city, Shelby and Matt relocate to North Carolina, where Matt grew up. They purchase a house on Roanoke Island in a bidding auction against the redneck Polk's. While home alone, bathing in her hot tub outside, a torch-wielding clan attempts to drown her. She calls the police, but they offer no help, as they see no evidence to Shelby's claims. Days later, her house is broken into and totems are hung around her house. While her and Lee seek refuge in the basement, they find a video of a man- who is later revealed by Dr. Elias Cunningham- who is an enthusiast of the paranormal activity in the house and was being attacked by the Piggy Man. She flees the house, but crashes into a mysterious woman, who is able to pick herself up and walk into the woods. Shelby insists on bringing her to the hospital and pursues her in the woods, but gets lost. After walking around, she encounters a ritualistic sacrificial ceremony, where the head of a pig is put over a man's head and is burned alive. Traumatized, she runs and wakes up in the hospital, where she scapegoats the Polks as having orchestrated an elaborate setup to scare them away from the house. Her theory is debunked upon seeing visions of a girl dressed in sixteenth century attire, who guides her to the bunker where Elias had been living, where she finds his catalog of murders conducted by two nurses who previously owned the house. She later encounters Elias when he fends off the Piggy Man. He introduces her more documents of people who have gone missing in the house within the same five days every year. Meanwhile, her relationship with Matt is strained when she catches him cheating on her with a feral woman. While he claims no memory of this, Shelby also takes issue with a deal he had made with The Butcher, where he promised to burn the house down in return for the safety and return of Flora, of whom she kidnapped. Infuriated, she reports Lee to the police for the suspected murder of her husband, both due to her hatred of Lee and out of spite for her husband. She, along with Flora, and Matt flee the house with the help of Edward Philipe Mott, a previous resident in the house, upon an attack by the spirits of the Roanoke colonists, but are captured by the Polks, who have promised to bring the Butcher a sacrifice so they may remain on their land, as well as revenge for the loss of their two feral children, who were turned over to child services. Before being sacrificed by the Butcher, her son sacrifices her as penance for the sins of the colonists. Lee returns from interrogation and reduces them, and they return to Los Angeles, but Shelby continues to be haunted by memories of the Butcher. After the production of My Roanoke Nightmare, she has an extramarital affair with Dominic Banks, the actor who portrayed Matt in the documentary. In the time following, Shelby and Matt divorce. Shelby only agrees to take part in the sequel, Return to Roanoke, so that she will be able to make amends with Matt. While initially rejected by Matt, he saves her from being killed by Agnes during one of her relapses. She bludgeons Matt when she learns that he only returned so he could reunite with Scáthach, the feral woman whom he cheated on Shelby with while he was living there. She attempts to convince Dominic to conspire with her to claim it wasn't her, but is rebuffed when Dominic informs her that it was all recorded. Being unable to escape the house after her escape plan is thwarted by the Roanoke colonists and the Chen family, she commits suicide out of guilt for killing Matt.

Matt Miller

Matt Miller (portrayed by André Holland) is the former husband of Shelby Miller, with whom her had previously lived in the house with. He married Shelby and moved with her to San Francisco so Shelby could pursue her interest in yoga, but is assaulted and put into a coma during a gang initiation ceremony. Unable to be taken out of the coma, he awakes upon contact with Shelby, but Shelby miscarriages due to stress. Upon the trauma endured in the city, he and Shelby move to North Carolina, where he had been raised with his sister Lee, and buys a house on Roanoke Island, outbidding the redneck Polks. After being out of town on business, Shelby claims to have almost been killed by a torch-wielding clan while bathing in their hot tub. Though wanting to, Matt is unable to bring himself to believe Shelby's story. Later that night, a trashcan is thrown at him while he is outside. Upon these incidents, Matt installs home security cameras throughout the house and intercepts footage of a torch-wielding clan entering the house. When he returns, he is shown the video of Elias Cunningham encountering the Piggy Man. He accused the Polk family of racism, and taunting them in order to scare them from the house, as well as for being an interracial couple. He witnesses a pair of nurses kill a patient in a hospital bed and both laughing about it, but believes to be a hallucination upon their disappearance moments later. He is guided to an underground bunker by a little girl dressed in outdated attire, where he and Shelby find a video of Elias Cunningham documenting the story of two nurses who killed their patients in the house, and wrote the word "MURDE" on the wall. Matt begins to believe there are paranormal entities in the house upon remembering the nurses saying "M is for Margaret". He soon finds that the word "MURDE" has been written in blood on the wall under the wallpaper. He later encounters Elias in his house, who saves him from being attacked by the Piggy Man, and convinces Matt that paranormal entities do, in fact, reside in the house, providing documentation of various disappearances in the house during the same five days each year. Unable to leave the house, both due to financial shortcomings as well as the search for Flora, he remains in the house. While searching for Flora, he is seduced by Scáthach, a feral witch, and is caught cheating on Shelby, but he has no recollection of any such encounter. Further straining their relationship, he makes a deal with the Butcher to burn down the house and leave contingent upon the safe return of Flora. He is seduced by Scáthach again, and she informs him of her journey to Roanoke Island. Upon calls from help from Shelby, Matt is broken from his trance and returns to Shelby, where her and Flora are about to suffer an impending attack from the spirits of the Roanoke colonists. However, previous owner of the house, Edward Philipe Mott rescues them and guides them through a secret passageway under the house out into the woods, but they are kidnapped by the Polks. They deliver Flora, Shelby, and Matt to the Butcher as a part of an agreement, where their peaceful occupation of the land is dependent on this delivery. The Polks also do so in revenge, as Matt, Shelby, and Lee turned their feral children over to child services. Before they can be killed, the Butcher's son stops the ceremony and kills his mother as penance for the sins of the colonies. Lee arrives back at the house after interrogation, and rescues them as they all return to Los Angeles. He and Shelby divorce after Shelby has an extramarital affair with Dominic Banks, the actor who portrayed him in My Roanoke Nightmare. He returns for Return to Roanoke, initially for unknown reasons, and immediately gets into a confrontation with Shelby, and then a physical fight with Dominic. He informs a disbelieving Rory, Monet, and Audrey that their stories are an accurate description of the events they suffered in the house, but they laugh them off. The next day, he rescues Shelby from being killed by Agnes, who has gone through a mental relapse and believes herself to be the Butcher. He rebuffs attempts of reconciliation with Shelby, and is revealed that he returned to reunite with Scáthach. Upon hearing this, Shelby bludgeons him to death.

William van Henderson

William van Henderson (portrayed by Denis O'Hare) is the actor who portrayed Dr. Elias Cunningham, the true-crime documentary maker, aspiring author, and enthusiast in the killings that took place in the house Shelby and Matt moved into, investigating the Jane sisters before learning the bloodied history revolving around the property. After living in the house for a few months, he seeks refuge in a nearby bunker due to his inability to sleep in the house and the paranormal events that have taken place and oversaw the property until he was unable to pay the taxes and the property was reposted, and eventually purchased by the Millers. He saves Matt and Shelby from being attacked by the Piggy Man by shouting "Croatoan" at him, and explains to the two of them the story of Roanoke colony, and extrapolates on the significance of the work "Croatoan", a word that possessed sinister meaning, but can be used to repel the spirits of Roanoke colony. He presents them with his documentations of the several disappearances that occurred in the house over the years, all taking place within the span of the same five days in October. He joins Matt and Shelby in an effort to help rescue Flora from the Roanoke colonists, but while negotiating with the Butcher for her release, he is shot and thought to have been killed by an arrow from one of the spirits of the Roanoke colony. He is later found to be alive in the Polk compound, where they had amputated his leg and consumed him. He is later bludgeoned by the Polks. William was offered to return for Return to Roanoke, but declined. William is last seen being interviewed on a news program over the hostage situation at the house, leaving him the only major cast member of My Roanoke Nightmare to survive.

Dylan

Dylan (portrayed by Wes Bentley) is an actor who portrayed Ambrose White in My Roanoke Nightmare, who was previously a member of the US military, serving two tours in Afghanistan. Dylan returned for Return to Roanoke, where he dressed up the Piggy Man as a part of pre-planned stunt orchestrated by Sidney to scare the participants, with strict instructions not to bring his cellphone. Upon arriving, he learns of the carnage that has ensued in the previous two days. He surveys the forest in a search for Monet, but upon finding nothing, he dispatches Lee and Audrey to search the Polk compound while he hotwires one of the Polk's trucks. Upon starting the ignition, he is found by Lot Polk, and his mortally wounded, only managing to survive when Lee fends him off. The Roanoke colonists eventually capture, kill, and eviscerate him in a ritualistic murder.

Rory Monahan

Rory Monahan (portrayed by Evan Peters) is the actor who portrayed Edward Phillipe Mott in My Roanoke Nightmare. During the production, he begins a relationship with Audrey Tindall, the actress who portrayed Shelby Miller. Prior to the production of Return to Roanoke, he and Audrey get engaged, and then later get married. He returns with his wife to Return to Roanoke, and, like his wife, does not believe the accounts of Shelby, Matt, and Lee. Just after production begins, he is killed by the spirits of the Jane sisters, and is hung outside the house in a symbolic display where he is impaled.

Sidney Aaron James

Sidney Aaron James (portrayed by Cheyenne Jackson) is the immoral lead producer of "My Roanoke Nightmare". He subjected Lee, Matt, and Shelby to an extensive background check, exposing the unflattering past of Lee, and causing extreme distress to Lee, Shelby, and Matt. He often continues to film the participants against their will, recording Lee and Shelby crying, and incorporating these recordings in the final version of the television. He cites the show's success surpassing those of other widely popular shows in his pitch for a sequel to My Roanoke Nightmare, which would feature the actors who portrayed Shelby, Matt, Lee, and Edward, as well as the real Shelby, Matt, and Lee, staying in the house for three days in a special called Return to Roanoke: 3 Days in Hell. His ambitions come to fruition and is granted his special. In pre-production, he rigs the house with several gag-scares, including turning the TV one and playing a haunting video and opening the cupboards and drawers remotely. He is infuriated at an act of vandalism where the set is littered with the corpses of pig fetuses. Accusing Agnes of the vandalism, he serves her a restraining order and bars her from returning to Return to Roanoke. He makes the set look authentic, locating all trailers several miles out from the house, and hiding the cameras to refrain from them being noticed. While watching the happenings in the house from his trailer, he and his camera team are killed by Agnes, and discovered later by Audrey, Lee, and Monet.

Monet Tumusiime

Monet Tumusiime (portrayed by Angela Bassett) is the actress who portrayed Lee Harris in My Roanoke Nightmare. Monet fully immersed herself in the character, which led her to become an alcoholic, similar to the actual Lee Harris. Monet joins Audrey and Lee in searching for help after Lee is assaulted by Agnes. She, Audrey, and Lee encounter the corpses of Sidney and other members of the production, shortly followed by Agnes emerging from the woods and attempting to kill Audrey. After Lee shoots Agnes, they flee the scene, as well as paranormal entities that begin pursuing them, but end up being kidnapped by the Polks. She and Audrey are tortured by Lot, Ishmael, and Mama Polk as retribution for their pejorative portrayal in My Roanoke Nightmare, as well as for the loss of their feral children, who had been turned over to child services by Shelby, Matt, and Lee. Monet scapegoats Shelby, Matt, and Lee, and claims no responsibility for the loss of their children. She is able to break free, and abandons Shelby in exchange for her escape, but Lot and Ishmael managed to catch her, and bound and gag her in a backroom in their compound. She is eventually rescued by Audrey the following day, and they flee back the house to wait out the remaining hours of the Blood Moon night. While there, skeptical of Lee's motive of acquiring the footage from the Polk compound, she plays it and watched it with Audrey, only to find Lee having confessed to them murder of Mason. Having already disliked Lee, blaming her for her alcoholism, an intoxicated Monet taunts Lee when she returns to the house. Under the influence of Scáthach, Lee throws Monet off the landing onto a pillar, which impaled and killed her.

Lee Harris

Lee Harris (née Miller) (portrayed by Adina Porter) is the sister of Matt Miller who was raised with him in North Carolina. She had a daughter at seventeen, but she was kidnapped when she was four. Formerly a police officers, she became addicted to prescription pain killers after being shot on the job when she was responding to a drug bust. She broke protocol when she blacked out, which led to a suspect committing suicide to evade being prosecuted. She was subsequently fired and spiraled into alcoholism, resulting in her neglecting her responsibility to her child, frequently forgetting to pick her daughter, Flora, up from school, and withdrawing from her husband, Mason. When Mason files for divorce, she is given visitation rights, and she moves in with Matt and Shelby. During the first night, an empty alcoholic bottle is rolled into her room. Enraged, Lee accuses of Shelby of tempting her out of spite, with Shelby vehemently denying it. Lee harbors intense disdain from Shelby and constantly fights with her. During one of their fights, with Lee accusing Shelby of being paranoia and involving Matt in her delusions. However, the same torch-wielding clan that Shelby alleged tried to kill her returns to the house. Lee and Shelby take refuge in the basement. When the intruders leave, they find strange totems hung around the house, and a strange video playing in the basement of a man being attacked by the Piggy Man. The next day, Flora is dropped off at the house, but when she tells stories of a girl threatening to kill her, Mason takes her home, vowing to get full custody of Flora, causing Lee to relapse into alcoholism. In response to Mason's threat, she kidnaps Flora, enraging Mason, who threatens to involve the police until Shelby is able to deescalate the situation to a point where Mason decides against involving child services or the authorities. While Mason is driving to the house, Flora goes missing in the woods. An enraged Mason accuses Lee of orchestrating a fake kidnapping so that she may flee the country with Flora with full custody. Upset, Mason leaves the house in the middle of the night, with Lee following behind him, and returning several hours later without Mason. The next day, the police find Mason hung in a symbolic display, killed and burned to the point of being unrecognizable. Upon viewing footage of Lee's venture out into the woods after Mason, and the returning after the approximate time of death, Shelby accuses Lee of murdering Mason, to which she vehemently denies. Continuing in her search for Flora, she seeks the help of Cricket Marlowe, a psychic, who informs her that Flora is in possession of a spirit of a Roanoke colonist, Priscilla. Lee admits that she was skeptical and only sought Marlowe's expertise out of desperation, but began to believe him when he mentioned Priscilla, a person who Flora was talking about, who she thought was an imaginary friend conjured up by Flora to deal with the stress of her parents' divorce. Ensuring that Flora is safe, Cricket offers to take Lee to her for $25,000, to which Lee denies. Cricket pursues the case alone, and conveys Lee's concern to the Butcher, the leader of the colony that Priscilla is a part of, who is open to negotiation. In desperation, Matt and Lee offer to burn down the house if Flora is returned safely to her. Angered at Matt's betrayal, Shelby calls the police and implicates Lee in the murder of Mason. She undergoes two days of interrogation, but is released due to insufficient evidence. She returns to see Flora, Matt, and Shelby escaping a human sacrifice ceremony, whom she rescues and they flee Roanoke Island. She returned for Return to Roanoke, with almost everybody believing that she murdered Mason. When Shelby is nearly killed by Agnes, Lee joins Audrey and Monet in a search for help, venturing out into the woods, taking a gun with her. Upon finding the dead bodies of Sidney and other members of the production team, Agnes attempts to kill Audrey. In defense, Lee shoots Agnes, and the three of them flee into the woods. While fleeing both Agnes and paranormal entities that were chasing them, Lee, along with Audrey and Monet, is kidnapped by the Polk's. At the Polk compound, Mama Polk sharpens a knife while recounting her family's origin history. Jether Polk used the knife to cut part of Lee's leg off, which he eats, as well as removes her ear. Lee bargains with Jether to release her, promising he will become famous, and promises him a spot on further installations of Roanoke productions. Jether confides more family history in her, such as the creation of the Piggy Man and familial traditions. Lee seduces Jether into untying her, killing him and then saving Audrey from Mama Polk, knocking her unconscious and letting Audrey bludgeon her. Upon returning to the house to find Matt and Shelby dead, Lee assumed Dominic killed the latter and leaves him to be killed by the Piggy Man. Lee than convinces Audrey to get the footage of them killing two of the Polks, using it as a cover to find and destroy the footage of her confession of murdering Mason. While looking for Monet, she directs their search toward the Polk compound so she can retrieve her confession tape. She successfully fends off Lot Polk just before he is able to kill Dylan, but flees herself from the colonists. Similar to Thomasin, she is about to be attacked by a wild boar, but is spared by Scáthach and fed the boar's heart in return for her loyalty to Scáthach. Lee assumes the role of the Butcher and kills Todd, Monet, and chases Audrey into the bunker, in order to evict them from her land. She similarly assists the colonists in sacrificing Milo and Sophie. She is found by police unconscious outside the house with no memory of the actions she has committed. Following the production of Return to Roanoke, she stands trial and becomes a polarizing figure in America. She is interviewed by Lana Winters on The Lana Winters Special following her trial, where she is accused of being in someway involved with the tragedies that occurred in Roanoke. Lee rebukes her by claiming she was innocent, and only killed the Polk's because she needed to, similar to the way Lana had to kill her son. She ultimately returns to Roanoke in search of Flora, who wants to become a ghost to stay with Priscilla. Lee convinces Flora to let her die in her place, becoming a mother to Pricilla. She asks Flora to visit them when it is not the Blood Moon.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/18/american-horror-story-roanoke-twist-coven
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