Overview
Preacher is an American supernatural adventure television series developed by Sam Catlin, Evan Goldberg, and Seth Rogen for AMC starring Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun and Ruth Negga. The series is based on the comic book series Preacher created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The series was officially picked up on September 9, 2015, with a ten-episode order which premiered on May 22, 2016. The series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on August 4, 2019 and concluded on September 29, 2019.
Premise
Jesse Custer is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking preacher who, enduring a crisis of faith, becomes infused with an extraordinary power. He embarks on a quest to better understand his new gift and literally find God, alongside his trigger-happy ex-girlfriend, Tulip, and new vampire friend, Cassidy.
Cast and characters
Main
Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, a preacher from Annville, Texas with a criminal past and a newly discovered superpower to command others to do as he says. Dominic Ruggieri portrays 10-year-old Jesse.
Joseph Gilgun as Proinsias Cassidy, a vice-loving vampire from Ireland who joins Jesse and Tulip on their search for God.
Ruth Negga as Tulip O'Hare, Jesse's volatile, hell-raising girlfriend. Ashley Aufderheide portrays 10-year old Tulip.
Lucy Griffiths as Emily Woodrow, a single mother, waitress, church organist, bookkeeper, and Jesse's loyal right hand. (season 1)
W. Earl Brown as Sheriff Hugo Root, Annville's local lawman. (main season 1; guest season 2)
Derek Wilson as Donnie Schenck, Odin Quincannon's right-hand man and Jesse's rival since childhood. (season 1)
Ian Colletti as Eugene "Arseface" Root, Jesse's most faithful parishioner, and Sheriff Root's son, whose face is horribly disfigured due to a botched suicide attempt.
Tom Brooke as Fiore, one of two Adelphi angels tasked with watching the half-demon, half-angelic creature named Genesis. (main season 1; guest seasons 2 and 4)
Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, one of two Adelphi angels tasked with watching the half-demon, half-angelic creature named Genesis. (season 1)
Graham McTavish as William Munny, the Saint of Killers, a supernatural, unstoppable killing machine summoned from Hell to destroy Jesse.
Pip Torrens as Herr Klaus Helmut Starr, member of the Grail, a powerful, super-secret organization. Starr was briefly introduced in the season 1 episode "The Possibilities", although played by a different actor.
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