Elizabeth McGovern Joins Nicholas Denton in ‘Anne Rice’s The Talamasca’ for AMC

Anne Rice’s The Talamasca drama for AMC Networks will see Elizabeth McGovern from Downton Abbey accepting the lead opposite Nicholas Denton.

McGovern will portray Helen in the third series of AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe set to premiere on AMC and AMC+ in 2025. Following Interview With The Vampire and Mayfair Witches, The Talamasca (working title) is set as drama that revolves around mysterious organization called The Talamasca from many of Anne Rice’s novels.

The six-part series, which previously starred Nicholas Denton as leading man Guy Anatole, will centre on the fearsome five – and the other witches, vampires and monsters roaming the world that it is their business to hunt down and neutralise. William Fichtner was earlier reported to be in the ensemble cast.

McGovern will portray Helen, a veteran of Talamasca and the head of the New York branch of the organization. She has always harboured a feeling that the Motherhouse in London has been overtaken by wicked persons and a mysterious death compel her to take Guy Anatole as her companion.

Anne Rice’s The Talamasca is to be filmed in the U.K., which is executive produced by John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty, the latter of whom will also co-showrun the series, along with Mark Johnson, who also oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe. Hancock will also direct.

The new casting announcements for The Talamasca come at the heels of the much-acclaimed second season of Interview With the Vampire; the show was quickly given a third season even before it wrapped up the second. Interview was the first in the family of series that was produced and broadcasted by the AMC. The Mayfair Witches releases the sequel to its season 1 in early 2025.

McGovern’s management company is UTA, Tavistock Wood Management, and Anonymous Content.