Tim Burton's Netflix Series Adds 10 Actors To Ensemble Cast

Wednesday, Tim Burton's upcoming series reimagining The Addams Family, has just added 10 more actors to its ensemble cast, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new actors come after the already impressive recent announcement that Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman will be starring, respectively, as Morticia and Gomez Addams.

Via THR:

· Thora Birch (The Walking Dead) will play Tamara Novak. "Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only ‘Normie’ on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical."

· Riki Lindhome (Knives Out) will play Dr. Valerie Kinbott. "A local therapist in the sleepy town of Jericho who takes a particular interest in her newest patient Wednesday Addams."

· Jamie McShane (Mank) will play Sheriff Donovan Galpin. "Born and bred in Jericho, this Sheriff has always had an issue with Nevermore Academy and a vendetta against former student Gomez Addams."

· Hunter Doohan (Your Honor) will play Tyler Galpin. "A townie who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Wednesday Addams. Tyler has a troubled relationship with his father, the local sheriff."

· Georgie Farmer (Treadstone) will play Ajax Petropolus. "A student at Nevermore Academy who also happens to be a Gorgon. Awkward and shy, Ajax is anxious about looking anyone in the eye."

· Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!) will play Eugene Otinger. "One of Nevermore Academy’s quirkiest students and president of the school’s bee-keeping club."

· Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement) will play Enid Sinclair. "She is Wednesday’s sunny and colorful Californian roommate at Nevermore Academy. Enid hails from a pack of San Francisco Werewolves."

· Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s) will play Yoko Tanaka. "A vampire with Harajuku-inspired Goth flair and one of the cool kids at Nevermore Academy."

· Joy Sunday (Dear White People) will play Bianca Barclay. "One of Nevermore Academy’s most popular students, Bianca descends from a long line of Sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade."

· Percy Hynes White (The Gifted) will play Xavier Thorpe. "A charismatic and supernaturally artistic Nevermore Academy student, who comes from wealth thanks to his celebrity psychic father."

Burton will serve as director and executive producer on the eight-episode series. Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville) will serve as showrunners and executive producers alongside Burton and Andrew Mittman for 1.21, Kevin Miserocchi, Kayla Alpert, Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania, and Gail Berman.

According to the official synopsis for Wednesday, "The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday's attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago--all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore."