Welcome To Derry Cast & Character Guide

Apart from walking through the terrifying origins of Pennywise in Derry, IT: Welcome to Derry also features several incredible performances from both new and familiar cast members.

Serving as a prequel to the IT movies, IT: Welcome to Derry expands the Stephen King franchise’s lore by unfolding in the 1960s and revealing all the events that eventually led to the developments in the parent movie series. The show has opened to largely positive reviews and boasts an above-average Rotten Tomatoes score of 77%.

Like the movies, IT: Welcome to Derry is jam-packed with jump scares and terrifying sequences that creep under a viewer’s skin. However, apart from that, the Stephen King TV show also appeals to viewers with its well-written characters who are brilliantly portrayed by the actors who play them. Owing to this, viewers may be curious about who plays whom in the series.

Taylour Paige as Charlotte Hanlon

Date Of Birth: October 5, 1990

Actor: Born in Santa Monica, California, Taylour Paige first gained immense recognition for her role in VH1’s Hit The Floor. In the years that followed, she garnered more mainstream attention for her part in movies like Zola, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. In recent years, she has been a part of movies like The Toxic Avenger, Magazine Dreams, and Brothers.

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Character: Taylour Paige portrays Charlotte in It: Welcome to Derry, a school teacher who finds herself surrounded by the mysteries of Derry after she moves to the town to live with her husband, Air Force Major Leroy Hanlon.

Jovan Adepo as Leroy Hanlon

Date Of Birth: September 6, 1988

Actor: Born in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, Jovan Adepo attended Bowie State University in Maryland, where he received his B.A. in political science and philosophy. He made his acting debut in 2016 with period drama Fences before garnering more attention for his parts in movies like Babylon, Overlord, and His Three Daughters.

Before It: Welcome to Derry, he also starred in several TV shows, like The Leftovers, Sorry For Your Loss, and Jack Ryan. Some might even recognize him for his parts in When They See Us, Watchmen, and The Stand.

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Character: Adepo’s character, Leroy Hanlon, is an Air Force Major who is one of the first few people to notice Derry’s strange occurrences. The deeper he dives into these mysteries, the more he finds himself in the middle of terrifying and hard-to-explain events.

Clara Stack as Lilly

Date Of Birth: October 19, 2010

Actor: Clara Stack made her acting debut in 2019 with a small role in Madam Secretary. In the years that followed, she appeared in several mainstream shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Hawkeye, and Almost Family. It: Welcome To Derry serves as her biggest television opportunity to date.

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Character: Clara Stack’s Lilly is one of the leading younger cast members in It: Welcome to Derry. She ends up experiencing the horrors of Derry first hand in the show’s opening moments before she sets out to find the truth about what is happening to her and her friends.

Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann

Date Of Birth: December 7, 1977

Actor: Born in Ashville, North Carolina, Chris Chalk attended Ashville High School before going to University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Although he has played parts in several movies and shows, like 12 Years A Slave, Gotham, and Law & Order, he is best known for his performances in Homeland, The Newsroom, and Justified.

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Character: Chris Chalk’s character, Dick Hollorann, in It: Welcome to Derry, is portrayed as a community leader. When he, too, starts noticing the undercurrent of creepy events in the titular town, he realizes he must do something to safeguard Derry’s citizens before it is too late.

Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise

Date Of Birth: August 9, 1990

Actor: Born in Vällingby, Stockholm, Bill Skarsgård played roles in movies and shows, like Simple Simon, Hemlock Grove, and The Divergent Series: Allegiant, during the early years of his career. His first major breakthrough came with Andy Muschietti’s first It movie in 2017, where he played Pennywise for the first time on the big screen.

Since then, Skarsgård has garnered attention and acclaim for many big screen roles in movies like Boy Kills World, John Wick: Chapter 4, The Crow, Nosferatu, and Barbarian.

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Character: After playing the iconic monster, Pennywise, in the two IT movies, Bill Skarsgård reprises his role as the clown in HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry. Unlike the movies, though, Pennywise makes relatively fewer appearances in the series as it tries to maintain an air of mystery and intrigue around the character.

It: Welcome To Derry Supporting Cast & Characters

Mikkal Karim Fidler as Terry: Best known for his roles in Six, Boy in the Walls, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Mikkal Karim Fidler plays one of the leading young characters, Terry, IT: Welcome to Derry.

Jack Molloy Legault as Phil: Jack Molloy Legaunlt, of the Home Sweet Home Alone and Three Pines fame, appears as Phil in IT: Welcome to Derry‘s opening arc.

Amanda Christine as Veronica: Amanda Christine appears as another young lead, Veronica, in the series. She is recognizable for her roles in Black Box, Bunk’d, Colony, and Black-ish.

Miles Ekhardt as Matty: Miles Ekhardt’s Matty is another young lead in HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry‘s opening arc. Before the Stephen King horror series, Ekhardt made his acting debut with Turtles All the Way Down.