Julie Plec’s (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Legacies) newest undertaking concerning the undead has set its solid.
The collection is described as “a narrative of romance, friendship, demise, intercourse, and scandal.”
Vampire Academy is predicated on a collection of younger grownup paranormal romance novels by worldwide bestselling writer Richelle Mead.
In a world of privilege and glamour, two younger ladies’s friendship transcends their strikingly completely different courses as they put together to finish their training and enter royal vampire society.
This serialized and attractive drama combines the class of aristocratic romance and the supernatural thrills of the vampire style.
“St. Vladmir’s Academy isn’t simply any boarding faculty — it’s a hidden place the place vampire royals are educated and half-human teenagers prepare to guard them from the savage ‘Strigoi’ vampires who wish to see them destroyed,” reads the logline.
Plec is on board as Showrunner / Author / Govt Producer / Director, and she or he’ll be joined by Marguerite MacIntyre, who starred as Sheriff Liz Forbes on The Vampire Diaries.
MacIntyre had an enormous half within the artistic means of The Originals. On Vampire Academy, the actress will function co-showrunner, author, and EP.
Different EPs embody Emily Cummins, Don Murphy, Susan Montford, Deepak Nayar, and Jillian DeFrehn.
Administrators additionally embody Bille Woodruff (first episode), Luis Prieto, Jesse Warn, Erica Dunton, and Geoff Shotz.
Learn beneath for the complete solid.
SISI STRINGER (Mortal Kombat) will play Rose Hathaway, a vampire-human hybrid referred to as a Dhampir.
Fiery and outspoken, Rose is a real fighter in spirit and in apply. She at all times jumps into motion, and as a rule, this ends in demerits.
She is likely to be the strongest fighter in her class, however her success will rely totally on her willingness to toe the road when it counts.
DANIELA NIEVES (Intercourse Attraction, 5 Factors) will play Lissa Dragomir, a Royal Moroi vampire.
Rising up the youthful sister to the inheritor obvious, Princess Vasilisa Dragomir is a carefree, kind-hearted, royal princess coasting via her research and fortunately chasing enjoyable.
Lissa is uninterested within the political machinations of the Royal Court docket or the hypocrisy of Moroi royal society.
However with a sudden demise in her household, Lissa is thrust into a job she’s neither educated for neither is emotionally outfitted to deal with.
KIERON MOORE (Masters of the Air, Intercourse Training) will play Dimitri Belikov, the mannequin of a Dhampir guardian: deadly, disciplined, discreet, and completely dedicated to his position as bodyguard to the ruling Moroi, the “good,” mortal vampires of his world.
He lives by a deep ethical code, however beneath his stoic, watchful floor, there’s an expansive spirit that might threaten to reveal the underlying rigidity between his sense of what’s proper and his formal responsibility to the Moroi.
ANDRÉ DAE KIM (Degrassi, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds) will play Christian Ozera, a Royal Moroi vampire.
Clever and considerate, Christian is the pariah of the varsity and royal court docket, because of his dad and mom’ unforgivable societal sins.
Nicely-read and hungry for information, he searches for faith-based solutions and discovers a kindred spirit who can be on the lookout for the reality.
J. AUGUST RICHARDS (Angel, Technology) will play Victor Dashkov.
Victor is a Moroi noble vampire with a coronary heart of gold who’s extremely regarded for his position as advisor and political strategist to Moroi dignitaries.
He’s a fierce loyalist who makes use of his intelligence and affect to guard that which he values most: the well-being of his husband and two adopted daughters, in addition to the betterment of his Moroi neighborhood.
ANITA-JOY UWAJEH (West Finish’s Cyrano de Bergerac and King Lear) will play Tatiana Vogel.
Tatiana is a Moroi vampire and political underdog who slowly takes the royal court docket by storm.
Motivated by love and a way of justice, Tatiana has a novel talent of creating herself appear of no consequence till we notice a lot too late that she was at all times the one to look at.
MIA MCKENNA-BRUCE (West Finish’s Billy Elliot The Musical, The Dumping Floor) will play Mia Karp, a scholar at St. Vladimir’s Academy.
Witty, chopping, and simply the correct of ruthless when obligatory, non-Royal Mia has a long-term plan to social climb her approach into the ranks of royalty, with all of the privilege and freedom that entails.
A plan difficult by her on the spot chemistry with Meredith, a Guardian-in-training, as Mia struggles to reconcile her attraction to Meredith together with her lowly standing.
RHIAN BLUNDELL (Torchwood: Consider, Physician Who: The Dread of Evening) will play Meredith, a good, strong-willed Dhampir who’s a eager observer, which makes her a superb strategist and a worthwhile asset.
She has little persistence for Rose’s volatility or Mia’s elitism and recurrently calls each of them out.
JONETTA KAISER (Tales, Breakwater) will play Sonya Karp.
Quiet, cautious, and decidedly odd, Sonya is just not of royal bloodline and sits out on the perimeter of Moroi society, preferring to spend her time within the library or her gardens.
Not an individual who likes a scene, nonetheless, she has a quiet however profound energy of her personal. She is taken unexpectedly when a Dhampir Guardian named Mikhail exhibits curiosity in her, a relationship that may expose each the brightest and darkest elements of her coronary heart.
ANDREW LINER (Grown-ish) will play Mason Ashford.
Charming, loyal and widespread, Mason is Rose’s primary competitors within the quest to develop into the primary Guardian-in-training.
Although their relationship is informal on her aspect, he’s hopeful she’s going to lastly take a look at him and see him as one thing extra.
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