from tv series cast characters begins with one question: who are the people trapped in a town that will not let anyone leave? From, created by John Griffin for MGM+, strands its characters in a nightmare town where the roads loop back, the forest hides worse things, and monsters come out at night. Here is who plays whom.
Boyd Stevens: Harold Perrineau
Harold Perrineau plays Boyd Stevens, the town’s sheriff and de facto leader — the man who keeps order when everything else falls apart. Boyd arrived in the town long before most of the others, and he carries the weight of every death he could not prevent. His son Ellis, played by Corteon Moore, is one of the town’s younger residents, and their father-son relationship is one of the show’s emotional anchors. Perrineau gives Boyd a weary authority: he is the person everyone looks to when night falls, and the person who knows better than anyone that the town’s rules are the only thing keeping people alive.
The Matthews Family: New Arrivals
The Matthews family — Jim, played by Eion Bailey, Tabitha, played by Catalina Sandino Moreno, and their daughter Julie, played by Hannah Cheramy — arrive in the town by accident, like everyone else, and become the audience’s way into its horrors. Jim is practical and stubborn, determined to find a way out; Tabitha is intuitive and haunted by visions of the town’s past; Julie, a teenager, has to grow up fast in a place where growing up can get you killed. Their family story is the heart of the show: how do you protect your kids in a town where the monsters wear familiar faces?
The Townsfolk: Donna, Kenny, Kristi, Fatima and Jade
Around the Matthews family, From builds a deep ensemble. Elizabeth Saunders plays Donna Raines, who runs the town’s communal house and keeps its fragile community together. Ricky He plays Kenny Liu, a deputy and one of the town’s most capable survivors, whose family history is tied to the town itself. Chloe Van Landschoot plays Kristi Miller, the town’s medic, holding together a clinic with almost no supplies. Pegah Ghafoori plays Fatima Hassan, whose story becomes one of the show’s strangest and most heartbreaking threads. And David Alpay plays Jade Herrera, a wealthy newcomer whose arrogance curdles into obsession as he tries to decode the town’s symbols and secrets.
The Nightmare: Monsters, Talismans and the Rules
The town’s rules are simple and terrifying: stay inside after dark, hang a talisman, and never open the door — because the creatures that walk at night look human and sound human, and they want to be let in. The talismans, strange carved stones, are the only protection, and nobody knows who made them or why they work. That mystery is what keeps the cast together: Boyd enforcing the rules, the Matthews family questioning them, and Jade trying to break them. Every season adds another layer — new arrivals, new symbols, new questions about whether escape is even possible.
Why This Cast Works
From works because its cast feels like a real community, not a collection of horror-movie types. Perrineau’s Boyd holds the center, the Matthews family gives the nightmare its human stakes, and the supporting townsfolk — Donna’s warmth, Kenny’s competence, Kristi’s care, Fatima’s mystery, Jade’s obsession — make the town feel lived-in. When someone dies, it hurts, because you knew them. Four seasons in, the show has become one of horror television’s most addictive horror mysteries — and its cast is the reason viewers keep coming back to a town nobody can leave.
Ready to check in? Start with From season one on MGM+ tonight.
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