Ryan Murphy’s new series The Shards brings Bret Easton Ellis’ semi-autobiographical thriller to life in a new, seductive drama.
The show is set at a 1980s elite Los Angeles prep school and follows a fictionalised version of the author in his younger years.
His cliquey, privileged high school social group is thrown into turmoil when a mysterious new student arrives at the same time that a serial killer known as The Trawler starts to stalk his beloved city.
True to form for a Ryan Murphy production, the cast is made up of regular collaborators, rising stars and nepo babies.
For those who are already hooked on The Shards, here’s where you’ve seen the cast before…
Igby takes the lead as author Bret Easton Ellis, in this adaptation of his 2023 semi-fictional novel.
Before being cast in The Shards, the actor was best known for appearing in Mike Flanagan’s spooky Netflix shows, having starred as altar boy Warren Flynn in Midnight Mass, leukaemia patient Kevin in The Midnight Club and Camile’s assistant Toby in The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
His other credits include playing Kevin in the comedy The Sex Lives Of College Girls, Dr. Scott Marcus in Grey’s Anatomy and a friend of one of the survivors in Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy.
Kaia Gerber is one of the aforementioned nepo babies involved in The Shards. While once known as simply the daughter of supermodel Cindy Crawford, Kaia is now a star in her own right.
As an actor, Kaia has appeared in the films Bottoms with Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott and Outcome with Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz, as well as Mother Mary alongside Anne Hathaway earlier this year.
On TV, she has a recurring role in the Apple TV+ comedy Palm Royale as optimistic manicurist Mitzi, appeared in the comedy Overcompensating as campus queen bee and played herself in Hacks.
The Shards is not her first Ryan Murphy project, either.
Kaia previously played the bloodthirsty ghost Ruby in 2021’s American Horror Stories and pre-med student Kendall in American Horror Story: Double Feature.
Since Kaia shares more than a resemblance to her gorgeous supermodel mother, she has also modelled in print and on the runway for the likes of Versace, Calvin Klein and Jimmy Choo.
As the surname indicates, Homer is the son of Pretty Woman star Richard Gere and his second wife, Licence To Kill actor Carey Lowell.
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