After his stunning and well-crafted Netflix series Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan fans are eagerly waiting for the October 7th premiere of The Midnight Club. The show, adapted from the book by Christopher Pike, follows eight patients staying at a hospital called Brightcliffe who try to scare each other by sharing horrifying stories. This is definitely an appealing premise and it will be cool to see where the story takes the characters.While there are a few cast members who don't have Instagram accounts, fans can follow several The Midnight Club actors on social media and learn more about them before checking out the series.
Zach Gilford (@zackgilrford713) - 30k followers
Best known for playing sweet football player Matt Saracen on Friday Night Lights, Zach Gilford also played the main character Riley Flynn in Midnight Mass who returns to Crockett Island and finds a mystery unlike anything he had ever anticipated. Gilford's characters are often kind-hearted, quiet, and thoughtful. The actor has a large Instagram following of 30,000.
Riley is one of the bravest Midnight Mass characters and it will be interesting to see how The Midnight Club characters fare during what looks from the trailer like an absolutely frightening experience. Brightcliffe has the perfect creepy setting that fans of Flanagan's work have come to expect.
Ruth Codd (@ruthcodd) - 4,299 followers
Ruth Codd is another The Midnight Club cast member and has just over 4,000 followers on her Instagram account. The actor wrote in her Instagram bio, "What I lack in limbs I make up for in charisma."
Codd is also starring in The Fall Of The House Of Usher, which is one of Mike Flanagan's upcoming projects, adapted from the short story from Edgar Allan Poe that was published in 1839. The man telling the story, whose name is never given, visits his friend Roderick Usher and learns that his relatives are sick. It's an eerie tale that will be perfect for Flanagan.
Aya Furukawa (@aya.eyes) - 24.2k followers
Aya Furukawa's Instagram bio reads "Natsuki on The Midnight Club...coming Oct 7." The actor shared several photos of the upcoming series and in one caption, wrote, "A group of teens telling scary stories in a mysterious hospice - What could possibly go wrong?"
Furukawa is also starring in The Fall of the House of Usher and is known for playing Claudia Kishi's older sister Janine in Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club series, a sweet and smart character who feels distant from her family sometimes.
Rahul Kohli (@rahulkohli13) - 499k followers
Rahul Kohli is another actor who has appeared in several of Flanagan's Netflix series. The actor played the kind character Owen in The Haunting of Bly Manor and Sheriff Hassan in Midnight Mass. Kohli also played Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti in iZombie.
Kohli has almost 500,000 Instagram followers and his characters Owen and Hassan are both intelligent, serious, careful, and in touch with their emotions.
Heather Lagenkamp (@langenkamph) - 7,820 followers
Heather Lagenkamp is known for playing Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare On Elm Street, one of the best horror movie final girls. It's exciting to see Lagenkamp play a doctor at the hospital in The Midnight Club. In her Instagram bio, Lagenkamp wrote, "Actor. Fought Freddy 3x as Nancy Thompson. Starring in Netflix’s The Midnight Club playing Doctor Stanton and ??"
Lagenkamp doesn't post on Instagram often and has 11 posts. After the Wes Craven horror film that brought her fame, the actor played Marie Lubbock on the TV series Just The Ten Of Us and Amy Boutilier/Marie on series Growing Pains
William Chris Sumpter (@william.chris.sumpter) - 2,636 followers
William Chris Sumpter played the character of Young Jamie on the TV series Power and Teen Theo in the movie NYC Dreams, which was released in 2022.
Sumpter is part of the main cast of The Midnight Club and is playing one of the eight hospice patients who are sharing stories with each other and bonding. From the trailer, it looks like the stories that the characters tell are more real than they ever imagined.
Matt Biedel (@mattbiedel) - 4,999 followers
Matt Biedel describes himself as an "Actor. Dad. Former bellhop" in the bio on his Instagram account. He has almost 5,000 followers. The actor is familiar to Midnight Mass fans because he played Sturge, the handyman for the Crockett Island residents.
There are so many great Midnight Mass characters as the people in Flanagan's work are always well-written and layered. It will interesting to see what part Biedel plays in this new series.
Annarah Cymone (@annarahcymone) - 4,969 followers
Annarah Cymone is another actor who has starred in both The Midnight Club and Midnight Mass. Cymone played Leeza Scarborough, one of the most compelling residents of Crockett Island. Leeza is in a wheelchair because of a terrible accident years earlier. She experiences something magical after Father Paul comes onto the island, which is incredible to watch.
Cymone has almost 5,000 Instagram followers and shares selfies. In September 2021, she posted the poster for Midnight Mass.
Iman Benson (@imanbenson) - 53.2k followers
From the trailer for The Midnight Club, viewers learn a bit about Iman Benson's character Illonka, who wants to attend Stanford and then learns that she has thyroid cancer. When Illonka begins staying at Brightcliffe, she becomes close to the other teenagers there and they connect with one another.
Based on the trailer, it looks like The Midnight Club will be one of the most realistic teen series because while there is a paranormal element to the story, the young adult characters are smart, relatable and honest. Benson has a large Instagram following of over 50,000. Benson also played Tia Russell on the TV adaptation of Uncle Buck, Drea Barris on #BlackAF and Reagan on Alexa & Katie.
Igby Rigney (@igby.rigney) - 7,647 followers
Igby Rigney was also part of the cast of Midnight Mass and played Riley's younger brother Warren Flynn, who plays a crucial role in the scary story. The actor is also starring in The Fall of the House of Usher and is also starring in the upcoming movie musical Out Of My Comfort Zone about friends who are dealing with a cyberbully.
Rigney has over 7,000 followers on his Instagram account and shares exciting acting news, including the movie that he is starring in called Southern Gothic.