Excellent Apple TV+ alt-history space drama ‘For All Mankind‘ has added three new faces for Season 5 – Sean Kaufman (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Ruby Cruz (Bottoms) and Ines Asserson (Royalteen).
From creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, the most recent fourth season rocketed the action into 2003 with an eight-year time jump since season three, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. The season’s focus was capturing and mining extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. However, simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threatened to undo everything they were working towards.
Sean Kaufman is set to play “Alex Poletov Baldwin”, son of Kelly Baldwin (Cynthy Wu) and grandson of Ed (Joel Kinnaman). Along with starring in two seasons of ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’, Kaufman also popped up in shows such as ‘Manifest’, ‘FBI Most Wanted’ and ‘Walker’.
Ruby Cruz plays “Lily Dale”, the youngest daughter of Mars worker Miles (Toby Kebbell), who set up the Mars rock-smuggling business, and Amanda Dale (Shannon Lucio), who sold the rocks on Earth. Cruz recently starred in the film ‘Bottoms’, along with the TV series ‘Willow’, ‘Mare of Easttown’, and has also popped up on ‘Blue Bloods’ and ‘Castle Rock’.
Ines Asserson takes the role of “A.J. Jarrett”, a US Marine training for a space mission. Asserson is a Norwegian actress known for Netflix’s ‘Royalteen’, and its sequel ‘Royalteen: Princess Margrethe’, along with ‘Harajuku’, and ‘Skam’.
They join the other previously announced new faces this season which includes Mireille Enos, who previously worked with lead Joel Kinnaman on ‘Hanna’ and ‘The Killing’, and takes the role of “Celia Boyd”, a member of the Peacekeeper Security Force on Mars; ‘New Amsterdam’s Tyler Labine as “Fred”, another Mars Peacekeeper; And Costa Ronin (The Americans, Homeland), who plays “Lenya”, a Soviet politician and former cosmonaut.
Alongside Kinnaman, the returning cast includes Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, Toby Kebbell, Tyner Rushing, Daniel Stern and Svetlana Efremova.
Season 4 ended (SPOILERS) with a nine-year time jump to 2012, with the “Goldilocks” asteroid in orbit around Mars and home to Kuznetsov Station. Whilst this season sees a reunion of Kinnaman and Enos, who has played “Ed Baldwin” since season one, and Enos on screen, this may very well be a final season for Kinnaman, given his character was already in ill health and at an advanced age.
Since its global debut, “For All Mankind” has been widely acclaimed as “one of the best shows on television,” and season four holds a perfect 100% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. All four seasons can be found on Apple TV+. In addition to the main series, Apple announced back in April that they have also ordered ‘Star City’, a spin-off telling the alt-history story of the space program from behind the Iron Curtain.
“For All Mankind” is created by Emmy Award winner Moore, and Emmy nominees Wolpert and Nedivi. Wolpert and Nedivi serve as showrunners and executive produce alongside Moore and Davis of Tall Ship Productions, as well as David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Seth Edelstein and Kira Snyder. “For All Mankind” is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
We don’t yet have premiere dates for ‘For All Mankind‘ Season 5 (or ‘Star City‘ Season 1), but both will air on Apple TV+. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
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