Dickinson (TV series)

Premise

Cast and characters

Main

• Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson, an aspiring poet in love with her best friend Sue, who is also her brother's fiancée. She pushes back against her parents' attempts to find her a suitor.
• Adrian Blake Enscoe as Austin Dickinson, Emily and Lavinia's older brother, recently out of college. He is engaged to Sue Gilbert.
• Anna Baryshnikov as Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson, the youngest of the Dickinson siblings; she is upset that her parents are not attempting to find her a suitor. She has her eyes on Joseph Lyman.
• Ella Hunt as Sue Gilbert, Emily's lover and best friend who later marries Austin. She is recently orphaned and lived at a boarding house before moving in with Emily's family, until in later seasons builds the Evergreens, Austin and Sue's house.
• Jane Krakowski as Emily Norcross Dickinson, the mother of Emily, Austin, and Lavinia. She is a housewife with patriarchal views and is upset when her husband hires a maid. In later seasons, she begins to shift to more radical views.
• Toby Huss as Edward Dickinson, the father of Emily, Austin, and Lavinia who holds patriarchal views and disapproves of Emily's writing. He later runs for Congress and defects from the Whig party.
• Amanda Warren as Betty, a local dressmaker and Henry's wife with whom she has a daughter.
• Chinaza Uche as Henry, a writer and editor, hired hand of the Dickinson family, and in season 3 joins the U.S. Army with the goal of arming African American soldiers.

Recurring

• Wiz Khalifa as Death
• Samuel Farnsworth as George Gould, a friend of Austin who is romantically interested in Emily
• Darlene Hunt as Maggie, a maid hired by Edward at the request of Emily
• Gus Birney as Jane Humphrey, the most popular girl in town
• Sophie Zucker as Abby Wood, one of Jane's minions
• Allegra Heart as Abiah Root, one of Jane's minions
• Kevin Yee as Toshiaki, a friend of Jane's
• Gus Halper as Joseph Lyman, the young man in whom Lavinia is interested
• Jason Mantzoukas as Bee, one of Emily's hallucinations
• Robert Picardo as Ithamar Conkey, a townsperson who is a close friend of Mr. Dickinson and who attempts to fall in love with Aunt Lavinia
• Matt Lauria as Ben Newton, a law clerk for Mr. Dickinson
• Jessica Hecht as Aunt Lavinia, Emily Norcross Dickinson's sister, and the world-traveling widowed aunt of Emily, Austin, and Lavinia
• Finn Jones as Samuel Bowles, the editor of the local paper, the Springfield Republican
• Pico Alexander as Henry Shipley, a new lodger at the Dickinson residence, and a former boyfriend of Lavinia
• Will Pullen as Nobody, and as Frazar Stearns, a school friend of Austin's now enrolled at West Point
• Ayo Edebiri as Hattie, a Dickinson family maid and a spiritual medium
• Gabriel Ebert as Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an abolitionist activist and colonel in the Union's 1st South Carolina Volunteers

Notable guest stars

• John Mulaney as Henry David Thoreau
• Zosia Mamet as Louisa May Alcott
• Timothy Simons as Frederick Law Olmsted
• Kelli Barrett as Adelaide May
• Nick Kroll as Edgar Allan Poe
• Ziwe as Sojourner Truth
• Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman
• Chloe Fineman as Sylvia Plath

Production

Development

Casting

Filming

Reception

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Accolades

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