Manifest (TV series)

Storyline

Cast and characters

Main

• Melissa Roxburgh as Michaela "Mick" Stone, a detective who worked at the NYPD's 129th Precinct, and Ben's sister. She was a passenger on Flight 828. She later marries Zeke. Ariana Jalia portrays a younger Michaela.
• Josh Dallas as Ben Stone, a college associate professor in mathematics, Michaela's brother, and father to Olive, Cal and Eden. He was a passenger on Flight 828.
• Athena Karkanis as Grace Stone, Ben's wife, Michaela's sister-in-law, and mother to Olive, Cal and Eden. She runs a catering business. She is fatally stabbed by Angelina at the end of the third season while trying to stop her from abducting Eden and dies in a now-teenage Cal's arms. In the series finale, Ben is reunited with Grace after the passengers are returned to 2013.
• J.R. Ramirez as Jared Vasquez, a detective at the NYPD's 129th Precinct and Michaela's ex-fiancé; he married Michaela's best friend during the five-plus year absence of Flight 828, but they divorce after Michaela's return. Jared is later promoted to lieutenant.
• Luna Blaise as Olive Stone, Ben and Grace's daughter, Michaela's niece, Cal's twin sister, and Eden's older sister. Jenna Kurmemaj portrays a young Olive in the first episode and early flashbacks while Samsara Leela Yett portrays her in the final episode.
• Jack Messina and Ty Doran as Cal Stone, Ben and Grace's son, Michaela's nephew, Eden's older brother, and Olive's twin brother, who is five and a half years younger than she after Flight 828 returns. Cal was a passenger on Flight 828. Jack Messina portrays a younger Cal while Ty Doran portrays a teenage Cal.
• Parveen Kaur as Saanvi Bahl, a doctor and medical researcher at Koch Hospital and passenger on Flight 828. She is later recruited to work for the NSA's Project Eureka task force that is investigating 828.
• Matt Long as Zeke Landon, a hiker who got trapped in a cave during a blizzard and was presumed dead for a year. He returns to life in a situation similar to what happened to Flight 828 passengers. He later marries Michaela and becomes the first person to beat his death date after saving Cal's life. After beating his death date, Zeke develops empathic powers. At the end of the first part of the fourth season, Zeke sacrifices himself to save Cal by absorbing Cal's returned cancer. In the series finale, after being returned to 2013, Michaela meets Zeke again for the first time to pursue a relationship anew as he is seen working as a taxi driver. Colin Critchley portrays a younger Zeke.
• Holly Taylor as Angelina Meyer, a Flight 828 passenger who is held captive by her religiously fanatic parents in Costa Rica after her return, believing her to be a demon or a witch. She is later rescued by Michaela and Zeke and taken in by the Stones to live with them. However, as the intensity of the Callings continues, Angelina slowly loses her sanity and becomes maniacal – a false prophet who believes that she is destined to survive the Death Date and lead God's chosen people in a new world. In the series finale, Angelina's numerous evil deeds result in her not surviving the Death Date and burning to ash instead. While she does show remorse in her final moments, it is not enough to redeem her.
• Daryl Edwards as Robert Vance, the director of the NSA who leads the investigation of the re-emergence of Montego Air Flight 828. Despite apparently being killed in the first season during the raid on a Singularity Project's base, he is revealed to still be alive in the second season. With only a few people aware he is alive, Vance begins working covertly to uncover the mysteries of Flight 828 and his government's sinister objectives. After his survival is revealed to the government in the third season, Vance resumes his old position and heads up a new taskforce known as Project Eureka, examining the rebuilt wreckage of the plane for clues. In the fourth season, Vance has left the NSA and gone rogue again. In the series finale after the passengers are returned to 2013, Vance is called to investigate the disappearances of the eleven passengers who did not survive the Death Date as he passes Ben.

  Recurring

Introduced in season one

• Frank Deal as Bill Daly, the pilot of Flight 828. After vanishing in season 1, he abruptly reappears for a moment in Flight 828's cockpit after the tail fin is returned to the ocean. In the final season, he reappears in the detention center as the subject of government experiments. Angelina later manipulates him into breaking out of his room. Despite Ben's intervention, Daly was shot by the guards. His corpse was later swallowed by a tremor. In a deleted scene from the series finale, Daly is shown to have been resurrected alongside the other lost passengers, but later disintegrates into ash just like the 11 unworthy passengers right in front of Vance and other NSA agents after the plane returns to 2013.
• Leajato Amara Robinson as Daniel Amuta Clarke, the co-pilot of Flight 828. Clarke was one of the 13 "dangerous" passengers the Registry had failed to apprehend.
• Mugga as Bethany Collins, a flight attendant on Flight 828 and Georgia's wife.
• Alfredo Narciso as Captain Riojas, the police captain of the NYPD's 129th Precinct where Michaela and Jared work.
• Curtiss Cook as Radd Campbell, a musician on Flight 828. Before leaving for Jamaica, he left his son with a neighbor.
• Richard Topol as Harvey Stein, a passenger on Flight 828. After three people he told about the Callings died, Harvey came to believe that he was the Angel of Death. Despite Michaela’s efforts to talk him out of it, he killed himself. In the series finale, Harvey is resurrected along with the other lost passengers when the plane is returned to 2013.
• Julienne Hanzelka Kim as Kelly Taylor, a passenger on Flight 828. After the twenty people who watch as the Flight 828 aircraft explodes are warned not to discuss what they know with anyone, Kelly goes on national media to express what she believes. While she is watching herself on television later, she is shot in the head by her housekeeper. The building that she owned later appears as a hiding place for the stowaway Thomas and is discovered to be the hiding place of the Omega Sapphire. In the series finale, Kelly is resurrected along with the other lost passengers when the plane is returned to 2013.
• Malachy Cleary as Steve Stone, Michaela and Ben's father and Cal, Olive, and Eden's grandfather. During season four, Steve takes up a job and later suffers a stroke.
• Geraldine Leer as Karen Stone, Michaela and Ben's mother and Cal, Olive, and Eden's grandmother. She dies while Flight 828 is missing. Her favorite Bible verse is Romans 8:28, which includes "all things work together for good." The verse is often repeated by the Stones when they discuss the callings. By the series finale, Karen is alive when Flight 828 arrives on the date that it was supposed to arrive.
• Omar Torres II as Tony Diaz, a police officer in the NYPD's 129th Precinct.
• Victoria Cartagena as Lourdes, Michaela's former best friend who married Jared after Michaela's disappearance. After learning of Michaela and Jared's brief affair, she divorces Jared.
• Tim Moriarty as Tim Powell, the deputy director of the NSA.
• Jared Grimes as Adrian Shannon, a passenger on Flight 828. He is an entrepreneur who forms the Church of the Returned.
• Olli Haaskivi as Isaiah, a passionate but fragile member of the Church of the Returned. He starts a fire at a nightclub to show others that the Flight 828 passengers are miracles, but dies in the act.
• Adriane Lenox as Beverly, Evie's mother. After the accident which killed her daughter, she blames Michaela for what happened. Beverly later develops dementia and forgets that Evie is dead, and Glen stops giving her the news and lets her believe Evie is just not home. After the death of her husband, she allows Michaela and Zeke to live with her per Greg's video will as Michaela is reluctant to have her in assisted living. In season 4, she is mentioned to have died as seen in "Go-Around" when Michaela nears her tombstone that is next to Evie's tombstone during a jog.
• Daniel Sunjata as Danny, Grace's boyfriend whom she meets after Ben's disappearance.
• Sheldon Best as Thomas, a stowaway smuggled in by Bethany on flight 828.
• Jacqueline Antaramian as Anna Ross, a translator and a Flight 828 passenger. She hid Angelina and Eden upon being convinced that Ben was evil, but quickly found out this was a lie. She was killed by Noelle for helping Noelle's daughter.
• Francesca Faridany as Fiona Clarke, a scientist on Flight 828 who is involved with Unified Dynamic Systems and the Singularity project. After disappearing with Captain Daly, she is found by Cal in a zoned-out state as Angelina manipulates Eden into putting Fiona out of her misery. In the series finale, she is amongst those resurrected after the plane is sent back to 2013.
• Nikolai Tsankov as Marko Valeriev, a Bulgarian passenger of Flight 828 who is among the foreign nationals in the custody of Unified Dynamic Systems and the Singularity project.
• Brandon Schraml as Director Jansen, a representative of The Major. He is tasked with oversight of Autumn Cox.
• Shirley Rumierk as Autumn Cox, a Flight 828 passenger who has outstanding arrest warrants due to being a victim of identity theft. She is used by Laurence's superiors to find out what Ben knows about the Singularity project. In season 4, she is among the Flight 828 passengers who join Angelina's cult. In the series finale, she is one of the eleven passengers who burn to ash on the Death Date for their evil deeds.
• Kerry Malloy as Paul Santino, an ex-attorney passenger on Flight 828 who abused his wife. Santino was one of the 13 “dangerous” passengers the Registry had failed to apprehend. He is among those who sided with Angelina and was reduced to ash by the series finale.
• Marc Menchaca as James Griffin, a robber, retrieved after more than 3 days alive in the East River. He is the first person shown suffering the Death Date.
• Maryann Plunkett as Priscilla Landon, Zeke's mother.
• Ed Herbstman as Troy Davis, a lab tech working with Saanvi to solve the mystery of the 828 passenger mutations. He is drugged and disappears for a while, before resurfacing as a member of the NSA's "Project Eureka" 828 task force. He is apparently working against his will, as he is sympathetic towards the 828 passengers.
• Elizabeth Marvel as Kathryn Fitz/The Major, a woman leading a government entity that is looking to weaponize the "callings" the 828 passengers frequently experience. In "False Horizon", she is identified as U.S. Army Major General Kathryn Fitz, a specialist in psychological warfare with thirty years of experience in covert operations. She is later accidentally poisoned by Saanvi. Before dying, Fitz states that she planned to infect people with the same blood that is in the Flight 828 passengers, in hopes of replicating the mutation. In season 3, Vance is revealed to have covered up the Major’s murder and made it look like the work of an enemy spy in order to protect Saanvi. It is also stated that the government shut down the Major’s project upon the Major's death.