The Man in the High Castle (TV series)

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• Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain, a young woman from San Francisco who is outwardly happy living under Japanese control. She is an expert in aikido and is friendly with the Japanese people who live in San Francisco. As Juliana learns of the Man in the High Castle and his films, she begins to rebel.
• Rupert Evans as Frank Frink, Juliana's boyfriend. He works in a factory creating replicas of prewar American pistols, and creates original jewelry and sketches on his own time. Frank's grandfather was Jewish, making him a target of discrimination. When Juliana vanishes just after the police kill her sister, Frank is taken into custody. Soon after, he turns against the state and works with the American Resistance.
• Luke Kleintank as Joe Blake, a new recruit to the underground American Resistance who is actually an agent working for the Schutzstaffel, under Obergruppenführer John Smith. He transports a reel of the forbidden film The Grasshopper Lies Heavy to the neutral Rocky Mountain States as part of his mission to infiltrate the Resistance. He meets Juliana and quickly falls in love with her, leading to him questioning his allegiance to the Reich.
• DJ Qualls as Ed McCarthy, Frank's co-worker and friend. He closely follows politics and cares very much about Juliana and Frank's well-being. It is revealed in season three that Ed is gay.
• Joel de la Fuente as Colonel Takeshi Kido, the chief inspector who is the ruthless head of the Kempeitai stationed in San Francisco
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Nobusuke Tagomi, the Trade Minister of the Japanese Pacific States. His true loyalties are ambiguous throughout the first season.
• Rufus Sewell as John Smith, an SS Obergruppenführer, later promoted to SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, and then to Reichsmarschall of the colony of North America who is investigating the Resistance in New York. He is a natural-born American who had served in the US Army Signal Corps before taking the Reich's offer to join them. He initially lives a comfortable suburban life with a wife and three children but subsequently moves the family to Manhattan.
• Chelah Horsdal as Helen Smith, John Smith's wife and a socialite in New York City. A natural-born American before the war, she plays an enormous role in John Smith switching allegiance to the Nazis. She later faces a crisis about the consequences of that decision when her own son gives his life for the regime and her whole world collapses.
• Brennan Brown as Robert Childan, an antique store owner who makes secret deals with Frank
• Callum Keith Rennie as Gary Connell, leader of the West Coast Resistance movement and enforcer for Abendsen
• Bella Heathcote as Nicole Dörmer, a young Berlin-born filmmaker who crosses paths with Joe, and moves to the American Reich in the third season
• Michael Gaston as Mark Sampson, a Jewish friend of Frank's living in San Francisco, who later relocates to the Neutral Zone
• Jason O'Mara as Wyatt Price, also known as Liam, an Irishman who is a black market supplier of information to Juliana
• Frances Turner as Bell Mallory, the leader of the Black Communist Rebellion in San Francisco

Recurring

Greater Nazi Reich

• Aaron Blakely as Erich Raeder, an Sturmbannführer, John Smith's right-hand man
• Carsten Norgaard as Rudolph Wegener, a disillusioned high-ranking Nazi official who trades secrets with Tagomi, friends with John Smith
• Bernhard Forcher as Hugo Reiss, the German ambassador to the Japanese Pacific States
• Aubrey Deeker as Kurt Scausch, a member of the SS working alongside Hugo Reiss
• Neal Bledsoe as SS-Captain Connolly, an American SS officer serving under John Smith, later revealed to be a spy working for Reinhard Heydrich
• Raresh DiMofte as Karl Müller, a SS-Sturmbannführer who was sent to San Francisco in order to assassinate the Japanese crown prince to provoke a war between the GNR and JPS
• Sebastian Roché as Martin Heusmann, a high-ranking Reichsminister in the Nazi government and Joe Blake's biological father
• Adrian Hough as Carl Weber, the Nazi ambassador to the JPS, replacing Hugo Reiss
• Eric Lange as General Whitcroft, John Smith's second-in-command
• Marc Rissmann as Wilhelm Goertzmann, an Obergruppenführer from Berlin

• Jessie Fraser as Rita Pearce, Joe's lover, who leaves him after finding out about Juliana
• Carter Ryan Evancic as Buddy Pearce, Rita's son, who viewed Joe as a surrogate father
• Kevin McNulty as Dr. Gerald Adler, John's family doctor who diagnosed Thomas
• Gillian Barber as Alice Adler, Gerald's wife, who begins to become paranoid of the Smiths
• Emily Holmes as Lucy Collins, a friend of Helen's and Juliana's
• Kurt Evans as Henry Collins, Lucy's husband, who was executed during a broadcast for revealing Hitler's death
• Giles Panton as Billy Turner, a Nazi Reich American advertising executive who is working with Nicole Dörmer to erase the memories of the former U.S. from the minds of the citizens in the Nazi Reich America
• Laura Mennell as Thelma Harris, a closeted lesbian gossip column reporter in New York City
• Jeffrey Nordling as Daniel Ryan, a Jungian therapist employed to treat Helen Smith's grief following the death of her son Thomas
• Diane Greenwood as Fatima Hassan, a traveler from a parallel world who was captured by the Nazis
• Charlie Hofheimer as Daniel Levine, John's Jewish friend who was executed after the Nazis took over America. In the alt-world, he is alive.
• Rachel Nichols as Martha, Helen Smith's "wife-companion" assigned by the Reich to keep an eye on her

• Quinn Lord as Thomas Smith, John and Helen's son and the eldest child. A member of the Hitler Youth, it is later revealed that he has inherited a form of muscular dystrophy from his father's side of the family. Learning this, he turns himself in to the Reich Sanitation Services and is euthanized. In season 4, Lord plays Thomas in an alternate universe in which the Axis lost the war.
• Gracyn Shinyei as Amy Smith, John and Helen's daughter
• Genea Charpentier as Jennifer Smith, John and Helen's daughter and youngest child
• Meg Heus as Bridget, a maid of the Smiths in their new apartment

• Stefanie von Pfetten as Kathrina Wegener, Rudolph's ex-wife
• Jara Zeimer as Klaudia Wegener, Rudolph and Kathrina's daughter
• Luke Roessler as Otto Wegener, Rudolph and Kathrina's son, who has an estranged relationship with his father

Japanese Pacific States

• Lee Shorten as Hiroyuki Yoshida, a sergeant and Inspector Kido's right-hand man
• Arnold Chun as Kotomichi, Tagomi's aide-de-camp, who came from the parallel world after his hometown, Nagasaki, was destroyed by an American atomic bomb
• Daisuke Tsuji as the Crown Prince of Japan
• Mayumi Yoshida as the Crown Princess of Japan
• Amy Okuda as Christine Tanaka, an office worker working in the Nippon Building
• Tzi Ma as General Hidehisa Onoda, a leading member of the Japanese Army
• Bruce Locke as General Yamori, a hardline Japanese general in favour of continuing the occupation of the JPS
• Akie Kotabe as Nakamura, a Japanese-American sergeant of mixed ethnicity who works under Kido as Yoshida's replacement
• Eijiro Ozaki as Admiral Inokuchi, an admiral and the head of the Imperial Japanese Navy fleet stationed in the San Francisco Bay
• Sen Mitsuji as Toru Kido, Inspector Kido's son who suffers from PTSD
• Rich Ting as Iijima, a Japanese captain

• Jack Keler as Harlan Wyndam-Matson, the owner of the factory where Frank and Ed work
• Frank C. Turner as Jim McCarthy, Ed's grandfather who dislikes the American resistance
• Michael Eber as Doni, a person in the same aikido class as Juliana, who seems to have a crush on her
• Hiro Kanagawa as Taishi Okamura, the leader of a Yakuza based in the Pacific States
• Louis Ozawa Changchien as Paul Kasoura, a wealthy lawyer who collects prewar American memorabilia
• Tao Okamoto as Betty Kasoura, Paul's wife
• Michael Hagiwara as Okami, a Yakuza boss operating in the JPS
• Chika Kanamoto as Yukiko, Childan's assistant and later wife

• Daniel Roebuck as Arnold Walker, Juliana's step-father and Trudy's father
• Macall Gordon as Anne Crain Walker, Juliana's mother who is still bitter about losing her husband in World War II
• Conor Leslie as Trudy Walker, Juliana's half-sister who is shot dead by the Kempeitai. However, she is shown alive at the end of season 2, revealed in the third season to be from an alternate timeline in which it was Juliana who died.

• Christine Chatelain as Laura Crothers, Frank's sister, who is gassed in an attempt to pressure Frank into a confession
• Darren Dolynski as Bill Crothers, Laura's husband and Frank's brother-in-law, who blames Frank for the death of Laura
• Callum Seagram Airlie as John Crothers, Bill and Laura's son, gassed alongside his mother
• Carmen Mikkelsen as Emily Crothers, Bill and Laura's daughter, gassed alongside her mother

• Yukari Komatsu as Michiko Tagomi, Nobusuke's wife
• Eddie Shin as Noriaki Tagomi, Nobusuke and Michiko's son, who is Juliana's husband in a parallel universe
• Tamlyn Tomita as Tamiko Watanabe, an Okinawan-Hawaiian painter who befriends Tagomi

• Yael Yurman as Clara Sampson, Mark's daughter
• Ruairi MacDonald as Charlie Sampson, Mark's son

Neutral Zone

• Allan Havey as the Origami Man, a Sicherheitsdienst operative sent to Cañon City to eliminate members of the Resistance
• Burn Gorman as the Marshal, a bounty hunter searching for concentration camp escapees
• Shaun Ross as the Shoe Shine Boy, a young albino man living in Cañon City
• Rob LaBelle as Carl, a book store clerk in Cañon City who is revealed to be a concentration camp escapee, David P. Frees
• Geoffrey Blake as Jason Meyer, a Jewish member of the Resistance
• Shannon Day as Katie Owens, a woman who stole Juliana's bag at a bus stopover, which contained fake films
• Janet Kidder as Lila Jacobs, one of the many Jews protected in a Catholic commune in the Neutral Zone, and also Mark Sampson's love interest
• James Neate as Jack, a man in the Neutral Zone with whom Ed McCarthy becomes romantically involved

Resistance

• Michael Rispoli as Don Warren, the manager who gave Joe the mission to go to Cañon City, who is later executed by John Smith
• Geoffery Blake as Jason "Doc" Meyer, a member of the American resistance working with Don Warren
• Rick Worthy as Lemuel "Lem" Washington, the owner of the Sunrise Diner in Cañon City and member of the Resistance
• Camille Sullivan as Karen Vecchione, a leader of the Pacific States branch of the Resistance
• Hank Harris as Randall Becker, a member of the Pacific States branch of the Resistance
• Cara Mitsuko as Sarah, a Japanese American Resistance member, Frank's confidante and a survivor of the Manzanar concentration camp
• Tate Donovan as George Dixon, Trudy's biological father and a member of the resistance in New York City
• Michael Hogan as Hagan, an ex-priest and leader in the San Francisco Resistance
• Stephen Root as Hawthorne Abendsen / the Man in the High Castle, the head of the American resistance, creating films set in other worlds
• Ann Magnuson as Caroline Abendsen, Hawthorne Abendsen's wife
• Clé Bennett as Elijah, Bell Mallory's lover and one of the members of the BCR
• David Harewood as Equiano Hampton, the leader of the BCR

Historical characters

• Wolf Muser as Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Greater Nazi Reich
• Ray Proscia as Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
• Keone Young as Shunroku Hata, a field marshal
• Kenneth Tigar as Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and later the new Führer
• Lisa Paxton as Eva Braun, Hitler's wife
• David Furr as George Lincoln Rockwell, the Reichsmarschall of German-controlled America
• William Forsythe as J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the American Reich Bureau of Investigation
• John Hans Tester as Josef Mengele, the head of studies about trans-universe travel
• Gwynyth Walsh as Margarete Himmler, Himmler's wife and the head of the Reich Red Cross
• Timothy V. Murphy as Adolf Eichmann, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
• Hiromoto Ida as Hirohito, the Japanese emperor

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