'THE TERROR' EPIC SERIES
MEET THE CHARACTERS!
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The Terror starts March 26th Monday |
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The series is based on the best selling novel by Dan Simmons |
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The Terror will have ten hour long episodes |
THE STORY OF THE TERROR
is set in 1847. A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the
unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, THE TERROR highlights all that can go wrong
when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other. Meet the main characters below:
is set in 1847. A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the
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David Kajganich is the showrunner of the mini series |
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Nive Nielsen plays the lead female character of Lady Silence |
CAPTAIN FRANCIS CROZIER
Played by Jarred Harris, Captain of the HMS Terror and second in
command of the expedition, Francis Crozier is a peerless sailor who has reached his glass ceiling in Her Majesty's Royal Navy.
Played by Jarred Harris, Captain of the HMS Terror and second in

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
Played by Ciaran Hinds,Captain of HMS Erebus and commander of the

CAPTAIN JAMES FITZJAMES
Played by Tobias Menzies, James Fitzjames is a rising star in the British

DOCTOR HENRY GOODSIR
Played by Paul Ready, the most junior of the expedition's four doctors,

CORNELIUS HICKEY
Played by Adam Nagaitis, Cornelius Hickey is a young petty officer whose

THOMAS BLANKY
Played by Ian Hart, Ice Master of Terror and longtime friend of Francis
