Thomas Cocquerel as Tom Raikes (season 1), a sensible young lawyer, smitten when he meets Marian, his late client's orphaned daughter.Blake Ritson as Oscar van Rhijn, Agnes' intelligent and charismatic son who is looking for a rich heiress to guarantee him a proper standard of living and act as a shield for his homosexuality.Harry Richardson as Larry Russell, a recent Harvard University graduate eager to make his way in the world.Taissa Farmiga as Gladys Russell, debuts in society at the end of season one, innocent and naïve, yet ready to be treated as an adult and bridles against her mother, Bertha's, plans for her.Denée Benton as Peggy Scott, a young ambitious African-American writer who works as Agnes' secretary.Louisa Jacobson as Marian Brook, a penniless young gentlewoman whose circumstances force her to live with her estranged aunts.Morgan Spector as George Russell, Bertha's husband, and a classic robber baron representing 'new money.'.Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell, determined to use her money and position to break into a polite society that resists change and newcomers at every turn.The series also shows conflicts faced by the upper and upper middle classes, the African-American upper class, and the domestic workers who tend to all of their needs.Ĭast and characters Main

The two are neighbors across 61st Street near Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The series follows a young woman entering 1882 New York City's rigid social scene who is drawn into the daily conflicts surrounding the new money Russell family and the old money van Rhijn-Brook family. The series has received mostly positive reviews, with particular praise for the costumes, cast and performances of lead actors Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski. In December 2023, the series was renewed for a third season. The first season premiered on January 24, 2022, and the second on October 29, 2023. Originally announced in 2018 for NBC, it was later announced in May 2019 that the show was moved to HBO. The Gilded Age is an American historical drama television series created and written by Julian Fellowes for HBO that is set in the United States during the titular era, the boom years of the 1880s in New York City.

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