Catherine Parker as Poppy Hill, one of the ghosts inhabiting Hill House, wife of William Hill and considered insane when alive.Olive Elise Abercrombie as Abigail, young Luke's friend from the woods.He appears as Tall Man / Bowler Hat Man.Fedor Steer as William Hill, former owner of Hill House who went insane and bricked himself behind a wall.Anna Enger as Joey, a recovering addict that Luke tries to help.May Badr as Allie Harris, daughter of Shirley and Kevin.Logan Medina as Jayden Harris, son of Shirley and Kevin.Elizabeth Becka as Aunt Janet, sister of Olivia Crain.Jordane Christie as Arthur Vance, Nell's sleep technologist and later husband.James Lafferty as Ryan Quale, an apparition from Shirley's memory.
Levy Tran as Trish Park, Theo's girlfriend.He and his wife are the caretakers of the house and help the Crains in their efforts to revamp the mansion. Samantha Sloyan as Leigh Crain, Steven's wife.Anthony Ruivivar as Kevin Harris, Shirley's husband.She and her husband are the caretakers of the house and help the Crains in their efforts to revamp the mansion. She has never fully recovered from the haunting she experienced while living in Hill House. Victoria Pedretti as Eleanor "Nell" Crain Vance, Luke's younger twin and one of the two youngest members of the family."Sensitive" like her mother, she wears gloves to prevent touching other people and experiencing psychic knowledge about them. Kate Siegel as Theodora "Theo" Crain, the middle child of the five, and a child psychologist.Julian Hilliard portrays a younger Luke.He struggles with addiction as an adult to push out his memories of Hill House. Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Luke Crain, older twin of Nell and one of the two youngest members of the family.Lulu Wilson portrays a younger Shirley.She owns a mortuary with her husband Kevin. Elizabeth Reaser as Shirley Crain Harris, the eldest daughter of the family.He becomes estranged from his children after the events at Hill House. Henry Thomas as Hugh Crain, the father of the family, who flips houses.She, along with her daughter Nell, is among the most affected by the paranormal activity in the house. Carla Gugino as Olivia Crain, the matriarch of the family, who designs houses.Paxton Singleton portrays a young Steven.He became a famous author after writing about his family's experiences at Hill House, despite his siblings' disapproval. Michiel Huisman as Steven Crain, the eldest son of the family.Twenty-six years later, the Crain siblings and their estranged father reunite after tragedy strikes again, and they are forced to confront how their time in Hill House has affected each of them. However, due to unexpected repairs, they have to stay longer, and they begin to experience increasing paranormal phenomena, resulting in a tragic loss and the family fleeing from the house. In the summer of 1992, Hugh and Olivia Crain and their children - Steven "Steve", Shirley "Shirl", Theodora "Theo", Luke, and Eleanor "Nell" - move into Hill House to renovate the mansion in order to sell it and build their own house, designed by Olivia. The Haunting of Hill House received critical acclaim, particularly for its acting, directing and production values, with many calling it an "effective ghost story." A second season with a different story and characters, titled The Haunting Of Bly Manor and based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, is set to be released in 2020.
The series premiered on Netflix on October 12, 2018. The ensemble cast features Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Kate Siegel, and Victoria Pedretti as the adult counterparts of the siblings, with Carla Gugino and Henry Thomas as parents Olivia and Hugh Crain, and Timothy Hutton appearing as an older version of Hugh. The plot alternates between two timelines, following five adult siblings whose paranormal experiences at Hill House continue to haunt them in the present day, and flashbacks depicting events leading up to the eventful night in 1992 when the family fled from the mansion.
The first season is loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House is an American anthology supernatural horror drama web television series created and directed by Mike Flanagan, and produced by Amblin Television and Paramount Television, for Netflix.