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A character guide for AMC’s “Interview With The Vampire” and “The Vampire Lestat,” including character descriptions, names of actors, quotes from the series, and more.
Please Note: This content contains pertinent spoilers, descriptions are updated as new information is presented, images changed as better ones are captured, and this is not an exhaustive list of every cast member, guest star, or reoccurring role.
General Information
| Network(s) | AMC+ |
| Created By | Rolin Jones |
| Based On | The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice |
| First Aired | 10/1/2022 |
| Executive Produced By | Rolin Jones, Mark Johnson, Anne Rice, Christopher Rice, Alan Taylor |
| Showrunner(s) | Rolin Jones and Alan Taylor |
Groups & Organizations
- The ABCDEFGs (1.1): Paul and Louis’ shuffle group name they performed under while altar boys
- Talamasca (2.3): An organization that tracks 900 to 1600 demons, witches, vampires, and unexplained phenomena
Notable Locations & Items
- Al Sharaf Towers (1.1): Where Louis currently lives in Dubai
- Storyville (1.1): The red light district of New Orleans in 1910, where Louis had notable properties throughout Liberty and Basin Street
- Tom Anderson’s Fairplay Saloon (1.1): An upscale, generally White only, establishment in New Orleans
- Azalea (1.2): After Louis buys the location around 1912, it becomes Azalea
- 1132 Rue Royale (1.4): Louis and Lestat’s home address
- Theatre of Vampires (2.2): While the Paris coven has existed since Charlemagne was king, the Theatre of Vampires was co-founded later on by Lestat and Armand but completely financed by Lestat’s inheritance. The point of the theater was to allow some freedom of expression for vampires, including the ability to be tongue-in-cheek about their existence.
Terminology
- Un petit coup (1.1): The act of a vampire taking enough to drink from someone but only enough to get their fix, not draining someone to the point of death
- Five Vampiric Laws (2.3):
- Law One: Each coven must have its leader, and only he might order the working of the Dark Trick upon a mortal
- Law Two: The Dark Gifts must never be given to the crippled, the maimed, or children
- Law Three: Vampires cannot commit to writing the history of the vampires
- Law Four: No vampire shall ever reveal his or her true nature to a mortal and let the mortal live
- Law Five: No vampire may ever destroy another vampire, except the coven master who has the power of life and death over all his flock
Other Noteworthy Information
- When Things Begin (1.1): 1910
- Time Passed (1.2): We end things around 1917, with Lestat and Louis being together 6 years
- Time Passed (2.1): Four years have passed since Louis and Claudia abandoned Lestat
- Time Passed (2.7): Daniel has had 15 sessions at this point
- Transformation (1.2): Includes vomiting, feeling like you are dying, if not drowning, and then an intense high and feeling of being overstimulated.
- How To Read Minds (1.2): It starts with a heartbeat, then silencing all sounds in the environment, and then you can find your way into a person’s thoughts
- Exclusions (1.2): Vampires can’t read each other’s minds
- Correction (1.4): Makers can’t read the minds of their “Children.”
- Vampire Work Around (1.2): While vampires can’t read each other’s minds, they can send their thoughts
- Exclusions (1.2): Vampires can’t read each other’s minds
- Number of Vampires In Existence (1.2): Around 100 per Lestat
- What Does Human Food Taste Like To A Vampire (1.2): Chalk, paste, soap
- The Cloud Gift (1.6): What floating, or flying, is called, and from what’s we’re told, it is a gift more so of ancient vampires than something that is as common as mind reading
- Year (1.7): The season ends in 1939
- The Sun (1.7): For young vampires, the sun can burn and kill them by setting them on fire. However, as shown by Armand, after a certain age, the sun holds no power over you
Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid)
Interview With The Vampire
An immigrant from France, Lestat originally wanted to settle in St. Louis. However, after seeing Louis in action, running his different territories, he decides New Orleans is a far more interesting place to live and invest.
The Vampire Lestat
At over 265 years old, it could be submitted that, like many a vampire well past the mortality of humanity, Lestat is restless. He is financially comfortable, but in need of stimulation, and after the publishing of Interview With The Vampire, he finds himself enraged in the best way possible. For with the desire to take back his narrative, he is reborn a rockstar, and glam rock gives him all the fun of being outrageous and draws the kind of attention that makes those committed to the old ways nervous.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: John Davinier in “Belle,” Hugo in “The Riot Club.”
- Age (1.2): Roughly 200
- Age (1.4): Around 1927 or 1921 He is around 160
- Age (1.7): Born 1760, turned in 1794
- Maker (1.6): Is a begin known as Magnus who took him in Paris and left him in a room full of corpses for a week, and when he was transformed, there were no rules or counsel, just an inheritance given and his maker disappearing
- First Love (1.6): A boy named Nicolas or Nicky
- Relationship with Louis (2.2): They were together roughly 30 years
- Preference (2.3): Lestat has long preferred men over women
- Murder Attempt (2.7): Claudia tried to kill him on or around 11/23/1939
- Dirt Nap (2.7): Lestat took a 100-year nap, which ended in 1908
Quotes
Reason is a set of leg irons.
— Lestat (1.3)
I didn’t want this. But I have a capacity for enduring.
— Lestat (1.6)
Louis de Point du Lac (Jacob Anderson)
Interview With The Vampire
In 1910, Louis was a 33-year-old man, five years in as head of his family, with various properties on Liberty and Basin street dedicated to the underbelly of Storyville. But, nearly 110 years later, Louis is a different man, a different being. One who is calmer, with no need to tap into his more violent capabilities, and also fully embraces his sexuality.
The Vampire Lestat
The focus of Interview With The Vampire is a southern-born queer man now living a life of leisure while dealing with his demons.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: Grey Worm in “Game of Thrones.”
- Favorite Blood (1.2): AB Negative
- Sexuality Identity (1.2): Identifies as queer
- Last Human Victim (1.2): While Louis still drinks from humans, the last time he killed one was in 2000
- Age (1.7): Born in 1878, turned 1910, and he notes he is 61
- Amount Of Bodies Taken (2.1): Louis has estimated he has taken 7000 souls
Quotes
Daniel Molly (Eric Bogosian) & 1970s Daniel (Luke Brandon Field)
Interview With The Vampire
A journalist with a whirlwind career and personal life, after two Pulitzers, being fired and rehired by major publications a few times, and now towards the end of his career, he finds himself revisiting Louis and his story. With the hopes that, unlike their 1973 encounter, things won’t end as violently.
The Vampire Lestat
An investigative reporter who wrote Louis’ partially unauthorized biography, heavily featuring Lestat. He is now tasked with creating a follow-up focused on Lestat’s life from child to rock star vampire.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: Lawrence Boyd in “Billions,” Gil Eavis in “Succession,” or Captain Danny Ross in “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
- First Wife (1.2): Her name is Alice, and she had half a eyebrow that was brown and blonde
- Family (2.5): Daniel has been married twice and has two daughters
Quotes
Memory is a monster. We forget, it doesn’t.
— Daniel (1.2)
- Diaries are friends of last resort – Daniel (Quoting Cluadia’s diary) | Season 2/ Episode 6
Paul de Point du Lac (Steven Norfleet)
Paul was Louis’ brother, who has long had issues. But, trying to commit him recently only made things worse. But, thankfully, while he does play a holier than thou role, which includes claims of being spoken to by God, often through voices, Paul is generally harmless. Quite annoying sometimes, but harmless and the best friend Louis remembers from his childhood.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: Cecil Franklin in “Genius,” or O.B. Williams/ The Father in “Watchmen (2019).”
Quotes
Lily (Najah Bradley)
Lily was one of the whores at Tom Anderson’s Fairplay Saloon, who was Louis’ favorite. Mainly to talk more than sex.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: “Tales” on BET
Quotes
Florence de Point du Lac (Rae Dawn Chong)
Florence is the matriarch of the Point Du Lac family.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: Squeak in “The Color Purple,” and Betty Currie in “American Crime Story”
Quotes
Grace de Point du Lac (Kalyne Coleman)
Grace is Paul and Louis’ sister who is due to get married soon.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 1 “In Throes of Increasing Wonder”
- Other Productions You May Know The Actor For: First major role
Quotes
Claudia (Bailey Bass and Delainey Hayles)
With her mother’s death when she was born and her father’s abandonment, Claudia was raised by her cruel aunt until a fire nearly killed her. But Louis rescues her, and Lestat makes her a vampire who is eternally a teenager, which complicates Claudia getting older and having desires of the flesh and heart.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 3
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: LaTrice in “The Jenkins Family Christmas” and Tsireya in “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Avatar 3” and “Avatar 4”
- Also Played by: Delainey Hayles (Season 2 Onward)
- Introduced In: Season 2/ Episode 1
- Still Alive? (1.4): As of 1945
- Age (1.4): She is 14
- Age (1.7): Born 1904 and turned 1917 – and she notes she is 36
Quotes
We leave the damage so that we never forget the damage.
— Claudia (1.6)
Better ugly than blind.
— Claudia (1.6)
Tom (Chris Stack)
Tom Anderson is a notable businessman in Storyville.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 3
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Dr. Michael McBain and Brad White in “One Life To Live”
Quotes
Alderman Fennick (John DiMaggio)
Alderman Fennick is a local politician who says one thing to Louis’ face, while calling him anything but a child of God in his head. Mainly because Louis is Black.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 3
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Bender in “Futurama”
Quotes
Jonah Macon (Thomas Antony Olajide)
Jonah is Louis’ first love, who he met when Jonah was 16, and Louis a bit older
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 3
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Dezi in “Learn To Swim” and Jabari Jordan in “White Lie“
Quotes
Armand fka Rashid (Assad Zaman)
Originally, Armand presents himself as Rashid, Louis’ right-hand man and the person who helps run his household. However, in time Rashid reveals he is the vampire Armand, a being older and more talented as a vampire than Louis and his current lover.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 3
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Anish Sengupta in “Hotel Portofino” and Asif in “Small Axe”
- Weight (1.5): Weighs 138 lbs
- Age (1.7): He is 514 years old
- Age (1.6): Is noted to be in his 20s
- Relationship with Louis (2.1): Armand has been with Louis for at least 70 years
- Specific Number (2.2): It was 77 years
- Leader of the Paris Coven (2.3): Despite French being his weakest known language, of a total of four, he was tasked with leading the Paris coven.
- First Coven (2.3): In 1556, Armand was part of the Roman coven
- Power (2.3): In addition to being able to float, Armand can freeze time and has telekinetic type powers
- Backstory (2.4): Armand tells Louis that he is from Delhi, and his name originally wasn’t Armand; it was Amadeo or Arun, and he was sold as a child into slavery to a ship’s captain, later sold to a brothel, but was rescued by his maker at 15. Later on, when he was 22, his maker reluctantly gave him the dark gift.
Quotes
Levi (Christian Robinson)
Levi is Grace’s husband.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 3
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Tiny, aka Tony, in “BMF” and Big Cee in “Burning Sands“
Quotes
Charlie (Xavier Mills)
Charlie is a wagon driver that catches Cluadia’s eye, and despite him seeing her as younger than him, despite her being older, the two date. But, because of Claudia’s hormones being that of a teenager, combined with her being a vampire, Charlie gets bled dry when she feeds on him.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 4
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Dame in “The Wood (TBD)”
Quotes
Bruce (Damon Daunno)
Bruce is a vampire from Europe who assaults Claudia when she is trying to discover herself.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 5
- The Actor’s Past and Future Roles Include: Danny in “The Hating Game”
Quotes
Antoinette (Maura Grace Athari)
Antoinette was a locally famous, up-and-coming singer whose career is stalled due to getting involved with Lestat and becoming one of his lovers.
Additional Information
- Introduced In: Season 1/ Episode 6
Quotes
Stephanie Hayes As Emelia
Emelia is what can be seen as an authority figure of a rural area in Romania, who often seems to be the one making sure people get some meat with their meal; she is one of the first friendly faces Claudia and Louis encounter when they are in Romania.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 1
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Quotes
Blake Ritson As Morgan
Morgan is a journalist from Eastern Europe, whom Louis quickly befriends and even reveals his true name to. However, with Morgan being a journalist, he picks apart Louis and Claudia’s story, thus making him someone with whom neither can maintain a conversation. This may also factor in him being abandoned, despite his pleas, as Emelia is killed.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 1
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Quotes
Diana Gheorghian As Daciana
Daciana is an old-world vampire who, after her kind being hunted and now in a poor state, decides she no longer wishes to live.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 1
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Quotes
Santiago (Ben Daniels)
The lead actor of the Theater of Vampires, Santiago, relishes in the spotlight and holds everyone’s attention. It’s one of the reasons Armand was attracted to him at one time. However, with Louis nodding off during one of his performances, the two have been enemies ever since.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 2
Additional Information
- Age (2.3): Is noted to be one of the youngest amongst the coven
Quotes
Raglan James (Justin Kirk)
A representative of the Talamasca, Raglan James, or RJ, has taken an interest in Daniel’s book and his assumption it would ever see the light of day.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 3
- The actor is also known for their role in “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.”
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Quotes
Madeline Éparvier (Roxane Duran)
Madeline is a seamstress who, due to having a tryst with a German soldier, a lieutenant at the time, has been marked as a traitor and finds herself constantly harassed due to that romance.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 4
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Quotes
Rashid (Bally Gill)
The real Rashid is a member of The Talamasca and is tasked with watching Louis and Armand, especially as Daniel Molloy interviews them.
- Introduced In: Season 2 Episode 6
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Quotes
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