Mindhunter
2017 American crime thriller television series
MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit , by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs , Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds .
Cast ages at the series premiere (October 13, 2017)
- Holt McCallany, as Bill Tench: 54
- Jonathan Groff, as Holden Ford: 32
- Anna Torv, as Dr. Wendy Carr: 38
- Stacey Roca, as Nancy Tench: 39
- Hannah Gross, as Debbie Mitford: 25
- Cotter Smith, as Unit Chief Shepard: 68
- Lauren Glazier, as Kay Manz: 32
- Michael Cerveris, as Ted Gunn: 56
- June Carryl, as Camille Bell: 50
- Cameron Britton, as Edmund Kemper: 31
- Alex Morf, as Detective Mark Ocasek: 30
- Peter Murnik, as Detective Carver: 51
- Joseph Cross, as Benjamin Barnwright: 31
- Happy Anderson, as Jerry Brudos: 40
- Marc Kudisch, as Roger Wade: 51
- Michael Park, as Peter Dean: 49
- Brent Sexton, as Garland Periwinkle: 50
- Sam Strike, as Monte Rissell: 23
- Lena Olin, as Annaliese Stilman: 62
- Oliver Cooper, as David Berkowitz / Son of Sam: 28
- Robert Aramayo, as Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr.: 24
- Christopher Backus, as Tex Watson: 35
- Damon Herriman, as Charles Manson: 47
- Morgan Kelly, as Paul Bateson: 41