‘Mayfair Witches’ Boss Reveals Annabeth Gish’s Return in Season 3
Mayfair Witches has confirmed a handful of new stars for Season 3, which has officially wrapped filming. There’s one noteworthy face in showrunner Esta Spalding‘s wrap post: Annabeth Gish.
Gish played Deidre Mayfair, mother to Rowan (Alexandra Daddario), in Mayfair Witches Season 1, but wasn’t in Season 2. She’s seen in a group photo with Daddario, Spalding, Tongayi Chirisa, Alyssa Jirrels, Eliza Scanlen, and more. Gish seems to be coming back in Season 3, but Deidre died in Season 1, so how she’s returning is now a burning question.
As previously announced, the third season of the supernatural drama is moving from New Orleans to Salem. The season will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new “spellbound” families, and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, Massachusetts, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.
Here’s everything we know about Mayfair Witches Season 3.
Who is in the Mayfair Witches Season 3 cast?
Gish is in Spalding’s wrap photo taken on set, along with another new face for the series, Gabrielle Rose from Virgin River, Final Destination: Bloodlines, and more.
“That’s a wrap on S3! And here’s some of the fam getting ready for the last chilly night of shooting!” Spalding wrote on February 21 (see below).
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Following the casting announcement of Breaking Bad‘s Betsy Brandt in October, the AMC Immortal Universe series announced that Michiel Huisman, Little Women‘s Eliza Scanlen, and James Frain will be in the upcoming season. Better Call Saul alum Omar Maskati has also joined as a series regular.
Maskati will play a character named Leo in Mayfair Witches Season 3, per TV Line. Maskati played a character named Omar in seven episodes of Better Call Saul Season 2. The Breaking Bad spinoff was executive produced by Mark Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe. Maskati can also be seen in Unbelievable and Tyrant.
Alexandra Daddario returns as Rowan in Season 3, alongside costars Harry Hamlin (Cortland Mayfair), Tongayi Chirisa (Ciprien Grieve), and Alyssa Jirrels (Moira Mayfair). Jack Huston is not among the cast list, implying that his character, Lasher, really did die in the Season 2 finale. The Mayfair Witches Instagram account announced the start of filming on November 4 by posting a photo from the set.
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Huisman will have a major role in Season 3. He plays a character named Michael, according to Variety. Michael is described as “a carpenter who built an inn that he runs himself. Though he hides a dark secret, his carefully constructed life begins to crumble when he falls in love with Rowan Mayfair.” Fans of Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches books are hopeful that this could be Michael Curry, one of the main characters from the book trilogy, who has yet to appear in the AMC adaptation.
Huisman is known for his roles in The Haunting of Hill House and Game of Thrones, along with Rebel Moon, The Flight Attendant, and more. He recently appeared in The Abandons, a new Western on Netflix with Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey.
Brandt could be playing a character from the book as well. The Life in Pieces alum will be a series regular in Season 3 as Katherine. While AMC didn’t note if she is a Mayfair witch, there is a Katherine Mayfair in the books. She’s the deceased sister of Julien Mayfair, who was played by Silence of the Lambs star Ted Levine in Season 2. In the books, Katherine tried to reject the role of being the Mayfair witch who could command Lasher. Julien became the eighth Mayfair to command the spirit as a result. Brandt’s casting marks a Breaking Bad reunion with executive producer Johnson and Thomas Schnauz, the latter of whom joins Esta Spalding as co-showrunner this season.
Scanlen will play Jessica, and Frain will play a character called Solomon. Character details will be shared at a later time. There aren’t any characters with these names in the novels. The closest name in that universe is Jesse Reeves, a Talamasca agent who first appears in The Queen of the Damned in The Vampire Chronicles series. Jesse is another big book character who hasn’t come up in this TV universe yet.
Scanlen is known for Sharp Objects, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Cado Lake, and more. Frain is known for The Tudors, True Blood, True Detective, and Gotham, among other titles.
Levine played the very dead Julien Mayfair in Season 2, who was able to take over son Cortland’s body and return to the land of the living. He was still in control of Cortland’s body when the season ended, and Rowan had secretly drunk Lasher’s blood, heightening her powers like never before. Julien (as Cortland) also drank the blood, giving him similar strengths. They could face off in the third season.
Is Mayfair Witches Season 3 still filming?
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Production began in Vancouver in November 2025 and wrapped in February 2026.
Season 1 was filmed and set in New Orleans, with Season 2 filming in New Orleans and Ireland. Ireland served as the production location for the show’s scenes set in Scotland.
When does Mayfair Witches Season 3 premiere?
Mayfair Witches Season 3 is expected to come out in 2026. An exact premiere date will be announced at a later time.
Mayfair Witches was the second series in AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe. The third series, Talamasca: The Secret Order, aired from October 26 through November 23, 2025, and is still awaiting renewal. The Vampire Lestat (Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire, the franchise’s flagship) premieres on June 7, 2026.
The first two seasons of Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches are streaming on Netflix. All available episodes of the three Immortal Universe shows can be streamed on AMC+.
What happens in Mayfair Witches Season 3?
Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Schnauz (a writer and executive producer for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) joins as co-showrunner with Spalding on Season 3. Johnson, Spalding, and Schnauz serve as executive producers alongside Michelle Ashford and Tom Williams. Ashford created the series for television and wrote the pilot.
Season 2 came to a close on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on AMC and AMC+. The network has said that Mayfair Witches remains among the top series on AMC+ in both viewership and acquisition.
“The drama and complexities of the Mayfair family continue to be an intriguing and enchanting source of story, and expanding that story against the backdrop of Salem, a historical haven of witchcraft, is an exciting next chapter for this series and our larger Anne Rice Immortal Universe,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, in an April 9 statement. “Tom Schnauz has a storied history with AMC, and we’re elated to have him join the talented Esta Spalding and our Mayfair cast for a season that will explore a larger world of witchery and Mayfair family secrets as we continue to build out this dynamic franchise.”
“I am thrilled to welcome Tom Schnauz to our team for the third season of Mayfair Witches,” said Spalding. “A contemporary twist on the Salem story, it promises to be our most delicious yet.”
Schnauz said, “I’m incredibly excited to reunite with both AMC and Mark Johnson on Mayfair Witches. The work I’ve done so far with Esta Spalding on Season 3 has been fantastic and fun, and we’re hoping that translates to the screen for fans and new viewers of the show.”
The Season 3 plans don’t mention if the series will be adapting the third book of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, Taltos. Much of Taltos‘ plot takes place in New Orleans, London, and New York. The series seems to be taking a big turn with the Salem setting.
What happened in Mayfair Witches Season 2?
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Mayfair Witches Season 2 continued the journey of Rowan Mayfair (Daddario) after she had unwittingly given birth to the demon Lasher at the end of Season 1. She was determined to understand what he had become — human or monster? — and to use him to fulfill her purpose as a healer, but when tragedy struck, she had to put aside her own desires and fight to protect her family.
The New Orleans Mayfairs took the fight to Scotland in the penultimate episode of the season. Their mission: get Lasher back, or at least get a vial of his blood, so that Rowan’s powers could be restored (her abilities weakened when he wasn’t physically near) and she could free sister Jojo (Jen Richards) and cousin Daphne (Olive Abercrombie) from the thrall spell in which she accidentally trapped them. Their travels — as well as Ciprien’s (Chirisa) trip to Talamasca Motherhouse in Amsterdam — revealed more depths of Julien and Albrecht’s (Dennis Boutsikaris) plot to control Lasher.
Episode 7 (of eight) revealed that Lasher is a Taltos born of Anne Boleyn and a Scottish man, just as described in the books. In Rice’s supernatural world, a Taltos is a superhuman result of crossbreeding between two human witches who possess an extra chromosome. He was reunited with his wife from his human years, Emaleth, and their supernatural children were born in the finale. The Scottish Mayfairs, under Julien’s direction, attempted to kill the children to empower the whole family. They were saved by Rowan, Moira (Jirrels), Lark (Ben Feldman), and Sip (Chirisa) and his Talamasca crew. The agents fled through a portal with the children, their destination unknown.
Rowan, meanwhile, returned to New Orleans, helped wipe Lark’s (her ex) memory of the whole magical ordeal with his consent, and freed her sister and cousin from the thrall. Cortland/Julien spied on the Mayfair house ominously to close out the season.
Daddario said there wasn’t much talk about a potential Season 3 while filming Season 2, which was a change from the first season.
“During Season 1, there were some discussions about Season 2. The writers were reading the book and sort of saying, ‘How do we adapt this? What is this? What does this look like on screen?’ And we did not have those conversations during Season 2 about Season 3,” Daddario told The Hollywood Reporter. “But I think there’s a whole rich world to draw from. As we know, Anne Rice has given us so much, so I would be curious where the writers would take it.”
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