‘The Audacity’: Tom Hollander Joins Season 2 in Recurring Role
Tom Hollander has joined the cast of The Audacity Season 2, AMC’s Silicon Valley drama. Filming on the eight-episode second season is currently underway in Vancouver, Canada.
The Audacity Season 1 finale revealed an unseen mystery character in a scene with JoAnne (Sarah Goldberg). As previously announced, that character will be officially introduced in Season 2, played by Pluribus and Younger star Miriam Shor, Usman Ally has been cast as a series regular, and Jess McLeod has been upped to series regular.
Hollander plays “Big Tim,” the powerful tech billionaire and CEO of Cupertino, whose carefully curated public persona masks his insatiable appetite for control and revenge.
Executive producer, writer, and showrunner Jonathan Glatzer said, “We are absurdly fortunate to have Tom Hollander joining our already terrific cast. He makes everything he’s in smarter, funnier and more dangerous, often at the same time. We’re enormously thrilled.”
Shor plays a heavily recurring role as Randy Flemming, a shrewd and unintimidated FBI Agent who enjoys the hunt like a cat relishes playing with a mouse. McLeod reprises their role as Harper, the brilliant, pink-haired Chief Technology Officer of the newly formed, data-mining startup P.I.N.A.T.A. Ally plays Byron Zandani, a senior Silicon Valley lawyer, who is constantly trying to put out proverbial fires and to navigate ethically ambiguous decisions.
Here’s what to expect from The Audacity, the first season of which is available to stream on AMC+ and Netflix.
Who is in The Audacity cast?
Miriam Shor; Billy Magnussen (Robby Klein/Getty Images for IMDb; Liane Hentscher/AMC)
The Audacity stars Billy Magnussen, Sarah Goldberg, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch, Simon Helberg, Rob Corddry, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein, Everett Blunck, Thailey Roberge, and Ava Marie Telek, along with Hollander.
Goldberg’s therapist with a bad insider trading habit got a call from an FBI agent in the Season 1 finale. That is Shor’s character in Season 2.
Is The Audacity streaming?
All available episodes of The Audacity are available to stream on AMC+ and on Netflix. The series premiere is also available to watch for free on AMC+’s YouTube channel.
What is The Audacity about?
Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs, and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.
Jonathan Glatzer created the series. Glatzer is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer from Better Call Saul, Succession, and Bad Sisters.
Is The Audacity renewed for Season 3?
Liane Hentscher/AMC
As of the time of publication, The Audacity has not been renewed for Season 3. AMC renewed The Audacity for Season 2 on Monday, March 9. The series premiered on Sunday, April 12, at 9/8c on AMC. There are eight episodes in Season 1, and The Audacity Season 2 will have eight episodes as well.
“Jonathan is one of the smartest, most talented, insightful, and human showrunners we’ve ever worked with,” said Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer of AMC Networks and President of AMC Studios, in the renewal announcement. “He has created a series that is smart, witty, and nuanced, with dynamic characters, and something to say about our world, and this particular world that has such a huge impact on our culture, our economy, and the very lives we are all living. Season 1 is fantastic, Season 2 can’t come soon enough. Thank you to Jonathan, Gina, and the incredible cast and crew of The Audacity, for bringing this story and these characters to life.”
“From the start, The Audacity exists because Kristin Dolan, Dan McDermott, and AMC Networks decided that ‘playing it safe’ is vastly overrated,” Glatzer said. “They’ve enabled me and our fearless cast to dive headfirst into the deep recesses of some beautifully flawed characters, all set against the backdrop of Silicon Valley, which only happens to have the power to shape how we work, argue, date, doomscroll, etc. And now, with this second season pick-up, AMC Networks has stood by their conviction with this wholly original satire. As The Audacity‘s creator, I could not be more grateful, but also as a fan of original and slightly dangerous stories, I am ecstatic.”
When does The Audacity Season 2 come out?
Filming begins in June 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. Season 2 will debut in 2027.
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