‘Almost Human’ Turns 10: Where Are the Short-Lived Sci-Fi Series’ Stars Now?
Almost Human is just one of many TV shows following cop duos patrolling the streets — but the only one in which the setting is the year 2048 and one of the cops is an android.
In the Fox series — which aired 13 episodes, starting on November 17, 2013 — Karl Urban plays a human detective and Michael Ealy portrays his partner, an android with a surprising capacity for emotion.
Creator J.H. Wyman told IGN the show delves into the tradeoff between technology and humanity. “I just thought, I would really love to tell a story and find a metaphor for the perils of technology and this great utopia we’ve been promised — and the flip side of that,” he said. “Everybody thinks about the great things, but they don’t think about the criminals. And what they’re going to have…”
Ten years after Almost Human’s debut, here’s what the cast is up to…
Karl Urban
Since 2019, Urban has starred as vigilante Billy Butcher in the Prime Video series The Boys. Meanwhile, Star Trek fans are hoping that he and his costars in the reboot series — launched in 2009 by Almost Human EP J.J. Abrams — will get a fourth movie.
Michael Ealy (Dorian)
Ealy recently starred in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window and the first season of Reasonable Doubt. He also popped up in recent episodes of Bel-Air, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and The Afterparty.
Minka Kelly (Detective Valerie Stahl)
Mackenzie Crook (Rudy Lom)
Crook created, wrote, directed, and starred in the BBC series Detectorists, which aired between 2014 and 2022 and won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Scripted Comedy. He has another TV show in the pipeline, the adventure series The Wayfinders, in which he’ll play the character Goran.
Michael Irby (Detective Richard Paul)
Irby recently wrapped two long-running roles: He starred as Bolivian mobster Cristobal Sifuentes on HBO’s Barry and motorcycle club president Obispo “Bishop” Losa on FX’s Mayans M.C. The actor also recurred as UN Admiral Delgado on Prime Video’s The Expanse.
Lili Taylor (Sandra Maldonado)
Taylor had multi-episode arcs in the TV series Chambers and Perry Mason recently, and she stars as Cecilia Abbott on the Prime Video sci-fi show Outer Range. Coming up, she’ll play Mary Todd Lincoln in the Apple TV+ limited series Manhunt.
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I liked this show, maybe it was simply ahead of its time.
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I loved it. It seems I'm always behind on content. I'd try and help bring it back if I knew all the fans could do it at the same time. So we could catch the attention of someone who could do something.
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