| Actor | Role | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | | Peggy Blomquist | Ambitious, delusional beautician. | | Jesse Plemons | Ed Blomquist | Peggy’s butcher husband. | | Patrick Wilson | State Trooper Lou Solverson | Young father and war veteran (Molly’s father). | | Ted Danson | Sheriff Hank Larsson | Lou’s father-in-law. | | Jean Smart | Floyd Gerhardt | Matriarch of the Gerhardt crime family. | | Jeffrey Donovan | Dodd Gerhardt | Floyd’s violent, hot-headed son. | | Bokeem Woodbine | Mike Milligan | Enigmatic, eloquent Kansas City hitman. | | Brad Garrett | Joe Bulo | Kansas City mafia boss. | | Zahn McClarnon | Hanzee Dent | Gerhardt family’s deadly adopted enforcer. | | Kieran Culkin | Rye Gerhardt | Youngest, incompetent Gerhardt son. | | Cristin Milioti | Betsy Solverson | Lou’s wife, battling cancer. | | Angus Sampson | Bear Gerhardt | Strong, quieter Gerhardt son. | | Ravil Isyanov | Yuri Gurka | Hanzee’s brutal associate. | Season 3 (2017) – St. Cloud and Eden Valley, Minnesota Time period: 2010. Central crime: A mistaken identity, a stolen stamp, and twin brothers.
| Actor | Role | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | | Lorne Malvo | Manipulative, psychopathic drifter and hitman. | | Martin Freeman | Lester Nygaard | Milquetoast insurance salesman turned accomplice. | | Allison Tolman | Deputy Molly Solverson | Sharp, persistent Bemidji police deputy. | | Colin Hanks | Officer Gus Grimly | Duluth police officer and single father. | | Bob Odenkirk | Chief Bill Oswalt | Complacent, easily overwhelmed police chief. | | Keith Carradine | Lou Solverson | Retired cop, Molly’s father (also appears in S2). | | Joey King | Greta Grimly | Gus’s young daughter. | | Kate Walsh | Gina Hess | Lester’s manipulative sister-in-law. | | Adam Goldberg | Mr. Numbers | Enforcer, part of a Fargo crime syndicate. | | Russell Harvard | Mr. Wrench | Deaf hitman, partner to Mr. Numbers. | | Oliver Platt | Stavros Milos | Supermarket kingpin. | | Glenn Howerton | Don Chumph | Corrupt college student. | Season 2 (2015) – Sioux Falls, South Dakota / Luverne, Minnesota Time period: 1979. Central crime: A gangland shootout and a botched hit. full cast of fargo
Central crime: Insurance fraud, murder, and a buried ransom. | | Ted Danson | Sheriff Hank Larsson
| Actor | Role | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | | Loy Cannon | Head of the Cannon crime family (Black gang). | | Jessie Buckley | Oraetta Mayflower | Corrupt, angel-of-death nurse. | | Jason Schwartzman | Josto Fadda | Ineffective, spoilt heir to the Fadda mafia. | | Ben Whishaw | Rabbi Milligan | Irish orphan raised by Faddas, protector of a Cannon son. | | Jack Huston | Odis Weff | Tortured, stuttering Kansas City detective. | | Jeremie Harris | Leon Bittle | Loy’s ambitious son. | | E’myri Crutchfield | Ethelrida Pearl Smutny | Smart, observant teenage girl who narrates. | | Glynn Turman | Doctor Senator | Loy’s wise, veteran advisor. | | Salvatore Esposito | Gaetano Fadda | Josto’s savage, unstable brother. | | Timothy Olyphant | Dick “Deafy” Wickware | Straight-laced U.S. Marshal. | | Andrew Bird | Thurman Smutny | Ethelrida’s father. | | Francesco Acquaroli | Donatello Fadda | Fadda family patriarch. | | Karen Aldridge | Zelmare Roulette | Ethelrida’s aunt, a fugitive. | Season 5 (2023) – North Dakota / Minnesota Time period: 2019. Central crime: A kidnapped woman with a violent past is hunted by her corrupt sheriff ex-husband. | | Bokeem Woodbine | Mike Milligan |
| Actor | Role | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | | Emmit Stussy / Ray Stussy | Twin brothers: wealthy parking-lot king (Emmit) and bitter parole officer (Ray). | | Carrie Coon | Gloria Burgle | Eden Valley police chief, former military. | | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Nikki Swango | Ray’s brilliant, cunning girlfriend and bridge champion. | | David Thewlis | V.M. Varga | Eerie, menacing, bulimic crime syndicate head. | | Shea Whigham | Chief Moe Dammick | Unfriendly police chief from another district. | | Michael Stuhlbarg | Sy Feltz | Emmit’s loyal, nervous business partner. | | Scoot McNairy | Maurice LeFay | Bumbling criminal. | | Andy Yu | Meemo | Varga’s silent, deadly enforcer. | | Mark Forward | Donny Mashman | Inept police deputy. | | Thomas Mann | Thaddeus “Thad” Mobley | Young writer in a flashback episode. | Season 4 (2020) – Kansas City, Missouri Time period: 1950. Central crime: A truce between two crime families sealed by a child exchange.