Sandman. Netflix has announced that Kirby Howell-Baptiste (
Killing Eve) will play Death in the series. Howell-Baptiste is not the only addition; Mason Alexander Park, Donna Preston, Jenna Coleman, Niamh Walsh, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Kyo Ra, Stephen Fry, Razane Jammal, Sandra James Young and Patton Oswalt have joined the series as well.
Death is one of the most beloved characters in Gaiman’s comic book. Along with her younger brother, the primary character Dream, Death is one of the Endless anthropomorphic personifications of universal concepts. The family consists of, by order of age: Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire & Despair, Destruction, and Delirium. Park will be playing Desire, while Preston will play Despair.
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