‘Manhunt’: See the Cast vs. the Historical Figures in Lincoln’s Assassination (PHOTOS)
Preview
As Manhunt’s tagline states, Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is just the beginning in this Apple TV+ series.
Created by Monica Beletsky (Parenthood) and based on the best-selling book of the same name by James L. Swanson, Manhunt “is a conspiracy thriller about one of the best known but least understood crimes in history,” Apple TV+ teased. Emmy winner Tobias Menzies stars as Edwin Stanton, one of Lincoln’s cabinet members, who is tasked with finding John Wilkes Booth following the president’s murder.
Luckily for history buffs, photos of some key players in that chapter of U.S. history are in the public domain, so we can see how several Manhunt cast members compare to their real-life counterparts. See the actors and the actual people side by side in the photo gallery below.
Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton
Menzies (Outlander) portrays Stanton, who served as Lincoln’s Secretary of War and organized the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.
Anthony Boyle as John Wilkes Booth
Boyle (Masters of the Air) plays Booth, the stage actor who fatally shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Hamish Linklater as Abraham Lincoln
Linklater (Midnight Mass) takes on the part of Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.
Lili Taylor as Mary Todd Lincoln
Taylor (Outer Range) portrays Lincoln’s wife, who was watching a performance of the play Our American Cousin with him when he was shot.
Will Harrison as David Herold
Harrison (Daisy Jones & the Six) has the role of Herold, a pharmacist’s assistant who was convicted and executed for being involved in the assassination plot against Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of State William Seward.
Matt Walsh as Samuel Mudd
Walsh (Veep) plays Mudd, a physician who was imprisoned for conspiracy after the assassination — and ultimately pardoned by President Andrew Johnson.
Patton Oswalt as Lafayette Baker
Oswalt (The King of Queens) plays Baker, chief of the U.S. Federal Detective Police, who helped investigate the assassination.
Damian O’Hare as Thomas Eckert
O’Hare (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) plays Eckert, a telegraph expert who later became the U.S. Assistant Secretary of War.
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