Following the closure of Moordale Secondary, the students move to a new school – Cavendish Sixth Form College. We’ll be getting a new setting in Season 4, along with some new faces. So, who will be in Sex Education Season 4? Here’s what we know about the Sex Education cast and characters in Season 4!
Sex Education Cast: Who Stars in the Netflix Series?
Get to know the Sex Education cast:
Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn
Asa Butterfield stars as Otis Milburn, a socially awkward teenager who becomes Moordale Secondary’s student sex therapist. In Season 4, Otis is nervous about setting up his new clinic at Cavendish Sixth Form College. He’s also in a long-distance relationship with Maeve.
Asa Butterfield began his acting career at a very young age and first gained recognition in his leading role in the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. He then starred in the films Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, Hugo, Ender’s Game, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and The Space Between Us.
Asa Butterfield also starred in the romantic comedy films Then Came You, alongside Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams, and Time Freak, alongside another Game of Thrones actress, Sophie Turner.
Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn
Gillian Anderson stars as Jean Milburn, Otis’ mother who’s a well-known sex therapist. She frequently has affairs with male suitors but does not maintain romantic relationships.
She later gets pregnant and has a complicated birth. In Season 4, Jean faces the challenge of raising a baby as a single mother.
Gillian Anderson is best known for her role as Dana Scully in The X-Files series. She also starred in the film The House of Mirth, the crime drama series The Fall, Netflix’s historical drama series The Crown, and Hulu’s “anti-historical” drama The Great.
Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong
Ncuti Gatwa stars as Eric Effiong, Otis’ openly gay best friend who comes from a religious Ghanaian-Nigerian family. He’s been very supportive of Otis, and in Season 4, as they move to a new school, he prays they won’t be losers again.
Ncuti Gatwa has starred in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and will star as the Fifteenth Doctor in the popular British sci-fi series, Doctor Who. He is the first Black actor to lead the series.
Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley
Emma Mackey plays Maeve Wiley, a smart but troubled teenager. She befriends Otis and together they run a sex therapy clinic. Maeve becomes Otis’ love interest, and they have a long-distance relationship in Season 4 as she decides to study in the US.
Emma Mackey plays Physicist Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. She also starred in the films Eiffel and Death on the Nile.
Connor Swindells as Adam Groff
Connor Swindells plays Adam Groff, a bully and the headmaster’s son. He later becomes Eric’s love interest, but they break up at the end of Season 3.
Connor Swindells is another Sex Education star who appeared in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. He also starred in the films Emma and Barbarians and the series SAS: Rogue Heroes and Vigil.
Mimi Keene as Ruby Matthews
Mimi Keene stars as Ruby Matthews, a popular mean girl and the leader of the “Untouchables”. She becomes Otis’ love interest in the third season of Sex Education, but Otis chooses Maeve in the finale. In the trailer for Season 4, Ruby tells Otis that she wants them to be friends.
Mimi Keene starred in the British soap opera EastEnders and the films Tolkien and After Everything. She also voiced Eurayle, Stheno, and Medusa in the 2013 video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate and its 2014 sequel Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.
Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs
Aimee Lou Wood plays Aimee Gibbs, Maeve’s best friend and a former member of the Untouchables. Aimee was sexually assaulted on a bus and is in the process of healing. Actress Aimee Lou Wood shared that her character will be dealing with a lot in Season 4:
"Aimee particularly - her best friend's in America, she doesn't have a boyfriend for the first time ever, she's at a brand new school where she doesn't have any mates."
Aimee Lou Wood has starred in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Living, and On the Edge.
Kedar Williams-Stirling as Jackson Marchetti
Kedar Williams-Stirling plays Jackson Marchetti, the head boy at Moordale Secondary, a swimming champion, and Maeve’s ex. He later gives up on swimming due to the pressure placed upon him.
He also develops feelings for Cal, a non-binary new student at Moordale, but Cal says they should just be friends. In Season 4, Jackson is still struggling to get over Cal.
Kedar Williams-Stirling has starred in Shank, Montana, and Wolf Blood.
Chinenye Ezeudu as Vivienne Odusanya
Chinenye Ezedu stars as Vivienne Odusanya, a girl who tutors Jackson and later becomes his best friend. In Season 4, “Viv is totally thrown by the college’s student-led, non-competitive approach.” Chinenye Ezedu has appeared in The School for Good and Evil and The Stranger.
Dua Saleh as Cal Bowman
Dua Saleh plays Cal Bowman, a non-binary student from Minneapolis. In Season 4, they start to develop feelings for Aisha, a popular student at Cavendish. Dua Saleh is a singer-songwriter whose EPs include Nūr, Rosetta, and Crossover.
George Robinson as Isaac Goodwin
George Robinson stars as Isaac Goodwin, a disabled boy, and Maeve’s former love interest. George Robinson has appeared in the British crime drama series Dalgliesh.
Alistair Petrie as Michael Groff
Alistair Petrie stars as Michael Gross, Moordale Secondary’s headmaster, and Adam’s father. He’s been a very strict father toward Adam, and his wife, Maureen, decides to get a divorce. After losing everything, Michael tries to fix his relationship with Adam.
Alistair Petrie has appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Bank Job, Rush, and The Duchess.
Samantha Spiro as Maureen Groff
Samantha Spiro stars as Maureen Groff, Adam’s mother and Michael’s ex-wife. She has appeared in Me Before You, Game of Thrones, From Hell, Cor, Blimey!, and London Spy.
Other cast members of Sex Education (from Seasons 1-3) include:
- Mikael Persbrandt as Jakob Nyman
- Tanya Reynolds as Lily Iglehart
- Patricia Allison as Ola Nyman
- Rakhee Thakrar as Emily Sands
- Simone Ashley as Olivia Hanan
- Chaneil Kular as Anwar Bakshi
- Jemima Kirke as Hope Haddon
- Anne-Marie Duff as Erin Wiley
Sex Education Cast: Who Are the New Characters in Season 4?
Here are the new characters in Sex Education Season 4:
Dan Levy as Thomas Molloy
Dan Levy joins the Sex Education cast as Thomas Molloy, a famous author, and Maeve’s teacher. Dan Levy is widely known for his role as David Rose in the sitcom Schitt's Creek, which he co-created with his father, Eugene Levy.
He also appeared in Happiest Season, Haunted Mansion, Modern Family, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and HBO’s The Idol.
Thaddea Graham as Sarah “O” Owen
Thaddea Graham joins the Sex Education cast as Sarah “O” Owen, a person who runs a sex therapy clinic at Cavendish. Thaddea Graham has appeared in Letter for the King, The Irregulars, Doctor Who: Flux, and Wreck.
Alexandra James as Aisha
Alexandra James joins the Sex Education cast as Aisha, a member of the Coven, which is a popular group at Cavendish. She has appeared in Backstage.
Anthony Lexa as Abbi
Anthony Lexa joins the Sex Education cast as Abbi, the leader of the Coven and the queen bee of Cavendish. Abbi is trans, confident, and generous.
Felix Lufti as Roman
Felix Lufti joins the Sex Education cast as Roman, a trans-masculine student who’s dating Abbi. Roman and Abbi are considered the ultimate power couple.
Lisa McGrillis as Joanna
Lisa McGrillis joins the Sex Education cast as Joanna, Jean’s younger sister. Lisa McGrillis has appeared in Last Night in Soho, Mum, Somewhere Boy, and Inspector George Gently.
Other new cast members of Sex Education include:
Bella Maclean, Reda Elazouar, and Imani Yahshua as students. Jodie Turner-Smith, Eshaan Akbar, and Marie Reuther have been cast in undisclosed roles.
You can watch the trailer for Sex Education Season 4 below:
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