cast of characters

idiom

—sometimes used to refer to a group of people who have important roles in a book, story, or event

The cast of characters includes President Johnson and his top advisers during the Vietnam War.

Examples of cast of characters in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Settling for shots was one of the items Musick was most critical of with her usual cast of characters. —Ethan Westerman, Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026

Glatzer’s upcoming eight-episode series, The Audacity, is a darkly comic drama about ambition in the tech bubble, centered on a rich cast of characters led by Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen)—an audacious data-mining CEO who will stop at nothing to amass profit and power. —Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026

The ceremony is the most performance-like part of a wedding, and the cast of characters that walks down the aisle can set the tone for the proceedings to come. —Shelby Wax, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2026

Gene Hackman stars as a defiant former minister alongside a cast of characters including Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons and Stella Stevens. —Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025