‘Murderbot’ Season 2 Has a Stacked Guest Star Lineup

Apple TV‘s Murderbot has lined up a star-studded roster of actors for its second season.

The sci-fi series starring Alexander Skarsgård revealed a list of 25 recurring actors and guest stars for the series, which is currently filming. The list includes Emmy winners and nominees, stars of a couple other Apple series and comedians.

They are, in alphabetical order: Ella Jay Basco, Etienne Beydon, Nicholas Braun, Steve Buscemi, Bridget Everett, Jason George, Topher Grace, Brendan Hunt, Divian Ladwa, Jaedynn Latter, Marc Menchaca, Griffin Newman, Katy O’Brian, Britne Oldford, Patton Oswalt, Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Martha Plimpton, Kali Reis, Meredith Salenger, Michael Sheen, Maddy Strauss, Wanda Sykes, Tramell Tillman, Blair Underwood and Damian Young.

The host of new actors will join a returning cast that, along with Skarsgård, features series regulars Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones and Tamara Podemski and recurring actors Clark Gregg, John Cho, DeWanda Wise and Jack McBrayer.

Apple TV ordered a second season of Murderbot in July 2025, just before its critically well-received first season concluded. The series based on Martha Wells’ books stars Skarsgård as the title character, a self-aware security robot who has to hide its free will while carrying out its duties protecting humans — even if all Murderbot really wants to do is watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.

CBS Studios produces the series. Creators Chris and Paul Weitz write and direct the show. They also executive produce with Andrew Miano, Dan Balgoyen and Britta Rowings of the Weitzes’ Depth of Field, David S. Goyer and Keith Levine for Phantom Four, and Skarsgård. Wells is a consulting producer.