From Season 4 Cast and Characters Explained
Keeping track of everyone in From is not easy. The MGM+ horror series has a big ensemble, characters with past lives, a villain who wears other people’s faces and a town that keeps adding new arrivals. By the end of Season 4, some favourites are gone, some have changed beyond recognition and one has been hiding in plain sight all season.
Spoiler warning: this guide covers major events from all ten episodes of From Season 4, including the finale, “If a Tree Falls in the Forest…”.
If you are new to the show, From follows a group of strangers trapped in a town in the woods that nobody can leave. Every road leads back in, smiling creatures come out at night, and carved stone talismans keep them out of homes. The residents are split between the Township, led by Sheriff Boyd Stevens, and Colony House, a communal home led by Donna Raines.
Season 4 aired from April to June 2026 and pushed the story towards its endgame. The Man in Yellow arrived in disguise, Jade and Tabitha went after the bones of the town’s sacrificed children, Fatima transformed into one of the creatures and the Bottle Tree was pulled out of the ground. MGM+ has confirmed that Season 5 will be the last.
This guide explains the 19 main and key recurring characters of Season 4 and the actors who play them. It is not a ranking. The characters appear in a fixed order: the core leads first, then the Man in Yellow and his disguise, then the Kavanaugh and Matthews families, the Township and Colony House regulars and finally Clara, the season’s most surprising accomplice.
For each character, we explain who they are and where they stand at the start of Season 4, then what happens to them this season, what the actor brings to the role and which episodes matter most for their story. The entries are kept short so you can use this as a quick reference while you rewatch or catch up.
Cast details are based on official and reference sources, and we only say what the show has confirmed on screen. If a character’s fate is unclear at the end of Season 4, we say so rather than guess.
Whether you need a refresher before the final season, want to remember who knew what about Sophia, or just want to put names to faces, this guide should help.
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Boyd Stevens – Harold Perrineau
Boyd Stevens is the town’s self-appointed sheriff and de facto mayor, a retired US Army veteran who has spent four seasons trying to keep everyone alive. He enters Season 4 already battered by Tian-Chen’s death and his worsening Parkinson’s. In the premiere, he and Kenny find Smiley alive again at the caves, and Boyd loses hope completely.
Kristi and Ellis push him back towards leadership. He resists Jade’s plan to reach the children’s bones, sees a vision of Father Khatri warning that some people may have to die, and finally gives the go-ahead. In the finale, he leads the uprooting of the Bottle Tree and goes into the tunnels to save Jade and Tabitha.
Harold Perrineau, known to many viewers from Lost and Oz, gives Boyd a weary, wounded authority that anchors the whole show.
Key episodes: 1, 8 and 10.
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Tabitha Matthews – Catalina Sandino Moreno
Tabitha is Jim’s wife and the mother of Julie and Ethan. At the end of Season 3, she learned she is the reincarnation of Miranda Kavanaugh, Victor’s mother. Season 4 begins with Jim’s death, and in Episode 2, Julie and Ethan find his body with the message “knowledge comes at a cost”.
Grief turns into purpose. Tabitha shares her past life with Ethan and Julie, faces the Man in Yellow in the woods in Episode 8 and convinces Boyd that she and Jade must be the ones to recover the bones. In the finale, she tries to climb out of the chamber with the bones, but the sabotaged ladder breaks, and she and Jade are trapped in the tunnels until Boyd, Ellis and Fatima reach them.
Catalina Sandino Moreno, an Oscar nominee for Maria Full of Grace, plays Tabitha’s anger and resolve with real intensity.
Key episodes: 2, 8, 9 and 10.
Jade Herrera – David Alpay
Jade arrived as a wealthy, arrogant software developer and has become one of the town’s most determined problem-solvers. Season 3 revealed he is the reincarnation of Christopher, a ventriloquist who lived in the town during Victor’s childhood.
In Season 4, Jade digs deeper into his past. In Episode 5, hallucinogenic mushrooms show him earlier versions of himself being killed by residents, and he finds the route to the chamber where the children were sacrificed. He builds the plan to recover the bones and, in the finale, offers to stay behind so Tabitha can escape. He survives, but admits he does not know what to do with the remains.
David Alpay gives Jade a nervy, funny energy that makes his heroics feel earned.
Key episodes: 5, 6, 9 and 10.
Donna Raines – Elizabeth Saunders
Donna is the tough, practical leader of Colony House, the communal home that has its own rules separate from the Township. She has spent years protecting her people, often clashing with Boyd before becoming one of his most trusted allies.
Season 4 tests her body as well as her nerve. She joins the foraging party that discovers the straw dolls in the lake, and Tabitha saves her when the dolls attack. In Episode 6, after the group discovers that Roger’s body has taken on the dolls’ features, Donna suffers a heart attack. Boyd saves her life, and Kristi stabilises her.
Elizabeth Saunders brings a dry humour and steady strength to Donna that make her one of the show’s most reliable presences.
Key episodes: 4, 5, 6 and 8.
Fatima Hassan – Pegah Ghafoori
Fatima is a Colony House resident and Ellis’s wife. In Season 3, her mysterious pregnancy ended with the birth of a reborn Smiley. Season 4 follows the aftermath. She feels a connection to the creatures, controls Smiley long enough to save Kenny in Episode 7, develops markings like theirs and has a pulse so low she should be dead.
In Episode 9, Clara gives her the Man in Yellow’s blood. In the finale, she has a vision of Smiley coming to the clinic, then goes into the tunnels with Boyd and Ellis. She tells them “Remember who I was,” and transforms into one of the creatures to hold the others back.
Pegah Ghafoori told ScreenRant she sees the finale as a “villain origin story”. Her performance is one of the season’s highlights.
Key episodes: 4, 7, 8 and 10.
Ellis Stevens – Corteon Moore
Ellis is Boyd’s son and Fatima’s husband, and he lives at Colony House. Their relationship was once badly strained, but by Season 4, he is one of the people Boyd relies on most.
This season, Ellis helps Kristi pull Boyd out of his despair after Smiley’s return, joins the foraging party in the doll episode and stands by Fatima as she reveals what is happening to her. In the finale, he goes into the tunnels with his father and his wife, and watches Fatima transform to save them.
Corteon Moore plays Ellis with warmth and quiet desperation, and his scenes with Pegah Ghafoori give the season much of its heart.
Key episodes: 1, 5, 8 and 10.
Sophia – Julia Doyle
Sophia arrives in the Season 4 premiere, apparently a sheltered and vulnerable pastor’s daughter. Viewers quickly learn she is the Man in Yellow in disguise. She befriends residents, tells Julie that things started going downhill when her family arrived, and in Episode 6 secretly adds her blood to Henry’s drink.
In Episode 9, she reveals her identity to Clara and reminds her of their deal. When Elgin finds an old photograph of her, she has Clara lock the diner. In the finale, she tells Elgin she can only take the forms of people who died in the town, kills him and collects the town’s talismans.
Julia Doyle switches between sweetness and menace brilliantly, making Sophia one of the season’s most talked-about characters.
Key episodes: 1, 6, 9 and 10.
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The Man in Yellow – Douglas E. Hughes
The Man in Yellow is a powerful, shapeshifting entity who first made contact with Jim over the radio at the end of Season 1. At the end of Season 3, he appeared in person in a yellow suit and killed Jim. Douglas E. Hughes plays him in his own form as a recurring character in Season 4.
In the premiere, he warns Julie that she cannot change the past. In Episode 8, he lures Tabitha into the woods, admits he killed Jim and warns her that acting on the theory about the bones could unleash unimaginable suffering. For much of the season, he operates as Sophia.
Jeff Pinkner told Collider that the Man in Yellow “wants our characters to suffer”. Hughes makes him smiling, curious and deeply unsettling.
Key episodes: 1, 8 and 10.
Victor Kavanaugh – Scott McCord
Victor has been trapped in the town since he was a child. Season 3 reunited him with his father, Henry, after 40 years. In Season 4, he finally talks about the Man in Yellow, telling Henry that he arrived like everyone else and lived among the residents.
Victor guides Tabitha and Ethan to the Man in Yellow’s car, where he finds a sack of teeth and fears history is repeating itself. In Episode 9, the Boy in White warns him against cutting down the Bottle Tree. When Victor confronts Boyd, he is handcuffed and taken away. In the finale, he survives Henry’s attempt on his life.
Scott McCord’s gentle, haunted performance makes Victor one of the show’s most beloved characters.
Key episodes: 4, 7, 9 and 10.
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Henry Kavanaugh – Robert Joy
Henry is Victor’s father, who lived alone in Camden, Maine, for 40 years after his wife and children disappeared. He arrived in the town in Season 3 alongside Tabitha. In Season 4, he learns the truth about Miranda’s death and breaks down.
Sophia befriends him, and in Episode 6, she secretly adds her blood to his liquor. Soon Henry has vivid visions of waking up in a hospital after a coma, and he begins to believe the town is something his mind created. He comes to think that killing Victor will let him return to reality. In the finale, he raises a gun at his son, but Victor subdues him when Ethan appears.
Robert Joy makes Henry’s spiral painful and believable.
Key episodes: 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10.
Julie Matthews – Hannah Cheramy
Julie is Jim and Tabitha’s teenage daughter, and in Season 3, she discovered she can “story-walk” into earlier moments in the town’s history. Season 4 opens with her witnessing Jim’s death and the Man in Yellow telling her she cannot change the past.
With Randall’s help, Julie experiments with her ability, trying to travel back and “bookmark” moments so she can return to them. In Episode 4, she sees Victor as a child and the Man in Yellow, before Randall pulls her back. She also remains sceptical of her mother’s past lives, believing the town is deceiving them.
Hannah Cheramy brings a spiky intelligence to Julie, and her scenes with A.J. Simmons’ Randall are a quiet pleasure.
Key episodes: 1, 2 and 4.
Ethan Matthews – Simon Webster
Ethan is Julie’s younger brother and Jim and Tabitha’s son. In Season 4, he loses his father and struggles with grief. In Episode 2, he sees a vision of Jim telling him that the Lake of Tears from his drawings is real, and in Episode 3, he sets out to find it with Victor and Jade.
In Episode 8, Ethan asks Victor to help him prepare in case he ends up alone, as Victor once did. In the finale, his arrival gives Victor the chance to disarm Henry, which may have saved Victor’s life.
Simon Webster plays Ethan as a sensitive, observant boy who notices things the adults miss.
Key episodes: 2, 3, 8 and 10.
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Kenny Liu – Ricky He
Kenny is Boyd’s deputy and right-hand man, and the son of Tian-Chen, who died in Season 3. In the Season 4 premiere, he goes looking for Boyd at the caves, and they both come face to face with the reborn Smiley.
Kenny joins Boyd in planning to use a sharpened totem against the creatures. In Episode 7, he tests it, but it has no effect, and he is cornered by Smiley until Fatima takes control. In Episode 9, Boyd sends him to take Victor to the sheriff’s station after Victor objects to the Bottle Tree plan.
Ricky He gives Kenny a decency and loyalty that make him the town’s moral compass.
Key episodes: 1, 4, 7 and 9.
Kristi Miller – Chloe Van Landschoot
Kristi is the Township’s doctor, a former medical student who was separated from her fiancée when she became trapped. Her fiancée, Marielle, later arrived in the town. In Season 4, Kristi works to keep everyone alive and helps Ellis rebuild Boyd’s confidence.
She stabilises Donna after her heart attack and, in Episode 8, discovers that Fatima’s pulse is so low she should be clinically dead. In the finale, Kristi finds Marielle fatally wounded after Smiley’s attack, and Marielle dies in her arms.
Chloe Van Landschoot’s performance in the finale is devastating.
Key episodes: 1, 6, 8 and 10.
Sara Myers – Avery Konrad
Sara works at the Township’s diner and has long heard voices that command her to kill other residents. Over the seasons, she has gone from feared outsider to a reluctant source of insight.
In Season 4, Sophia tells her that keeping the belongings of the dead is a way to remember them. In Episode 4, Sophia tests her by giving her a task through the voices, which Sara eventually obeys, suggesting the Man in Yellow has been behind those voices.
Avery Konrad plays Sara with a fragile intensity that keeps the audience guessing whether to fear or pity her.
Key episodes: 2 and 4.
Elgin Williams – Nathan D. Simmons
Elgin arrived on the bus in Season 2 after a prophetic dream about the town. He was first contacted by the Boy in White, then manipulated by the Kimono Woman into trapping Fatima in Season 3.
In Season 4, he tries to make amends. In Episode 7, he kills the reanimated Roger with a totem. In Episode 9, he finds an old photograph of Sophia, and she has Clara lock him in the diner. In the finale, Sophia reveals the truth, he refuses to make a deal, and she kills him.
Nathan D. Simmons told Collider about learning his character’s fate. His final scenes give Elgin a moving redemption.
Key episodes: 7, 9 and 10.
Marielle Sinclair – Kaelen Ohm
Marielle is a paediatric nurse who arrived on the bus and is Kristi’s fiancée. In Season 4, she works alongside Kristi in the clinic and, in Episode 5, relives her terrifying experience in the dungeon, fearing that something ancient will never release them, even after death.
In the finale, she is with Fatima in the clinic when Smiley enters after a talisman falls. He fatally wounds her, and she dies in Kristi’s arms.
Kaelen Ohm spoke to Collider about filming Marielle’s final scenes with Kristi, which are among the season’s most heartbreaking moments.
Key episodes: 5 and 10.
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Dani Acosta – Samantha Brown
Dani Acosta is a police officer who was brought to the town in Season 3 after picking up Tabitha and Henry in the outside world. After accidentally shooting a resident on her first night, she has struggled to trust Boyd or accept the town’s rules.
In Season 4 Episode 2, Boyd arrests her for stealing the ambulance, which she thought she could use to escape. In Episode 3, he gives her a new task: building a crime scene from the belongings of the dead, in case she discovers anything that might help people escape.
Samantha Brown gives Acosta a cop’s scepticism that makes her a useful outsider’s eye.
Key episodes: 2 and 3.
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Clara – Katerina Bakolias
Clara is a superstitious Colony House resident. In Season 4, she turns out to be helping Sophia. In Episode 9, Sophia reveals her true identity to Clara and reminds her of a deal they made.
Clara gives Fatima the Man in Yellow’s blood to drink, locks the diner with Elgin inside and, in the finale, disposes of his body. She then helps Sophia collect the town’s talismans, reluctantly but without refusing.
Katerina Bakolias plays Clara with a nervous fear that makes her more pitiable than villainous. Her choices will matter in the final season.
Key episodes: 9 and 10.
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Conclusion: Who Is Left Standing for the Final Season?
Season 4 reshaped the cast of From. Jim, Elgin and Marielle are gone. Fatima has become one of the creatures. Henry has tried to kill his own son. And Sophia, the newcomer who seemed so harmless, turned out to be the Man in Yellow all along.
Yet the core of the show is still standing. Boyd, Tabitha and Jade survived the finale and recovered the children’s bones. Victor, Ethan, Julie, Kenny, Kristi and Donna are still fighting. Clara’s loyalties are uncertain, and Sara’s connection to the Man in Yellow raises questions of its own.
If you are planning a rewatch, focus on the characters whose stories carry into the final season: Fatima, Clara, Henry and Victor, and of course Sophia. Their arcs are the most likely to shape how the series ends.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is in the cast of From Season 4?
The main cast includes Harold Perrineau as Boyd Stevens, Catalina Sandino Moreno as Tabitha Matthews, David Alpay as Jade Herrera, Elizabeth Saunders as Donna Raines, Pegah Ghafoori as Fatima Hassan, Corteon Moore as Ellis Stevens, Scott McCord as Victor, Hannah Cheramy as Julie and Simon Webster as Ethan. Julia Doyle joins as Sophia, and Douglas E. Hughes plays the Man in Yellow.
Who plays Sophia in From?
Sophia is played by Julia Doyle. Sophia arrives in the Season 4 premiere and is revealed to be the Man in Yellow in disguise.
Who plays the Man in Yellow in From?
The Man in Yellow is played by Douglas E. Hughes, who appeared as a guest in Season 3 and recurs in Season 4.
Who dies in From Season 4?
Jim Matthews dies at the start of the season, after the Man in Yellow attacks him at the end of Season 3. In the premiere, Sophia smothers the pastor who arrived with her, and Roger is killed by the straw dolls in Episode 5. In the finale, Marielle is killed by Smiley and Elgin is killed by Sophia. Fatima transforms into one of the creatures, but the show has not confirmed her fate.
Who plays Fatima in From?
Fatima Hassan is played by Pegah Ghafoori. In Season 4, Fatima develops a connection to the creatures and transforms into one of them in the finale.
Who is Clara in From?
Clara, played by Katerina Bakolias, is a superstitious Colony House resident. In Season 4, she is revealed to have a deal with Sophia, gives Fatima the Man in Yellow’s blood, disposes of Elgin’s body and helps steal the talismans.
Who plays Henry in From?
Henry Kavanaugh, Victor’s father, is played by Robert Joy. He joined the show in Season 3.
Is Dani Acosta in From Season 4?
Yes. Samantha Brown returns as Dani Acosta, the police officer who arrived in Season 3. In Season 4, Boyd arrests her for stealing the ambulance and then assigns her to build a crime scene from the belongings of the dead.
Is From Season 5 the final season?
Yes. MGM+ has renewed From for a fifth and final season. The creators have described the Season 4 ending as setting up the endgame.
Where can I watch From Season 4?
In the US, From streams on MGM+, which can also be added as a channel through Prime Video. In the UK, Season 4 is available on Sky and NOW, according to Sky’s official From page. Availability can change, so check your service.
More Places to Find Great Movies and TV Shows
- IMDb – full cast, crew and episode listings for From.
- Collider – interviews, including Kaelen Ohm and Nathan D. Simmons on Marielle and Elgin’s fates.
- ScreenRant – cast interviews, including Pegah Ghafoori on Fatima.
- TV Insider – cast interviews, including Scott McCord and Robert Joy on Victor and Henry.
- Radio Times – UK-focused coverage, including a Season 4 ending explainer.
- Rotten Tomatoes – critic and audience scores for each season of From.
- Deadline – industry news, including the Season 5 renewal.
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