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American Horror Story

"What to suspect when you're expecting."

Rating8.1/10

First Air2011

Seasons12

Episodes132

Votes5,959

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

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First Aired

October 5, 2011

Last Aired

April 24, 2024

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Scripted

Official Website

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Production Companies

Ryan Murphy Television

Brad Falchuk Teley-vision

20th Century Fox Television

20th Television

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Episodes

When the Harmon family relocates to a stately mansion in Los Angeles, disturbing secrets start enveloping each of their lives. As they slowly learn about the mysterious and deadly history of their new house, psychiatrist Ben, Vivien and their teenage daughter Violet find themselves surrounded by all manner of menacing spirits, living and dead.

Cast

Evan Peters

Kit Walker, Tate Langdon, Jimmy Darling, Kyle Spencer, James Patrick March, Kai Anderson, Mr. Gallant/ Jeff Pfister / Tate Langdon / James Patrick March, Rory Manahan, Austin Sommers

Sarah Paulson

Cordelia Goode / Wilhemina Venable / Billie Dean Howard, Lana Winters, Bette Tattler / Dot Tattler, Sally McKenna / Billie Dean Howard, Ally Mayfair-Richards / Susan Atkins, Tuberculosis Karen / Mamie Eisenhower, Audrey Tindall / Lana Winters, Billie Dean Howard

Denis O'Hare

Stanley, Spalding, Larry Harvey, Liz Taylor, William Van Henderson, Henry, Dr. Andrew Hill, Holden Vaughn

Lily Rabe

Misty Day, Sister Mary Eunice McKee, Doris Gardner / Amelia Earhart, Shelby Miller, Nora Montgomery, Lavinia Richter, Aileen Wuornos

Kathy Bates

Ethel Darling, Delphine LaLaurie, Iris, Agnes Mary Winstead, Miriam Mead / Delphine LaLaurie

Frances Conroy

Myrtle Snow, Gloria Mott, Moira O'Hara, Belle Noir / Sarah Cunningham, Angel of Death, Bebe Babbitt, Mama Polk

Emma Roberts

Madison Montgomery, Maggie Esmerelda, Anna Victoria Alcott, Brooke Thompson, Serena Belinda

Jessica Lange

Constance Langdon, Elsa Mars, Fiona Goode, Sister Jude Martin

Leslie Grossman

Ursrula Kahn / Calico, Barbara Read, Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, Margaret Booth, Meadow Wilton, Ashleigh, Patricia Krenwinkel, Meadow Wilton (archive footage)