Production for Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is underway. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve gotten cast announcement after cast announcement. Each one has excited us more for the upcoming second season of the popular true-crime anthology.
The final cast members for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story have been announced, which tells us we are getting closer and closer to having this installment on our TV screens. The final cast announced joins previously cast Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch, who play Lyle and Erik Menendez; Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny, who play the parents Jose and Kitty Menendez; Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne; Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson, and Leslie Grossman as Judalon Smyth.
See the latest cast members below:
Dr. Jerome Oziel
Dallas Roberts (Law & Order: SVU, Big Sky) will play Dr. Jerome Oziel. The self-protective and not entirely by the book therapist who Erik Menendez sees after the murder of his parents.
Detective Les Zoeller
Jason Butler Harner (Ozark) will play Detective Les Zoeller, the Beverly Hills PD Detective in charge of the Menendez murder case.
Carlos Baralt
Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace) will play Carlos Baralt, a professor and lawyer who is the uncle of the Menendez brothers. He is also the executor of the Menendez will.
Tim Rutten
Michael Gladis (Mad Men) will play Tim Rutten, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
Detective Tom Linehan
Drew Powell (Gotham) will play Detective Tom Linehan, who is Detective Les Zoeller’s partner at the Beverly Hills PD.
Craig Cignarelli
Charlie Hall (The Sex Lives of College Girls, Single Drunk Female) will play Erik’s former best friend, Craig Cignarelli.
Dr. William Vicary
Gil Ozeri (Big Mouth) will play Dr. William Vicary, a psychiatrist who admitted altering clinical notes during the Menendez brother’s murder trial.
Peter Hoffman
Jeff Perry (Scandal) will play Peter Hoffman, Jose Menendez’s business partner who believed that Lyle and Erik killed their parents for their money.
Laura Oziel
Tessa Auberjonois (How I Met Your Father) will play Laura Oziel, the wife of Dr. Jerome Oziel.
Perry Berman
Tanner Stine (Days of Our Lives) will play Perry Berman, the Menendez brother’s friend and former tennis coach, who was questioned about a phone conversation he had with Lyle shortly before the murder.
Brian Andersen
Larry Clarke (Contagion) will play Brian Andersen, Kitty’s brother and uncle to Lyle and Erik.
Jamie Pisarcik
Jade Pettyjohn (Big Sky, Little Fires Everywhere) will play Jamie Pisarcik, a former tennis pro who spent four years in an on-and-off relationship with Lyle. She testified that the elder Menendez brother tried to bribe her to testify falsely at his first murder trial.
Marta Cano
Marlene Forte (Knives Out, The Lincoln Lawyer, Griselda) will play Marta Cano sister of Jose Menendez and godmother to Erik Menendez. Cano testified for the defense of both brothers.
