Zimbabwean actor Tongayi Chirisa stars in new series Mayfair Witches. The onscreen adaptation of Anne Rice’s supernatural trilogy “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” is finally making its debut. The series, fully titled Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is set to start streaming on AMC+ on the 8th of January and it can also be watched live on BBC America, IFC, Sundance and WE TV.
According to AMC, Mayfair Witches will be the centrepiece of an expanding Anne Rice universe on AMC+ and AMC. The Fantasy/Horror series has been highly anticipated by fans.
Tongayi Chirisa stars alongside Alexandra Daddario, Jack Huston, Harry Hamlin and Annabeth Gish. The series follows a neurosurgeon (Rowan) who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. She must contend with a sinister presence that haunted her family for generations.
The series kicks off with Rowan, heading to New Orleans from San-Francisco (where she is based) to uncover the truth about her past after she begins to have strange experiences and deadly powers she doesn’t know how to control.
Tongayi Chirisa plays a character called Ciprien Grieve, who is an investigator from a secret order sent to keep tabs on Rowan and the Mayfairs. Ciprien doesn’t feature in Mayfair Witches novels but is an original character created for the AMC series. The character is said to be a combination of more than one character from the book series, including Aaron Lightner and Michael Curry.
Chirisa continues to enjoy a stellar run of roles on tv shows and films. In 2022, he starred on the series Women of the Movement, he was alongside fellow Zimbabwean Charmaine Bingwa on the Netflix acquired production Trees of Peace, he was also on Netflix’s The Anthrax Attacks and the film Next Exit.
