Alan Wake 2: Every Major Character And Their Voice Actor

While there are plenty of gameplay elements you might want to prepare for before journeying into the Dark Place, you may also want to find out who's voicing the compelling characters within these terrifying worlds. And you'll find that the cast of Alan Wake 2 comes with some familiar Remedy faces and many other notable stars.

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While we know our main protagonists are Alan Wake, Saga Anderson, and Alex Casey, there are plenty more characters returning from the first game and new ones created for Alan Wake 2. Here are just some of the talented actors behind the excellent performances.

Updated on October 26, 2024, by Dennis Moiseyev: Alan Wake 2 is already filled with so many amazing performances from its core cast, and the ones in The Lake House DLC prove just as phenomenal. With The Lake House DLC being the final part of the story, it was time to update this list with all the actors portraying the equally compelling new characters you'll be encountering in the nightmarish FBC expansion. See where you might know them all from below!

1 Saga Anderson

Melanie Liburd

Saga Anderson is Alan Wake 2's new protagonist and playable character, whose story intertwines with Alan's as she faces many paranormal and supernatural challenges of her own outside the Dark Place. Melanie Liburd plays this FBI agent caught between all the horror and mystery that also seems to be affecting her family.

While you may not have seen Liburd in any previous games, as this is the first character she's portraying in that realm, she's been in plenty of familiar television shows. You may recognize her as Stansfield professor Carrie Milgram from the Power Universe spin-off Book 2: Ghost, Zoe Baker from This is Us, or Nyx Harper from Dark Matter. She's also starred in Netflix's Gypsy, HBO Max's The Idol, and Bad Boys: Ride or Die.

2 Alan Wake, Scratch, Dr. Casper Darling, And The Bad Boy

Matthew Porretta

The titular character and sole protagonist of the original 2010 game, Alan Wake, as well as his evil doppelganger, Scratch, are reprised by voice actor Matthew Porretta. His face model and live-action counterpart is Ilkka Villi, but the voice is always Porretta, including his new werewolf double, The Bad Boy, in Night Springs Episode 1. And since Alan Wake 2 shares many Easter eggs and connections with Control (Remedy's previous game), he's also reprising the role of Dr. Casper Darling, who has a much more expanded role in New Game Plus.

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Outside of Remedy projects, Matthew Porretta has voiced characters Marco Graziani and Mooch in Bethesda's Starfield and has additional voice credits in Homefront, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Grand Theft Auto 5. In TV and film, you may have seen him in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The New Adventures of Robin Hood, or Beverly Hills: 90210.

3 Alex Casey

James McCaffrey

Alex Casey is supposedly Saga Anderson's coffee-loving FBI partner, but he's also the fictional detective character Alan made much of his writing career off of. His character model may match the game's creative director, Sam Lake, but his distinctive voice is done by the late James McCaffrey, who previously voiced hard-boiled detective Max Payne for Remedy's Max Payne series.

In other games within the Remedy world, McCaffrey was also Thomas Zane in the first Alan Wake and former Federal Bureau of Control director Zachariah Trench in Control. McCaffrey has also been in various shows such as Suits, Revenge, Rescue Me, and Jessica Jones. Another notable video game role of his is protagonist Edward Carnby in 2008's Alone in the Dark.

4 Agent Kiran Estevez

Janina Gavankar

Actress Janina Gavankar is contributing her talents more and more to video games. In 2023 alone, she voiced Kiran Estevez in Alan Wake 2, Freddie in Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Shroud in Redfall, and Tanta Sila in Forspoken. And you may recall she was also Star Wars protagonist Iden Versio in Battlefront 2. Her character is a Federal Bureau of Control agent who helps Saga and Alan in their paranatural fight and is the main protagonist of The Lake House DLC.

Aside from video games, Gavankar has portrayed just as many characters in numerous television shows, like Ren Bhullar in Big Sky, Alison Namazi in The Morning Show, Meredith Bose in The Mysteries of Laura, Diana Thomas in Sleepy Hollow, and Luna Garza in True Blood. She also starred in the films Blindspotting and basketball drama The Way Back with Ben Affleck.

5 Sheriff Tim Breaker And The Actor/Himself

Shawn Ashmore

Another Remedy Entertainment reunion happening in Alan Wake 2 is with the sheriff of Bright Falls, Tim Breaker, who mysteriously disappears into the Dark Place. He also goes on a multiversal adventure as a playable character in Night Springs. He's played by Shawn Ashmore, the time-manipulating protagonist Jack Joyce of 2016's Quantum Break, which gets plenty of Easter eggs and neat callbacks in Alan Wake 2.

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Shawn Ashmore has been in some huge Hollywood projects. You might remember him as Bobby, or Iceman, from the X-Men movies, the supe known as Lamplighter from The Boys, or his character Wesley Evers from the ABC show The Rookie. Ashmore is also no stranger to horror, playing Conrad in The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan, Timmy in Sons of the Forest, and starring in the films The Ruins, Aftermath, and Mother's Day.

6 Warlin Door

David Harewood

Mr. Door is a character first referenced in Control, and he makes his debut in Alan Wake 2 in live-action during Alan's segments in the Dark Place, as well as narrates the Night Springs DLC episodes. He still remains pretty vague and mysterious, but there are hints toward a major reveal about his character throughout the game. You'll also get to see him sing and dance during the musical number!

Portraying this new character in the Remedy Connected Universe is David Harewood. If you've seen Supergirl and all the other CW Arrowverse shows, you'll know him as none other than Martian Manhunter, or J'onn J'onzz, in disguise as D. E.O. Director Hank Henshaw.

He's also starred in the television series Homeland as David Estes, The Night Manager as Joel Steadman, The Acolyte as Senator Rayencourt, and Sherwood as Denis Bottomley. Harewood also previously voiced characters in games like Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Killzone: Shadow Fall, and Battlefield 3.

7 Alice Wake

Christina Cole

Alice Wake joins Alan once more in Alan Wake 2, but in a different way than you think. She appears in the Dark Place only through live-action video recordings she makes for her husband, and her character has an excellent twist by the end. Actress Christina Cole plays Alice in the sequel.

While she may appear as her live-action self in Alan Wake 2, Christina Cole is no stranger to voicing video game characters. She's the voice behind many NPCs in Vampyr, such as Carol, Loretta, Sabrina, and Thelma, Sarah Hawkins in 2018's Call of Cthulhu, and Anabella Rosfield in Final Fantasy 16. And in the TV show Suits, she's Dr. Paula Agard.

8 Tor And Odin Anderson

Stuart Milligan And Harry Ditson

The Norse mythology references are plenty in Alan Wake 2. Contributing to them is also the return of sibling rocker duo Tor and Odin Anderson, who have a major connection to a certain someone in the game. They're formerly of Old Gods of Asgard, with the brothers now retired at the Valhalla Nursing Home, but you still get to see them play their band's greatest hits, even in live-action.

Their live-action counterparts are a band called Poets of the Fall, but in the gameplay, Tor Anderson is now voiced by Stuart Milligan, and Odin Anderson is now voiced by Harry Ditson.

Stuart Milligan is recognizable for the roles of President Richard Nixon in Doctor Who, Bruno Ramos in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Max Samson in the soap opera Crossroads, and President Grover Cleveland in Evil West.

Harry Ditson is best known for starring in the role of Du Quois in the 1984 spy parody film Top Secret! and Dr. Hirsch in the 1982 sci-fi horror film The Sender. While recently, he's had more minor roles in movies like Angel Has Fallen and Woman in Gold, he voiced Walker in the 2019 Audible version of the Alien 3 screenplay by William Gibson.

9 Thomas Zane

Ilkka Villi

Filmmaker Thomas Zane might've been the Diver in the first game, voiced by James McCaffrey, but Alan Wake 2 sees Zane become Alan's twin with different hair and fashion (continuing from Control's DLC). Like Christina Cole and David Harewood, Tom Zane appears only in live-action and is performed by Finnish actor Ilkka Villi.

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Aside from being the face of Alan Wake and now also the voice and face of Thomas Zane in the Remedy Connected Universe, Ilkka Villi is best known for his supporting role as Kari Sorjonen's partner Niko Uusitalo in Netflix's Bordertown, Ilkka Jaamala in Invisible Heroes, and Mr. White in Imaginaerum.

10 Ahti

Martti Suosalo

Ahti from Control returns to his extradimensional custodial duties as a janitor first encountered in the Dark Place by Alan Wake inside Mr. Door's Studio and then appears throughout Saga's chapters. And reprising this BAFTA-winning silly enigmatic character who says phrases like "The more cooks, the worse soup" is Martti Suosalo.

Like his co-stars Ilkka Villi and Peter Franzén, Martti Suosalo is a Finnish actor who's only been in international Finnish movies and TV shows. If you enjoy Nordic Noir, perhaps you've seen Suosalo in the Netflix Finnish detective series Deadwind, where he played Poteri. He also got to play Bilbo Baggins in the 1993 Finnish miniseries adaptation of The Lord of the Rings called Hobitit.