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So remember when Kita and I cast the Dresden Files and we both went, "That was fun, but we are never doing that again"? And then I read this comment, kicked myself hard for not even thinking about casting people of color for all of the Dresden Files, and spent the next two weeks feverishly picking and choosing which actor would work for which character. I think the only exception is Arnold Vosloo, and I hope that his inclusion can be forgiven. He just worked too perfectly for me to not have him in here.

Kita was, as usual, amazing, and plotted the whole thing out with me, helped me figure out who would work for Harry, and also let me send her multiple e-mails and comments at random hours of the day. So the Leanansidhe is for her. Also, much thanks to spazzer_mctwich for her brilliant casting choice for Rashid. I went with it because after that, I couldn't see how anyone else would have worked.

Just an FYI: I kept the original casting for the canon characters of color and for the non-human characters, like Mouse and Mister. It's partly because I'm lazy, but mostly because I still loved the choices we made for them. So if you see the some of the same people and graphics, that's why.

As usual, these are just my choices. I know that it differs for everyone, so I don't expect anyone to agree with all my choices, and I would love to hear who you picked for your version of the characters.

The Dresden Files




Main Characters:

Harry Dresden (Takeshi Kaneshiro)


Karrin Murphy (Grace Park)


Bob (Lenny Henry)


Thomas Raith (Rain)


Recurring Characters (major & minor):

The Blue Beetle


Mister


Mouse


"Gentleman" Johnny Marcone (Will Yun Lee)


Hendricks (Quinton Jackson)


Sigrun Gard (Gabrielle Union)


The Archive/Ivy (Madison de la Garza)


Jared Kincaid, Hellhound (Saïd Taghmaoui)


Susan Rodriguez (Jessica Alba)


Elaine Mallory (Dichen Lachman)


Justine (Freida Pinto)


Henry Rawlins (Chi McBride)


Waldo Butters (Masi Oka)


Mac McAnally (Jon Huertas)


Father Anthony Forthill (Daniel Dae Kim)


Mortimer Lindquist (Keith David)


Georgia & Billy Borden (Kristin Kreuk & Kelvin Yu)


Uriel, The Watchman (Lennie James)


Vince Graver (John Cho)


Martin (Wentworth Miller)


Malcolm & Margaret LeFay Dresden (Sanada Hiroyuki & Michelle Yeoh)


Justin DuMorne (Tony Leung)


Vampire Courts

Red Court
Bianca St. Claire (Rosario Dawson)


Don Paolo Ortega (Benjamin Bratt)


Doña Arianna Ortega (Roselyn Sanchez)


White Court
Lara Raith (Maggie Q)


Lord Raith (Ken Watanabe)


Black Court
Mavra (Patricia Velasquez)


Knights of the Cross

Shiro Yoshimo (Tadanobu Asano)


Sanya Antonovich (Aldis Hodge)


The Carpenters

Michael Carpenter (Idris Elba)


Charity Carpenter (Archie Panjabi)


Molly Carpenter (Jurnee Smollett)


Daniel Carpenter (Dev Patel)


Faerie Courts

Wyldfae
Toot-Toot (Diego Luna)


The Erl King (Jason Momoa)


Mother Winter & Mother Summer (Angela Bassett & Indira Varma)


Summer
Lady Aurora & Queen Titania (Naomie Harris & Tamara Taylor)


Lady Lily & Knight Fix (Zhang Ziyi & Donald Glover)


Winter
Queen Mab (Thandie Newton)


The Leanansidhe (Gina Torres)


Lady Maeve & Knight Lloyd Slate (Navi Rawat & Tyrese Gibson)


Knights of the Blackened Denarius

Nicodemus Archleone (Chiwetel Ejiofor)


Lasciel/Sheila (Michaela Conlin & Jamie Chung)


Quintus Cassius (Sendhil Ramamurthy)


Polonius Lartessa, Thorned Namshiel, Rosanna Marcella, & Deidre (Salma Hayek, Arnold Vosloo, Megan Good, & Sofia Vergara)


The Senior Council

The Merlin (Chow Yun Fat)


Captain Anastasia Luccio [pre-body switch] (Rita Moreno), [post-body switch] (Zoe Saldana)


Donald Morgan (Tahmoh Penikett)


Carlos Ramirez (Kevin Alejandro)


Ebenezer McCoy (Sonny Chiba)


Rashid the Gatekeeper (Morgan Freeman)


Joseph Listens-to-Wind (Graham Greene)


"Steed" Chandler (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje)


Ancient Mai, Martha Liberty, & Samuel Peabody (Lucy Liu, Sophie Okonedo, & Erick Avari)


So that happened. I think I need tea now.