A wealth of guest stars have been lined up for the second season of Showtime and Sky Atlantic’s Victorian melodrama, Penny Dreadful.

Two-time Tony Award winner and Emmy nominee Patti LuPone will play a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa’s (Eva Green) past.

Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge signs on as Bartholomew Rusk, an intense Scotland Yard investigator on the hunt to discover who is responsible for the terrible murders that have been plaguing London.

Sarah Greene will play Hecate, Poole’s powerful daughter and Jonny Beauchamp will portray a young man with a singular past.

Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, Danny Sapani and Harry Treadaway are all returning to the series. Promoted to series regulars Helen McCrory returns as Evelyn Poole (a.k.a. Madame Kali), the seductive spiritualist who will pose a unique threat to the protagonists this season, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle.