Kate McKinnon has joined the cast of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” Season 3 as a recurring guest star.
She will play Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty. Per the official character description, Aphrodite “can alter her appearance depending on the beholder” and “must be sure that Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) respects the power and importance of love before she agrees to offer aid on his quest.”
McKinnon is best known for her work on “Saturday Night Live,” serving as a cast member from 2012 to 2022. She earned 10 Emmy nominations during her tenure, winning twice. Her other prominent credits include the films “Bombshell” (2019), “Yesterday” (2019), “The Spy Who Dumped Me” (2018) and the 2016 “Ghostbusters” reboot. More recently, McKinnon played Weird Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” (2023) and Carole Baskin in Peacock’s 2022 limited series “Joe vs. Carole.” Up next, she will be seen in Andrew Stanton’s Hulu sci-fi film “In the Blink of an Eye.” She is repped by CAA, Artists Firsts and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on Rick Riordan’s middle-grade book series of the same name. Riordan created the TV series with Jonathan E. Steinberg, who serves as showrunner alongside Dan Shotz. Executive producers include Steinberg and Shotz; Riordan and Rebecca Riordan; Craig Silverstein; Bert Salke; the Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg; James Bobin; Jim Rowe; Albert Kim; Jason Ensler; and Sarah Watson. Along with Scobell, the main cast includes Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn and Daniel Diemer.
The series debuted on Disney+ in 2023, and Season 2 premieres on Dec. 10. Season 3, based on the book “The Titan’s Curse,” is currently in production in Vancouver.