The Insidious: Out of the Further cast is led by Amelia Eve as Gemma Hall, with Island Austin as her daughter Maya Hall, Brandon Perea as Nick Mendoza and Lin Shaye back as Elise Rainier. Maisie Richardson-Sellers plays Clare, Sam Spruell plays Cyrus Lam and Laura Gordon plays Ingrid Lilith Hall, Gemma's mother, in a credited ensemble of 47 performers. Insidious: Out of the Further (2026), directed by Jacob Chase, opened in US theaters on August 21, 2026, with a screenplay by Chase from a story he wrote with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. What sets this cast apart is how little of it comes from earlier chapters, because the story moves to a new family, the Halls, and no Lambert appears in the credits. Lin Shaye, now in her sixth Insidious film, is the clear link, and Joseph Bishara, the series composer, is credited on screen again as the Lipstick Demon.
| # | Actor | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia Eve | Gemma Hall |
| 2 | Island Austin | Maya Hall |
| 3 | Brandon Perea | Nick Mendoza |
| 4 | Lin Shaye | Elise Rainier |
| 5 | Maisie Richardson-Sellers | Clare |
| 6 | Sam Spruell | Cyrus Lam |
| 7 | Joseph Lopez | Lester |
| 8 | Robina Beard | Edna |
| 9 | Susan Gray | Patsy |
| 10 | Laura Gordon | Ingrid Lilith Hall |
| 11 | Charli Penton | Young Gemma |
| 12 | Zahra Newman | Liz |
| 13 | Andy McPhee | Mr. Sullivan |
| 14 | Julie Nihill | Mrs. Sullivan |
| 15 | Ben Keller | Young Lester |
| 16 | Emma Campbell | Young Edna |
| 17 | Keith Brockett | Dr. Benji |
| 18 | Ethan Smith | Nervous Patient |
| 19 | Joseph Bishara | Lipstick Demon |
| 20 | David Kambouris | Bride in Black |
| 21 | Jasper Cleary | Keyface |
| 22 | Christopher Stenning | Wheezing Man |
| 23 | Bruce Barnes | The Patient |
| 24 | Peter Noble | Dentist Matteo |
Billing order from the film's credits (TMDB). Actors with a Cinvibe page and characters with a character page are linked.
Also in the cast: Katerina Daskalakis (Pigtails), Taylor Bogrand (Doll Girl), Frances De Grandi (Doll Girl Mother), George Thompson (Doll Girl Father), Emilia Stojkovski (Doll Girl Sister), Tegan Schiller (Grinning Demon), Luca Faelis (Silver Dome Demon), David Morgan (Dead Patient), Jonathan Oldham (Dead Dentist), Bill Evans (Rat Man), Ermanno Giurina (Tighty Whitey), Pete Knight (Plate Licker), Tina Currah (Pliers), Janine Bova (Dancing Woman), Camille Gautum (Bird Lady), Kaitlin West (Paper Ripper), Maia Abbas (Saloon Girl), Emma J. Hawkins (Creepy Doll), Jules Mcevoy (Tea Party), Ben Sofowora (Prisoner Entity), Gene Efron (Crying Brother), Max Sheedy (Dancing Boy), Benjamin O'Reilly (Tanktop).
Amelia Eve leads as Gemma Hall, a single mother and dental hygienist whose astral projections carry her into the Further, where she learns she is a courier able to move objects between worlds. Variety Australia named her first among the cast when filming began in Melbourne in September 2025, citing The Haunting of Bly Manor as her reference credit.
Island Austin plays Maya Hall, Gemma's daughter, and takes second billing. The Stage 6 Films synopsis builds the story around a young mother raising her daughter in the house where she grew up, which puts Maya close to the danger. Variety Australia's cast list for the Melbourne shoot identified Austin through I Can Only Imagine 2.
Brandon Perea plays Nick Mendoza and is billed third. He is one of only three actors named on the Stage 6 Films page for the movie, alongside Amelia Eve and Lin Shaye, which marks him as one of the leads. Variety Australia's production report identified him through A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.
Lin Shaye returns as Elise Rainier, the medium she has played in every Insidious film since 2011, according to her TMDB credits. Film Music Reporter also confirmed her return when the score was announced in April 2026. TMDB gives her birth date as October 12, 1943, so she was 81 when the Melbourne shoot was reported underway.
Maisie Richardson-Sellers plays Clare, fifth in the billing, and was among the seven actors Variety Australia named when the Melbourne shoot was announced, with Nine Perfect Strangers given as her reference credit. Clare is credited by first name only, as are several supporting characters around Gemma, including Lester, Edna, Patsy and Liz.
Sam Spruell plays Cyrus Lam, sixth in the billing. Variety Australia included him in the main cast when cameras rolled in Melbourne and identified him through Fargo. Cyrus Lam is one of the few characters given a full name in the credits, alongside the Halls, Nick Mendoza and Elise Rainier.
Joseph Lopez plays Lester, seventh in the billing. The credits split the character across two ages, with Ben Keller listed as Young Lester. The story opens in Pittsburgh in 1999 before jumping twenty years ahead, so several characters are played by a younger and an older performer, and Lester is one of them.
Robina Beard plays Edna, eighth in the billing. Edna is credited at two ages, with Emma Campbell playing Young Edna, so two actors share the role. Pairings like this one let the film carry a character across the twenty year jump between its 1999 prologue and its present day story.
Susan Gray plays Patsy, ninth in the billing. Patsy is credited by first name only and has no younger counterpart listed, so Gray carries the role on her own. She is part of a production shot around Melbourne, where Camberwell, Essendon and Kensington stood in for New England, according to Variety Australia.
Laura Gordon plays Ingrid Lilith Hall, Gemma's mother, whose death in 1999, seen by the young Gemma, opens the story. Variety Australia singled Gordon out as a Victorian actor when it reported the start of filming, citing her role in Late Night With the Devil. She is the only one of the seven cast members named in that report who is described as local.
Charli Penton plays Young Gemma, the child version of Amelia Eve's character. Penton appears in the 1999 prologue in Pittsburgh, where Gemma sees her mother Ingrid die, the event that shapes the adult Gemma twenty years later. She is billed eleventh, ahead of every performer credited as a demon.
Zahra Newman plays Liz, twelfth in the billing. Liz is credited by first name only, with no younger counterpart listed. Newman completes the top twelve of a credited ensemble of 47, a list that runs from the Hall family down to roles named by description, such as Keyface, Rat Man and the Bride in Black.
The core of the Insidious: Out of the Further cast was in place by the time cameras rolled in Melbourne in September 2025. Variety Australia's report on the start of production named seven actors (Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea, Lin Shaye, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Sam Spruell, Island Austin and Laura Gordon), with Jacob Chase directing for Blumhouse and Sony Pictures' Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. Jason Blum and Oren Peli produced alongside James Wan, who directed the first two films, and Leigh Whannell, who directed Chapter 3 and is credited with the characters.
The Australian shoot also shaped the wider ensemble. Camberwell, Essendon and Kensington stood in for New England, the production used Stage 6 at Docklands Studios Melbourne, and VicScreen estimated it would create more than 513 jobs for Victorians. Below the top billing, the credits run to 47 performers, and many of them play roles named by description rather than by name, from Plate Licker to the Silver Dome Demon.
So, if you want the plot, crew and release details, the page on insidious out of the further covers them, while this one keeps to who plays whom.
Lin Shaye and Joseph Bishara are the clearest links to earlier films, and the principal characters around them are new. Shaye plays Elise Rainier for a sixth time, having appeared in every entry from Insidious (2011), directed by James Wan, to Insidious: The Red Door (2023), directed by Patrick Wilson, according to her TMDB credits. Bishara, who scored the first five films and returned to score this one, is credited again as the Lipstick Demon, and TMDB lists him as the Lipstick-Face Demon in the 2011 original.
The Lambert family does not feature, and none of the 47 credited roles belongs to it. Instead, the film follows the Halls across two time periods, with Amelia Eve and Charli Penton sharing Gemma. If you are catching up first, the guide to the insidious movies sets out every film and where this sixth entry sits.
| Director | Jacob Chase |
|---|---|
| Writers | Leigh Whannell, Jacob Chase, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick |
| Producers | Jason Blum, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Oren Peli |
| Music | Joseph Bishara |
| Cinematography | Dave Garbett |
Amelia Eve plays Gemma Hall, the lead of Insidious: Out of the Further, and Charli Penton plays the character as a child in the 1999 prologue. Gemma is a single mother working as a dental hygienist whose astral projections carry her into the Further, where she learns she is a courier who can move objects between that realm and the real world.
Yes, Lin Shaye returns as Elise Rainier in Insidious: Out of the Further and is fourth in the billing. TMDB credits her as Elise in all six Insidious films, from the 2011 original to this one, and Film Music Reporter confirmed her return when Joseph Bishara's score was announced in April 2026. She was 81 when filming was reported underway in Melbourne in September 2025.
The threat in Insidious: Out of the Further comes from the demons of the Further, which, according to the Stage 6 Films synopsis, turn the real world into their playground once they learn of Gemma's power. The credits list many of them, including Joseph Bishara as the Lipstick Demon, Jasper Cleary as Keyface, David Kambouris as the Bride in Black and Tegan Schiller as the Grinning Demon.
No, most of the Insidious: Out of the Further cast is new, and the story centers on the Hall family rather than the Lamberts. Lin Shaye returns as Elise Rainier, and Joseph Bishara is credited again as the Lipstick Demon, but none of the 47 credited roles is a member of the Lambert family. Amelia Eve, Island Austin and Brandon Perea lead in their place.
Lin Shaye was 81 when filming on Insidious: Out of the Further was reported underway in Melbourne in late September 2025. TMDB gives her birth date as October 12, 1943, and Variety Australia reported on September 29, 2025 that cameras were rolling, so she turned 82 during or after the shoot. She was 67 when Insidious opened in April 2011.
Laura Gordon plays Ingrid Lilith Hall, Gemma's mother, in Insidious: Out of the Further. Ingrid's death in 1999, which the young Gemma sees, opens the film and sets the adult story in motion twenty years later. Variety Australia named Gordon, a Victorian actor, in the cast when production began in Melbourne, citing her role in Late Night With the Devil.
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