American Horror Story/Season 4

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American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX Network horror anthology series American Horror Story. The season premiered on October 15th, 2014 and ended on January 21st, 2015, spanning a total of thirteen episodes. The premise of the season revolves around a carnival sideshow that is set up in the town of Jupiter, Florida in the early 1950s. Though most of the storyline utilizes “real world” physics and probabilities, there are also supernatural elements at play in the form of ghosts.

This storyline saw the return of several notable actors from previous seasons such as Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Emma Roberts, Denis O’Hare, and Jessica Lange. This storyline also served as the final season of the show to feature Jessica Lange as a mainstay character, though she would return in season eight, “Apocalypse”, reprising the role of her season one character, Constance Langdon. New faces that appear in “Freak Show” include Finn Wittrock as an apprentice serial killer named Dandy Mott, John Carroll Lynch as the gruesome Twisty the Clown, Erika Ervin as Amazon Eve, Mat Fraser as Paul the Illustrated Seal, and Rose Siggins as Legless Suzi.

Episodes

Cast

Principal cast

Guest stars

Crew

Production

Directors

Writers

Notes

  • American Horror Story: Freak Show redirects to this page.
  • The title of this season, “Freak Show”, was announced by series creator Ryan Murphy via twitter on March 24th, 2014. He said that the series would take place in the 1950s in Jupiter, Florida. [3]
  • It was executive producer Douglas Petrie who first broke the news that the season would use a carnival as its primary setting. [4]
  • The official main cast for season four of American Horror Story was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday evening, July 26th, 2014. [5]
  • Ryan Murphy revealed that AHS veteran actress Sarah Paulson would be coming back around for a fourth time, although now she would be working “double” time as she takes on the role of conjoined twins Bette and Dot. The first official photo still from the set revealed a back-shot of the twins wearing a hospital gown staring out of a window. [6]
  • Jessica Lange was one of the first cast members slated to return for season four. It was revealed by series showrunners that she would once again be taking on a leading role, this time playing a German expatriate, who is the manager and recruiter of one of the last traveling freak shows in the country. [7]
  • It was announced on the final night of PaleyFest that former The Shield and Vegas actor Michael Chiklis would be joining the cast of American Horror Story. Chiklis’ character, Dell Toledo, is the former husband of Kathy Bates’ character, Ethel Darling and the father of Evan Peters’ character, Jimmy Darling. [8]
  • Actress Erika Ervin, who plays a fictionalized version of herself under the name “Amazon Eve”, is also known for her work as a body double for the lumbering reanimate, Shelley Godfrey from the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove.
  • The character of Pepper is the first character in American Horror Story to appear in multiple seasons. Actress Naomi Grossman played the role of Pepper in season two, “Asylum”, which took place during the late 1960s.
  • Actress Jyoti Amge, who plays Ma Petite, is the shortest woman in the world, standing at only 2’0″ tall and weighing 11 pounds. This is her first work in television.
  • Actor Ben Woolf, who played the character of Meep on “Freak Show” passed away on February 23rd, 2015 at the age of 34. He died from a stroke brought on as a result of a head injury he received when he was clipped by the side mirror of a passing SUV. [9]
  • Actress Rose Siggins was born with a rare genetic disorder called Sacral Agenesis. She was born with deformed legs, which were amputated when she was only two-years-old. [10]
  • Actress Rose Siggins, who played the role of Legless Suzi, passed away from complications from kidney failure in Denver, Colorado. She was 43-years-old. [11]

The Freaks

Some of the actors portraying characters in the season had actual birth defects, while others did not. This section is intended to separate fact from fiction.

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