Anna Daniels
Wes Bentley kept himself quite busy in the years post-Hunger Games, claiming roles big and small in both film and television. Though Yellowstone is the TV venture currently earning Bentley raves, he nabbed his first small-screen credit on Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Horror Story.
Like so many American Horror Story actors before him, Bentley has been called upon to play multiple roles on the series. The first came on the fourth season of AHS, subtitled Freak Show, which aired from 2014 to 2015. Bentley’s two-faced character Edward Mordrake was the very definition of “freak show,” with the demented character wreaking unholy havoc over three chilling episodes that season.
The following season of American Horror Story, subtitled Hotel, found Bentley returning to Murphy’s macabre world as a series regular. He portrayed LAPD Detective John Lowe, whose work on a murder investigation eventually leads him to the ill-fated corridors of the Hotel Cortez, the host to all manner of unhinged insanity.
Bentley’s third appearance on American Horror Story came a year later in the Roanoake storyline, and saw him getting a bit meta while portraying an actor named Dylan who’d been cast in a documentary about the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. Like that colony, AHS: Roanoake often feels like the “lost season” of the series — even if it remains one of the most vital.
Written by: Looper
