The 10 - episode drama stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant and complicated founder and chief programmer of Westworld; Ed Harris as the Man in Black, characterized as» the distillation of pure villainy into one man»; Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy, a provincial and kind rancher's daughter who begins to discover her
entire existence is an elaborately constructed lie; James Marsden as Teddy Flood, a new arrival to a small
frontier town; Thandie Newton as the razor - sharp madam Maeve Millay; Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe, the brilliant and quixotic head of the park's programming division; and Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale, a mysterious and savvy provocateur.