X-Men Full Cast List: Sadie Sink, Inde Navarrette And More

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 14: (L-R) Maya Boyd, Inde Navarrette, Samara Weaving, Christopher Abbott, Kit Connor, Jake Schreier and Sadie Sink astatine the Disney Entertainment Showcase astatine D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event connected August 14, 2026 successful Anaheim, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Disney)

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After months of secrecy and speculation, Marvel Studios revealed the afloat halfway formed of its upcoming X-Men reboot astatine D23, pinch Kevin Feige bringing the caller mutants onstage 1 by one. Directed by Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier, the movie releases May 2028. The Fox X-Men bid ran from 2000 to 2019 crossed thirteen films and featured Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry among its principals. This will beryllium the first X-Men movie produced nether the Marvel Studios banner since Disney acquired Fox successful 2019, and will get aft Avengers: Secret Wars successful December 2027.

Here is each confirmed formed personnel truthful far.

Sadie Sink arsenic Jean Grey

Sadie Sink’s casting was the slightest astonishing announcement of the day; Sink has already debuted arsenic Jean Grey successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day, wherever her characteristic is first introduced arsenic a telepath antagonist. Sink is champion known to world audiences arsenic Max Mayfield successful Stranger Things, different domiciled that required her carrying emotionally devastating themes nether pressure.

Jean Grey is among the X-Men’s astir powerful characters, an Omega-level telepath and telekinetic whose communicative is tied to the Dark Phoenix arc. She becomes the 3rd character to play big Jean Grey successful unrecorded action, pinch erstwhile iterations including Famke Janssen and Sophie Turner.

Kit Connor arsenic Scott Summers/Cyclops

Kit Connor was confirmed up of D23. Connor is champion known internationally arsenic Nick Nelson successful Heartstopper, a domiciled he reprised successful the 2026 movie continuation Heartstopper: Forever. He also appeared successful A24’s Warfare and voiced a domiciled successful DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot.

Connor and Sink stock a theatre background, and person some played Romeo and Juliet respectively successful different Broadway and West End productions.

Scott Summers is the X-Men’s section leader, a tactician whose power issues widen from his optic blasts to each different facet of his personality, and whose narration pinch Jean Grey runs crossed decades of comics continuity.

Other Cyclops actors successful the past person included James Marsden, Tim Pocock and Tye Sheridan.

Samara Weaving arsenic Emma Frost

Emma Frost is simply a powerful telepath who tin besides toggle shape her assemblage into surviving diamond, a erstwhile supervillain who led the Hellfire Club arsenic the White Queen earlier becoming a cardinal X-Men member.

January Jones antecedently played the characteristic successful X-Men: First Class (2011) and Tahyna Tozzi successful 2009.

Weaving has had a beardown 2026 — she led Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come successful March and co-led IFC’s Over Your Dead Body other Jason Segel, victor of a SXSW Audience Award. Emma Frost's civilized ambiguity is precisely the benignant of domiciled her filmography suggests she is built for.

Christopher Abbott arsenic Professor X/Charles Xavier

Christopher Abbott takes connected the domiciled of Charles Xavier, the telepathic laminitis of the X-Men. The 40 twelvemonth aged has already had the chance to flex his acting chops crossed a scope of activity including The Crowded James White, It Comes astatine Night, and Possessor. His casting points to a much analyzable type of Xavier arsenic opposed to say, James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart’s iconic gravitas.

Inde Navarrette arsenic Rogue

Inde Navarrette plays Rogue, the Southern mutant whose powerfulness to sorb others’ abilities and memories done tegument interaction intends she cannot touch different personification without harm. This makes her alternatively an isolated fig successful the X-Men canon. Navarrette had previously said publicly that she was gunning for Mystique alternatively than Rogue earlier the announcement. Nobody has been announced for that domiciled yet, though. Anna Paquin antecedently played Rogue crossed the Fox X-Men series.

Maya Boyd arsenic Storm

Maya Boyd joins arsenic Ororo Munroe, known arsenic Storm, an Omega-level upwind manipulator who has led the X-Men and astatine various points ruled the federation of Wakanda successful the comics. Halle Berry played Storm crossed 4 Fox X-Men films. Boyd is simply a newer name, truthful her casting has the slightest anterior discourse of each the announcements today. Storm’s domiciled successful the movie is somewhat of an intriguing role.

Adam Driver arsenic Mister Sinister

The villain if location ever was one. The Marvel property release didn’t explicitly sanction Driver arsenic Mister Sinister, but the website says he’s playing a “very sinister fig named Nathaniel Milbury.” Nathan Milbury is 1 of Mister Sinister’s aliases, truthful it’s safe to presume what his domiciled will be.

Nathaniel Essex/Mister Sinister is simply a Victorian-era geneticist who became obsessed pinch mutant genetics and granted himself immortality. His narration pinch Jean Grey especially, runs crossed cardinal X-Men comic arcs.