The Lost City Cast Guide: Where You Know The Actors From

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The Lost City (2022)

By Mae Abdulbaki

Updated Apr 16, 2023

The Lost City cast helps to elevate the movie to a fun adventure throwback with some entertaining characters. With Oscar-winners, Hollywood's biggest stars, and Harry Potter himself, the star-studded ensemble of The Lost City is one of its biggest selling points. Fans will remember many of these actors for some of their most iconic roles while others might not be as familiar to them. However, there is plenty of time to explore The Lost City cast and remind people of the colorful characters they play in this wild action-comedy ride.

Directed by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee from a screenplay they co-wrote with Oren Uziel and Dana Fox, The Lost City follows Loretta Sageis, a best-selling romance novelist who is on a book tour for her latest novel. However, she is kidnapped by Abigail Fairfax, who is convinced that the fictional lost city is real. In a bid to save her, Alan, a book model, joins the jungle adventure despite not having any actual skills to help. The Lost City is an action-adventure comedy that will see the characters in rather precarious and comedic situations. Here is a full cast guide, which characters they are playing, and which films and TV shows the actors have been in before.

Sandra Bullock As Loretta Sage

Loretta Sage is a renowned romance novelist whose books are best-sellers. Following the death of her husband, she finds that she is losing a lot of her adventurous spirit that inspires her stories. However, being forced on this treasure hunt actually works to reignite those feelings. Loretta is portrayed by Sandra Bullock, who is best known for her roles in Miss Congeniality, Speed, Gravity, The Proposal, The Blind Side, the Netflix film Bird Box, Crash, 28 Days, and Ocean’s Eight, among several others. Despite its success, Bullock announced a break from acting following The Lost City.

Channing Tatum As Alan Caprison/Dash McMahon

Alan Caprison is the cover model for Loretta’s romance novels, playing the character of Dash McMahon from her books who attempts to gallantly save her from Abigail Fairfax. His takes to his role as the face of Loretta's books quite well, and while Loretta herself sees him as a joke, Alan insists he enjoys making her fans happy. Alan is portrayed by Channing Tatum, who is best known for his roles in Magic Mike and its sequel Magic Mike XXL, 21 Jump Street, The Hateful Eight, The Lego Batman Movie, Dear John, and Step Up.

Daniel Radcliffe As Abigail Fairfax

Abigail Fairfax is a billionaire and criminal who kidnaps Loretta in a bid to find the lost city that she wrote about in her books. Though he acts as a polite and eager fan at first, Fairfax proves that he is more ruthless and villainous than he lets on. Fairfax is portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe, who is perhaps best known for playing the title character in all eight of the Harry Potter franchise movies. Radcliffe has also starred in the TBS series Miracle Workers, Now You See Me 2, Trainwreck, and The Woman in Black.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph As Beth

Beth is Loretta Sage’s book publicist. She is hard on Loretta for her lack of engagement with her fans as well as her slow progress on her latest book. However, when Loretta is kidnapped, Beth jumps into action and even goes after her herself. Da’Vine Joy Randolph has been in the Eddie Murphy-starring film Dolemite is My Name, Only Murders in the Buildings, High Fidelity, Empire, and On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

The Lost City Supporting Cast & Character Guide

Patti Harrison as Allison - Allison is Loretta's social media manager, who is trying responsible for posting on Twitter. Allison is often unhelpful with the more serious situation Loretta finds herself in and is relegated to looking after Beth's Nana (Joan Pringle). Patti Harrison is best known for her turns in Together Together, Shrill, A Simple Favor, and Raya and the Last Dragon.

Oscar Nuñez as Randy - Randy is a cargo plane pilot who aids with the mission to the lost city. Oscar Nuñez is most famous for playing Oscar Martinez in The Office. He’s also been in The Proposal, the Baywatch remake, Mr. Iglesias, People of Earth, and The Italian Job.

Brad Pitt as Jack Trainer - Jack Trainer is a former Navy Seal who Alan calls on to help. Unlike Allan, Trainer is the perfect person for the job and quickly located Loretta while taking out several of the bad guys. Unfortunately for Lortta and Allan, Trainer makes an unexpected early exit from the movie. Brad Pitt is best known for his roles in Ocean’s Eleven, Ad Astra, Se7en, Moneyball, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and Fight Club.

Héctor Aníbal as Rafi - Rafi is one of Abigail Fairfax's henchmen in The Lost City. Héctor Aníbal has appeared in xXx: Return of Xander Cage and Sugar Fields.

Thomas Forbes-Johnson as Julian - Julian is also one of Abigail Fairfax's henchmen. Thomas Forbes-Johnson has been a stuntman in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Forever Purge, and A Quiet Place Part II.