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Joanna Vanderham to play villain in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 5

January 19, 2020 by Gary Collinson

Deadline is reporting that Warrior actress Joanna Vanderham has been cast in the fifth season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.

As per the site, Vanderham will portray as as-yet-unnamed villain who is described as “a ruthless killing machine with daggers made of bones” and who has ties to the past of Maisie Richardson-Sellers’ Charlie.

Olivia Swann’s Astra Logue is expected to be the main big bad of the fifth season of Legends, while Terry Chen (Jessica Jones) has also been cast as the infamous conqueror Genghis Khan.

SEE ALSO: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow gets a new season 5 trailer

Season five of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is set to get underway this coming Tuesday (January 21st), and features a cast that also includes Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/White Canary, Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/The Atom, Dominic Purcell as Mick Rory/HeatWave, Nick Zano as Dr. Nate Heywood/Steel, Jes Macallan as Ava Sharpe, Courtney Ford as Nora Darhk, Matt Ryan as John Constantine, Ramona Young as Mona Yu, Tala Ashe as Zari Tomaz.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: DC, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Joanna Vanderham

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer who is the Editor-in-Chief of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature 'The Baby in the Basket' and suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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