American Horror Story: The True Story Behind Sarah Paulson's Casting

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American Horror Story has been around long enough to build its own list of recurrent actors, and one who has been in almost every season is Sarah Paulson, and here’s the true story behind her casting. The horror genre’s success in recent years has not only been on the big screen but has also expanded to TV, and one of the most popular horror shows is American Horror Story. Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, American Horror Story is an anthology series that covers different horror themes, characters, and settings in each season, with some actors returning in different seasons.

Although each season of American Horror Story is treated as a self-contained miniseries, the many references to past characters and events and some crossovers have created an AHS connected universe, which is further supported by the show’s recurring actors. One of the actors that have returned in almost every season of American Horror Story is Sarah Paulson, who started as a recurrent character in the first season, now known as Murder House, and became a main character from season 2 onward. Sarah Paulson has appeared in every season of AHS except for 1984, and she has become a favorite of the audience, as she often plays tragic and complex characters.

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Sarah Paulson’s debut in AHS was as Billie Dean Howard in Murder House, a medium hired by Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange) to contact Addy. Since then, Sarah Paulson has become a must-have in the cast ofAmerican Horror Story, and she owes it all to none other than Jessica Lange, who asked Ryan Murphy if he could make room for Paulson in AHS: Murder House, and that was the beginning of one of the series’ best collaborations.