Ray Nicholson will next star in the Amazon series *Panic, based on Lauren Oliver’s best-selling book. Nicholson has the lead role as Ray Hall, a high school apex predator with a long memory and a short fuse, who engages in a competition with classmates to escape their small town. The series is scheduled to be released in 2021.

Nicholson was last seen in Emerald Fennell’s Academy Award-nominated film, Promising Young Woman, and a recurring role on FX’s hit television series Mayans M.C.

Olivia Welch was born in a north-ish Texas town you’ve already forgotten the name of. At the ripe age of four her grandparents, who have very strong Southern accents, introduced her to the kind of movies she wasn’t allowed to watch at home. Movies like, but not limited to, Big Fish, Moulin Rouge, A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Tim Burton Batman flicks, and enough episodes of 48 Hours to put the show’s title to shame. This wide range of content sparked a deep love of acting and storytelling inside her. She proceeded to bombard her parents with this dream until they finally let her attend a film school one summer when she was but 11 years old. In all honesty, she was quite shy at the beginning of her journey, but she really loved creating characters and diving deep into her scripts. Just two years and an insane amount of hard work later, she became one of the youngest teachers at the film school. Her life then became a delicate balancing act of dividing her time between actual public school, acting for camera classes, and molding impressionable young minds as a student teacher, training them to be actors, as well as a small army she could use if she ever developed an arch enemy. At 17, she got her first big break in the form of a leading role on a Nickelodeon pilot that, unfortunately, never aired. With her newfound confidence and experience she decided to take on pilot season in Los Angeles. She booked a recurring role on Modern Family and became a part of the Marvel Universe through her role on Agent Carter. She also had a recurring role on an the Netflix original series Unbelievable. In 2018, she locked in the lead role on Amazon’s Panic. Welch is also the lead of the upcoming FOX film trilogy Fear Street.