Euphoria confirms new cast members for season three

L-R: Maude Apatow, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya will all be returning to the series

US actors Danielle Deadwyler, Natasha Lyonne and Eli Roth will join the cast of Euphoria when it returns for its third season next year.

The hugely popular series will be broadcast in the spring of 2026 after a four-year break, broadcaster HBO confirmed.

The new stars join the previously announced returning cast including Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer and Colman Domingo.

Euphoria follows a group of young students as they navigate issues such as love, friendship, drugs, sex, trauma and social media.

The third season of the Emmy-winning show went into production earlier this year in Los Angeles, and will consist of eight episodes.

According to reports, the new series will feature a time jump that moves the show's younger characters out of high school.

The second season concluded with Zendaya's character Rue getting sober, but with several storylines unresolved.

It's taken several years for the show to return, partly because showrunner Sam Levinson has been working on other projects.

But the show also made huge stars of its young cast, who have become major Hollywood names since the show launched and appeared in a string of other projects in the intervening years.

Storm Reid, who played Zendaya's on-screen sister, confirmed last year that she is not returning for series three.

Actor Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco, died aged 25 after season two, which ended on a major cliff-hanger involving his character.

Details of the new characters and their plot lines have not yet been announced.

Who is joining Euphoria for season three?

L-R: Trisha Paytas, Danielle Deadwyler and Natasha Lyonne are among the actors joining for season three

The 18 newly announced cast members include Danielle Deadwyler, who has been nominated for several major awards for her performance in films such as Till and The Piano Lesson.

Natasha Lyonne, who has starred in Orange is the New Black, American Pie and His Three Daughters will also join for season three.

American Hustle and Apocalypse Now star Colleen Camp, Hostel star and creator Eli Roth, and singer and YouTuber Trisha Paytas have also joined the cast.

Other actors to join include The Wire's Kwame Patterson, Ozark's Madison Thompson, True Blood's Sam Trammell, The Unit's Rebecca Pidgeon, and NFL star-turned-actor Matthew Willig.

Cailyn Rice, of Yellowstone spin-off 1923 and Bella Podaras, known for Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love will also star, alongside Gideon Adlon, who appeared in Netflix's The Society and Jessica Blair Herman of American Crime Story.

The new cast is rounded out by Bill Bodner, Jack Topalian, known for General Hospital, Hemky Madera, who has appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Netflix series Kaleidoscope, and Homer Gere, son of actor Richard Gere.

Who else will appear in the series?

Sharon Stone and Rosalía are among the other cast members who were previously confirmed to be joining the show this year.

Other new actors announced earlier include Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Toby Wallace, Marshawn Lynch, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Kadeem Hardison, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, Anna Van Patten and Asante Blackk.

The show's principal starts set to return include Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Colman Domingo, Martha Kelly and Chloe Cherry.