Black Mirror Season 7 premiered on Netflix on 10 April 2025, with six episodes and Charlie Brooker’s most star-studded cast to date. The season includes the first true Black Mirror sequel: USS Callister: Into Infinity, following on from the Emmy-winning Season 4 episode. Beyond the returning cast, Season 7 brings Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Emma Corrin, Peter Capaldi, Awkwafina, Chris O’Dowd, Cristin Milioti, and Will Poulter to Brooker’s anthology universe. The combined net worth of the Season 7 leads runs comfortably above $100 million, reflecting the calibre of talent Netflix assembled. Here is a breakdown of each episode’s cast and what they are worth.
Common People: Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Tracee Ellis Ross
Common People opens the season. Jones plays Amanda, a schoolteacher whose husband Mike (Chris O’Dowd) enrols her in a system called Rivermind after a medical emergency threatens her life, but at a cost the episode explores. Tracee Ellis Ross plays Gaynor. The episode is directed by Ally Pankiw from a story by Charlie Brooker and Bisha K. Ali.
Rashida Jones has an estimated net worth of $25 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She is the daughter of musician Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, giving her one of the most culturally significant family backgrounds in Hollywood. Her career spans The Office (US), Parks and Recreation, and Angie Tribeca, and she co-wrote the original Black Mirror episode Nosedive for Season 3, making Common People her first appearance as a performer in the series. She also appeared in the Apple TV+ series Sunny.
Tracee Ellis Ross has an estimated net worth of $16 million. She is best known for her lead role in Black-ish, for which she received six Emmy nominations, and earlier roles in Girlfriends and Mixed-ish. Her film credits include American Fiction, which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Chris O’Dowd has an estimated net worth of $6 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. He is best known as Roy Trenneman in Channel 4’s The IT Crowd and his role in the Hollywood comedy Bridesmaids. He appeared in Moone Boy, which he also created, and in the Emmy-winning short-form comedy-drama State of the Union.
Hotel Reverie: Issa Rae, Emma Corrin, Awkwafina, Harriet Walter
Hotel Reverie is directed by Haolu Wang and runs 76 minutes, making it one of the feature-length episodes of the season. Issa Rae plays Hollywood A-list star Brandy Friday, who finds herself trapped inside a hyper-immersive remake of a vintage British film and must stick to the script to make it home. Emma Corrin plays Dorothy, Awkwafina plays Kimmy, and Harriet Walter plays Judith Keyworth.
Issa Rae has an estimated net worth of $20 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She created, wrote, and starred in the HBO comedy-drama Insecure, founded the production company Hoorae Media, and appeared in the Barbie film in 2023. She is one of the most commercially significant creator-performer hyphenates working in American television. Emma Corrin has an estimated net worth of approximately $2 million. They are best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales, in Season 4 of The Crown, for which they received a Golden Globe, and played the villain Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine in 2024. Awkwafina has an estimated net worth of $8 million. She starred in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Farewell, and Jumanji: The Next Level and has voice credits including Raya and the Last Dragon and Kung Fu Panda 4. Harriet Walter is an acclaimed stage and screen actress best known recently for her role in Succession as Caroline Collingwood.
Eulogy: Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti stars in Eulogy, the episode Netflix Tudum describes as a story about a man revisiting painful memories. Giamatti is the wealthiest member of the Season 7 cast at an estimated net worth of $25 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. He is a Yale graduate whose father was president of Yale and Commissioner of Major League Baseball. His career spans Sideways, Cinderella Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, John Adams (Emmy win), and seven seasons of Billions at an estimated $250,000 per episode. His most recent major film role is The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe win in 2024. His filmography has a combined box office gross exceeding $6.5 billion.
Plaything: Peter Capaldi, Lewis Gribben, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry
Plaything is set in a near-future London where an eccentric murder suspect is linked to an unusual video game from the 1990s populated by evolving artificial lifeforms. Peter Capaldi plays Cameron Walker in the 2034 timeline and Lewis Gribben plays the same character in the 1994 timeline. Will Poulter plays Colin Ritman and Asim Chaudhry plays Mohan Thakur.
Peter Capaldi has an estimated net worth of $10 million. He is best known internationally for playing the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who and for his career-defining role as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It and its spinoff film In The Loop, for which he won a BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance. The Malcolm Tucker performance is among the most acclaimed comedic creations in British television history. Will Poulter’s return as Colin Ritman is significant for Black Mirror fans: he first played the character in Bandersnatch, the standalone interactive Netflix film from 2018. His other credits include The Revenant, Midsommar, Dopesick (Emmy nomination), The Bear (Emmy nomination), and Adam Warlock in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. His estimated net worth is $5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Asim Chaudhry is best known for People Just Do Nothing, the BAFTA-winning comedy mockumentary.
USS Callister: Into Infinity: Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Jimmi Simpson
The Black Mirror sequel that fans have been waiting for since the original USS Callister episode in 2018. The crew of the USS Callister return for a new adventure in virtual space, with Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Jimmi Simpson, Milanka Brooks, Osy Ikhile, and Paul G. Raymond all reprising their roles. It is the first time Charlie Brooker has written a true sequel to a Black Mirror episode.
Cristin Milioti has an estimated net worth of $6 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She has a Tony nomination and Grammy win for her stage role in Once, appeared in The Wolf of Wall Street, and became a household name through How I Met Your Mother. Her recent peak has been extraordinary: Palm Springs sold to Hulu for $17.5 million in 2020, she starred in HBO’s The Penguin as Sofia Falcone, and won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for that role in 2025. Returning to USS Callister represents a reunion with the role that first made her internationally recognisable. Billy Magnussen is best known for No Time to Die, Game Night, and Aladdin. Jimmi Simpson’s credits include Westworld and Black Mirror’s original Playtest episode.
Black Mirror Season 7 Cast Net Worth: Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the richest actor in Black Mirror Season 7?
Paul Giamatti and Rashida Jones are jointly the wealthiest cast members in Black Mirror Season 7, each with an estimated net worth of $25 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. Giamatti stars in the episode Eulogy and is known for The Holdovers, Billions, and Sideways. Jones stars in Common People and previously co-wrote the Black Mirror Season 3 episode Nosedive.
When did Black Mirror Season 7 come out?
Black Mirror Season 7 premiered on Netflix on 10 April 2025, with all six episodes released simultaneously. The season was created by Charlie Brooker and includes the first true Black Mirror sequel, USS Callister: Into Infinity, following on from the Emmy-winning Season 4 episode USS Callister.
Who returns from the original USS Callister episode?
Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Jimmi Simpson, Milanka Brooks, Osy Ikhile, and Paul G. Raymond all return for USS Callister: Into Infinity. The episode is the first sequel in Black Mirror history. Jesse Plemons, who played the villain in the original, does not appear in the sequel. Will Poulter also returns to the Black Mirror universe, having previously played Colin Ritman in the standalone interactive film Bandersnatch in 2018.
What is Emma Corrin’s net worth?
Emma Corrin has an estimated net worth of approximately $2 million. They are best known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales, in Season 4 of The Crown, for which they received a Golden Globe Award. In 2024 they played the villain Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine. In Black Mirror Season 7 they appear in Hotel Reverie alongside Issa Rae and Awkwafina.