Genre

• Legal drama

• Mystery

• Thriller

Created by Peter Nowalk

Executive producers

• Shonda Rhimes

• Betsy Beers

• Bill D'Elia

• Peter Nowalk

Producers

• Scott Collins

• Tracy Bellomo

• Viola Davis

Cast

• Viola Davis as Annalise Keating, a high-profile criminal defense attorney and law professor at Middleton University, whose life has been filled with trauma.

• Billy Brown as Nate Lahey, a Philadelphia police detective who at the start of the series is having an affair with Annalise.

• Alfred Enoch as Wes Gibbins (seasons 1–3; guest season 4), a law student and a member of Annalise's group of favored students – the so-called Keating 5 – and about whom she feels especially protective. Enoch also played Christopher Castillo, Wes and Laurel's son, in the series finale.

• Jack Falahee as Connor Walsh, a cunning and hard-working member of the Keating 5 whose confident and seductive "alpha gay" exterior obscures his insecurities.

• Katie Findlay as Rebecca Sutter (season 1; guest season 2), Wes' neighbor.

• Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt, a high-flying overachiever and a member of the Keating 5 who is determined to make a success of her life.

• Matt McGorry as Asher Millstone, a member of the Keating 5 from a privileged WASP background who feels left out of the group.

• Karla Souza as Laurel Castillo (seasons 1–5; recurring season 6), a resourceful Keating 5 member whose distant, wealthy father is the kingpin of an organized crime empire.

• Charlie Weber as Frank Delfino, Annalise's fixer and private detective.

• Liza Weil as Bonnie Winterbottom, Annalise's associate and right-hand woman, whose childhood and early adulthood were filled with horrifying events.

• Conrad Ricamora as Oliver Hampton (seasons 3–6; recurring seasons 1–2), a talented computer hacker who Connor seduces and later married.

• Rome Flynn as Gabriel Maddox (seasons 5–6; guest season 4), a mysterious young man and aspiring civil rights lawyer who arrives at Middleton University eager to investigate Annalise and the Keating 5.

• Amirah Vann as Tegan Price (seasons 5–6; recurring season 4), a powerful attorney at Caplan & Gold, the firm representing Laurel's father, who develops feelings for Annalise.

• Timothy Hutton as Emmett Crawford (season 5), a managing partner at Caplan & Gold who develops an attraction towards Annalise.

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How to Get Away with Murder is an American legal thriller television series film that premiered on ABC on September 25, 2014, and concluded on May 14, 2020.The series film was created by Peter Nowalk, and produced by Shonda Rhimes and ABC Studios. The series aired on ABC as part of a night of programming, all under Rhimes's Shondaland production company.

Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with five of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot.The series featured an ensemble cast with Alfred Enoch, Jack Falahee, Aja Naomi King, Matt McGorry, and Karla Souza as Keating's students, Charlie Weber and Liza Weil as her employees, and Billy Brown as a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department who is Annalise's lover. From the third season onward, Conrad Ricamora was promoted to the main cast after recurring heavily in the first two seasons.

For her performance, Davis received critical acclaim; she became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, also winning two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and the Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. Davis has also received nominations from the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series, the Critics' Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and the Television Critics Association at the TCA Awards for Individual Achievement in Drama.

Other cast members also received recognition for their performances, with Enoch and King receiving nominations from the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards ceremony. The series also received a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series.

Original release date - September 25, 2014 – May 14, 2020