Dan Brown’s ‘The Secret Of Secrets’ TV Adaptation For Netflix Casts Mamadou Athie & Ben Levi Ross

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s TV adaptation of the Dan Brown novel The Secret of Secrets has cast Mamadou Athie (The Drama, Uncorked) and Ben Levi Ross (Ragtime, Elsbeth) in recurring roles.

The as-yet untitled series adaptation is said to blend futuristic science with mystical lore. In The Secret of Secrets novel, symbologist Robert Langdon (Morgan Spector) races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind.

The series also stars Rebecca Hall as Katherine Solomon, Cherry Jones as Heide Nagel, Corey Stoll as Everett Finch, Rob Delaney as Jonas Faukman, and Abbey Lee as Sasha Vesna.

Athie will play Michael Harris, and Ross will play Alex Conan.

Brown’s novels have sold over 250 million copies in 56 languages. The character of Langdon has been featured in five previous books: Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013) and Origin (2017). The Secret of Secrets was published by Doubleday on September 9, 2025.

Carlton Cuse and author Brown are co-creators and executive producers of the series adaptation, with the former serving as writer and showrunner. Emma Forman of Cuse’s Genre-Arts also executive produces the project with Zoe Robyn, which landed at Netflix in May 2025 with a straight-to-series order.

Athie is repped by WME and Range Media Partners, and Ross by WME and Curate.