Vampire Diaries and Originals star's next TV series revealed

The Vampire Diaries and The Originals star Joseph Morgan has landed his next big role in DC's Titans.

The actor, who famously played Niklaus 'Klaus' Mikaelson in the CW series and its subsequent spin-off, has joined the superhero show as villain Sebastian Blood – aka Brother Blood – in a recurring role for season four.

Also joining the fray are Taboo's Franka Potente May Bennett/Mother Mayhem, while Doctors actress Lisa Ambalavanar is on board as Jinx.

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Blood is a highly intelligent introvert who hides a hidden darker nature, and previously appeared in Arrow (played by Kevin Alejandro).

Mother Mayhem, meanwhile, is a natural leader with a threat of violence, more a predator in human form who has an unrestrained belief in her mission, while Jinx is a master of dark magic who takes joy in manipulating others and creating chaos.

Titans was confirmed to be getting a fourth season last year during the DC FanDome event, the show sharing a fight compilation video accompanied by the caption "we go again!"

The last season of the show saw Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites) team up with Police Commissioner Barbara Gordon (Savannah Welch) in order to protect Gotham, while the heroes faced off against Jason Todd / Red Hood (Curran Walters).

Meanwhile, last year Morgan opened up about the initial plan for his Vampire Diaries character Klaus, revealing his was originally lined up for only four episodes.

"From the beginning it was always thought that Klaus would die at the end of season three," he said. "So I would come in at the end of season two, season three would be my big season of being this villain throughout the whole season and then the good guys would defeat me at the end of season three.

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"That's what I wanted as well, because it wasn't my show and I thought: 'Well this is great, I can springboard off this and try and get my own show and keep building my profile and use this as part of that'.

"Then a few things happened – one was of course the degree of passion with which the fans responded to the character and the other was that I was just having so much fun playing [him] and I always felt that for the character there wasn't enough room to grow in the setting of The Vampire Diaries."

Titans airs on HBO Max.

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