Convent Life

Johanna of Leeds

Played by Kelsey Falconer
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Raised by an indulgent father who accidentally encouraged her to think, rebellious Johanna is secretly insecure, but outwardly arrogant. She thinks she’s better than the other nuns, until she learns their value and takes her rightful place in the sisterhood. When she’s not fighting for female liberation, Johanna writes appallingly cringe poetry - but imagines herself a medieval Emily Dickinson.

Sexton

Played by Amanda Barker
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A disappointed realist resigned to convent life after her idiot husband’s death leaves her without options. Sexton’s world explodes when she falls for Viking goddess Brynhilde.

Bishop Mitch

Played by Courtenay J. Stevens
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Ambitious, cruel, and jealous of God, the Bishop is serving penance at the priory after burning the wrong Jane Doe at the stake. He’s desperate to be sent back to England. Johanna is a woman he can’t control, and that gives him a driving need to break her.

Mabel

Played by Helen Belay
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Annoyingly pious Mabel dreams of sainthood while cluelessly washing lecherous leper Jacques. When kindness makes her break convent rules to help Johanna, she rejects Catholicism’s constraints to seek her own quirky path to God.

Cecily

Played by Meagan MacPherson
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Sex-obsessed Cecily is an uninformed, eager-to-learn virgin, needlepointing anatomically incorrect penises, terrified God will strike her blind for it.

Jacques

Played by Pierre Simpson
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An optimistic French Canadian leper, Jacques is consistently jolly despite his body parts always dropping off. He’s the guru the nuns go to for his wise insights, acquired over a mysterious and outrageous lifetime of doing God-knows-what.

Baldur

Played by Brendan Stevenson
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A Viking stonemason who’s dumber than his own sack of rocks, Baldur believes himself to be a nice guy, but in reality he’s caught in a confusing limbo between self-obsession and kindness.

Brynhilde

Played by Dani Klupsch
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Viking goddess Brynhilde lives by one rule: enjoy life in all its forms. She thinks the uptight nuns of Vinland Priory would do well to get on board with her lifestyle. She’s chill, she’s accepting, and she’ll try anything once. Or twice.

Leif

Played by Sean Stevenson
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The ambiguously Danish convent cook (sorry, chef!) is a true artiste, fiercely protective of his kitchen. He also imagines himself a writer (honestly, who doesn’t?) with an important story that deserves its own scroll. Leif is, alas, also a lonely man.