Season 2 Adds Navid Negahban (SPOILERS) 

‘s “villain of a thousand faces” has a new face… and it’s a familiar one.

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veteran Navid Negahban ahead of the upcoming Season 2, creator Noah Hawley announced at Friday’s Television Critics Association winter press tour. Negahban will play Ahmal Farouk, aka the Shadow King, the mysterious villain who attached himself to the psyche of lead mutant David Haller (Dan Stevens) last season before being cast out in the finale.

), who was announced as playing Farouk this past summer during

‘s Comic-Con panel, and then left the series in November. Season 2 of

, with Negahban as Farouk, is slated to premiere in April.

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