“Gotham” has tapped “Heroes” alum Milo Ventimiglia for a multiepisode recurring guest arc, Variety has learned.
Ventimiglia will play Jason Lennon, aka “the Ogre,” beginning in episode 19 of the Fox hit’s freshman season.
Handsome, wealthy and seductive, the Ogre is a serial killer who has been preying on the young women of Gotham for nearly a decade, luring them into his web and confronting them with a series of “tests” as he searches for his perfect mate. When the women fail to live up to his impossible standard, Lennon disposes of them quickly and viciously.
His obsessions, combined with the determination of Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) to bring him down, send both Gordon and Lennon — as well as those around them — on a course toward tragedy.
Reps for the show note that while Ventimiglia’s character shares a nickname with a villain from the DC Comics pantheon, the “Gotham” Ogre is unrelated to previous versions.
Ventimiglia can next be seen in ABC’s midseason mystery series “The Whispers,” with an airdate yet to be confirmed.
“Gotham” airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on Fox.
