--- title: Sarah Paulson Will Check Into 'American Horror Story: Hotel' description: Co-creator Ryan Murphy announced Paulson’s casting on Twitter. canonical: https://time.com/3820251/sarah-paulson-american-horror-story-hotel/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-13T21:10:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:22:10.098Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Sarah Paulson Will Check Into 'American Horror Story: Hotel' og:description: Co-creator Ryan Murphy announced Paulson’s casting on Twitter og:url: https://time.com/3820251/sarah-paulson-american-horror-story-hotel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Paulson Will Check Into 'American Horror Story: Hotel' twitter:description: Co-creator Ryan Murphy announced Paulson’s casting on Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Sarah Paulson Will Check Into _American Horror Story: Hotel_ by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Apr 13, 2015 9:10 PM UTC by [Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Entertainment Weekly Apr 13, 2015 9:10 PM UTC That cheering you hear is the throngs of _American Horror Story_ viewers learning that fan favorite Sarah Paulson, who has appeared in every season of _AHS_, will be returning for season 5’s _Hotel_. Co-creator Ryan Murphy announced Paulson’s casting on Twitter today. > [](https://twitter.com/MrRPMurphy/status/587700660906262528) The actress, who has been nominated for two Emmys for her turns on _AHS_, will join previously announced Lady Gaga, Matt Bomer, Kathy Bates, Chloe Sevigny, Wes Bentley, and Cheyenne Jackson on _Hotel_. Paulson will also appear in Murphy’s other anthology series, _American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson_, as Marcia Clark. _American Horror Story: Hotel_ will shoot this summer in L.A. and premiere this fall on FX. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/13/sarah-paulson-play-baddest-bad-girl-them-all-american-horror-story-hotel) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com)_._ _Read next:_ [_Jessica Lange Bids Farewell to_ ](http://time.com/3745750/american-horror-story-cast/?iid=time%5Freadnext)[American Horror Story](http://time.com/3745750/american-horror-story-cast/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3820251/sarah-paulson-american-horror-story-hotel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3820251/sarah-paulson-american-horror-story-hotel/"},"headline":"Sarah Paulson Will Check Into American Horror Story: Hotel","datePublished":"2015-04-13T21:10:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:22:10.098Z","description":"Co-creator Ryan Murphy announced Paulson’s casting on Twitter","url":"https://time.com/3820251/sarah-paulson-american-horror-story-hotel/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Entertainment Weekly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3820251/sarah-paulson-american-horror-story-hotel/","name":"Sarah Paulson Will Check Into American Horror Story: Hotel"}}]}] ```