Final Destination 2 cast and character guide: Who plays whom in the American horror's second installment

Final Destination 2 revs up the horror with a fresh batch of unlucky survivors and one of the most iconic opening scenes in early 2000s cinema, a highway pile-up that still haunts viewers to this day. Released in 2003, this sequel raises the stakes and brings back Death’s relentless pattern, one chilling accident at a time.

With returning faces like Ali Larter’s Clear Rivers and new leads like A. J. Cook’s Kimberly Corman, the film blends suspense, fate, and fatality in classic Final Destination fashion. Here’s your complete guide to who plays whom in this twisted second chapter of the franchise.

Cast and character guide of Final Destination 2

A. J. Cook as Kimberly Corman

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A. J. Cook steps into as Kimberly Corman, the determined college student who sees lives ending before they truly begin. Heading to spring break in Final Destination 2 with friends, Kimberly experiences a premonition of a catastrophic highway pile-up and halts traffic in time to save a handful of strangers, including Officer Thomas Burke. As accidents strike one by one, Cook’s claim‑to‑horror‑fame character grows from frightened survivor into a fierce force who risks everything, even her own life, to cheat Death’s design.

She ultimately drowns herself and is revived, achieving the franchise’s only successful “new life” trick to break Death’s cycle. Known for her emotional range and steely resolve, Kimberly reshapes Final Destination mythology as a visionary who outsmarts fate.

Ali Larter as Clear Rivers

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Ali Larter returns as Clear Rivers, a haunted survivor turned reluctant mentor in Final Destination 2. First introduced in Final Destination (2000), Clear Marie Rivers is the lone survivor of Flight 180 and bears the burden of cheating Death’s design.

In the sequel, we find her wrestling grief and paranoia in a psychiatric ward, self‑imprisoned to avoid Death’s reach. Forced to emerge, she reluctantly guides Kimberly Corman through the deadly aftermath of the Route 23 crash, decoding ominous clues and Death’s reversed order. Ultimately, Clear meets a fiery end in a hospital explosion, consumed while trying to protect others.

Noel Fisher as Brian Gibbons

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Noel Fisher plays Brian Gibbons on Final Destination 2, who was just your average farm boy minding his business, until a rogue SUV, a speeding news van, and Death’s increasingly chaotic mood swings roped him into the mess. Initially not even on Death’s radar, he gets saved by Rory, which punches his ticket onto the list. His final moment? A backyard picnic turned barbecue blast when the grill literally blew him to pieces, sending his arm flying onto his mom’s plate like some sick cosmic prank. His death later made the news.

Michael Landes as Thomas Burke

Michael Landes plays Thomas Burke is a state trooper from Westchester County and one of the few who survive Death’s list in Final Destination 2. Thanks to Kimberly Corman’s premonition, he avoids a brutal highway death and becomes one of the only adults who takes her warning seriously.

Alongside Kimberly and Clear Rivers, he tries to stop Death’s chain by targeting “new life” on Final Destination 2. After a string of tragic deaths and a dramatic hospital dash, Kimberly sacrifices herself and is revived, seemingly resetting Death’s plan. While a non-canonical bonus scene claims Burke later died in a freak woodchipper accident, the official timeline leaves his fate open.

Lynda Boyd as Nora Carpenter

Nora Carpenter is a widowed mother and one of the Route 23 crash survivors in Final Destination 2. After Kimberly's premonition saves her and son Tim from a gruesome highway death, Nora brushes off the idea that Death is still after them. But tragedy strikes when she witnesses Tim's sudden, horrific demise outside the dentist’s office. Nora barely has time to grieve before Death comes knocking again. This time, it’s an elevator, a prosthetic hook, and some very bad luck. What follows is a decapitation that’s gruesome even by Final Destination standards.

Keegan Connor Tracy as Kat Jennings

Keegan Connor Tracy plays Kat Jennings, who is a no-nonsense marketing exec who narrowly escapes death more than once, first dodging a deadly gas leak, then surviving Kimberly’s Route 23 premonition. Confident and a little condescending, Kat brushes off the whole “Death’s list” idea, but fate’s got a cruel sense of irony.

After a blowout sends her SUV careening into a farm, Kat’s pinned by a log and impaled through the head when a rescue worker sets off her airbag.

David Paetkau as Evan Lewis

David Paetkau plays Evan Lewis, who was living his best life post-lottery win, dripping in gold chains and fried mozzarella sticks. After escaping the Route 23 pile-up thanks to Kimberly’s vision, he returns home cocky, clueless, and ready for a dinner disaster.

Between microwaving metal-laced noodles and starting a grease fire, Evan basically challenges Death to a rematch. When he finally escapes his flaming apartment, karma slips him up, literally. He faceplants on his own tossed spaghetti, and a falling fire escape ladder impales his eye. From jackpot to jackass, Evan proves that luck runs out, especially when you're fighting Death.

T. C. Carson plays Eugene Dix

Eugene Dix is the no-nonsense high school teacher with enough sarcasm to fill a chalkboard. After narrowly dodging death in the Route 23 pile-up, he’s not buying Kimberly’s talk of fate, until Nora loses her head in an elevator. Spooked, Eugene tries to shoot himself just to beat Death to the punch, but the gun jams, because even Death likes the drama.

Later, after a PVC pipe stabs him in the lung, he ends up in the hospital, wheezing, wired, and very much next in line. Unfortunately, when Clear opens the wrong door at the wrong time, Eugene goes out in a blaze.