Harlan Coben returns to Netflix with another mystery, I Will Find You.

Adapted from the 2023 novel of the same name, the drama centres around a father imprisoned for murdering his young son.

While serving his sentence, he receives information that indicates – in true Harlan Coben fashion – that his son may still be alive.

I Will Find You has been called “maddeningly watchable” by critics despite its “ludicrous” plot twists and red herrings – yet we can’t stop watching it.

Netflix’s previous Harlan Coben adaptations, including Missing You, Run Away and Fool Me Once, have become known for their cast of famous faces – and this new show is no different.

I Will Find You marks his first American-set show, and with that comes an all-new international cast of film stars and character actors you’re sure to recognise.

Here is where you may have seen the cast of I Will Find You before…

Australian actor Sam Worthington is perhaps best known for playing Sully in James Cameron’s Avatar franchise.

He followed up his role in 2009′s Avatar with leading performances in Clash Of The Titans and its sequel, Wrath Of The Titans, in addition to the thriller Man On A Ledge and the biographical survival film Everest.

Sam has also starred in Kevin Costner’s magnum opus Horizon: An American Saga, as well as appearing with Riz Ahmed in the thriller Relay and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the action flick Fuze.

I Will Find You marks a rare foray into television for Sam, whose past work primarily consists of film projects.

However, he did appear in the action show Cleaners, the anthology series Manhunt and in 2022’s Under The Banner Of Heaven alongside Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Wyatt Russell.

You’ll likely recognise Britt Lower for her Emmy-winning role as “Helly R” in Apple TV+’s Severance.

Outside of Severance, Britt has been consistently working since 2010. She previously had a role in the TV rom-com Man Seeking Woman, and made minor appearances in the sitcom Ghosted, the sci-fi comedy Future Man and a 2022 episode of American Horror Stories.

On film, she recently starred in Sender, alongside Pluribus’ Rhea Seehorn and Jamie Lee Curtis, in which she played a woman who receives unnerving packages she never ordered.

Milo Ventimiglia has now been a heartthrob on our screens for almost three decades, although newer TV viewers will probably recognise him for playing patriarch Jack Pearson in This Is Us.

Before playing Jack, Milo found fame as brooding teen Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls, after which he was cast as Peter Petrelli in Heroes.

Since then, Milo has had small appearances in Amazon Prime shows The Marvellous Mrs Maisel and Countdown.

Meanwhile, Milo’s biggest movie role to date came when he played Sylvester Stallone’s on-screen son in 2006’s Rocky Balboa.

His other big-screen credits include the Adam Sandler films That’s My Boy and Grown Ups 2, the Jennifer Lopez rom-com Second Act and 2019’s The Art Of Racing In The Rain, in which he co-starred with Amanda Seyfried.

I Will Find You is far from Logan Browning’s first time starring in a Netflix project.

Between 2017 and 2021, she appeared in Dear White People, which followed Black students at an Ivy League university.

Her other TV credits include the Tyler Perry-produced sitcom Meet The Browns, the sports drama Hit The Floor and the superhero show Powers.

In film, she played Sasha in Bratz: The Movie and appeared as a promising cellist in the Allison Williams-led horror The Perfection, the latter of which was another Netflix production.

Welsh actor Erin Richards is best known for her role as Barbara Kean, Jim Gordon’s gangster girlfriend, in Gotham.

More recently, she played Dodi Fayed’s ex-girlfriend, Kelly Fisher, in the final two seasons of The Crown and starred in the Welsh-language crime drama Ar Y Ffin.

Her other credits include minor roles in the BBC fantasy series Merlin, the Channel 4 comedy-drama Misfits and the Michael Sheen-penned drama The Way.

Jonathan Tucker will be a well-known face to fans of indie cinema thanks to his roles in films like The Virgin Suicides and In the Valley Of Elah.

He regularly appears in horror movies, starring in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Wes Craven-penned Pulse in 2006 and The Ruins in 2008.

To television audiences, he is most famous for his roles as Bob Little in the comedy Parenthood, Jay Kulina in the MMA drama Kingdom, Confederados military officer Major Craddock in the dystopian drama Westworld and pilot Matt McDonald in the crime drama Snowfall.

Madeleine Stowe has been a recognisable face in American cinema since her breakout in the 1987 comedy Stakeout.

Some of her most notable performances include starring alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in The Last Of The Mohicans, as well as appearing in Robert Altman’s adaptation of Short Cuts and Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, which co-starred Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.

TV fans will also recognise Madeleine for playing the antagonistic Victoria Grayson in Revenge. Before I Will Find You, her most recent role came in last year’s It prequel Welcome To Derry, where she played both Ingrid and her unsettling clown alter-ego, Periwinkle.

Clancy Brown has more than 350 film and TV credits to his name, so you are almost certain to recognise him from something.

Some of his famous roles include the immortal The Krugan in Highlander, Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption and Cassie’s father in Promising Young Woman.

His recent film appearances include playing The Harbinger in John Wick: Chapter 4 and Miller’s grandfather Hank in the Colleen Hoover adaptation Regretting You.

On TV, his most memorable roles include playing Dr. Ellis West in ER, Methodist minister Justin Crowe in Carnivale and Attorney General Waylon “Jock” Jeffcoat in Billions.

He has found a resurgence in genre television, with appearances as Kurt Caldwell in Dexter: New Blood, Rich Brink in Gen V and Salvatore Maroni in The Penguin.

Aaron Ashmore is probably best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville, but he’s been a regular on our screens since the early 2000s.

Since his Smallville days, Aaron has had recurring roles in the US Marshall drama In Plain Sight, the space western Killjoys and Netflix’s sci-fi offering Locke & Key.

His most recent role saw him returning to Netflix, playing the abusive Gil Timmins in the popular drama Ginny & Georgia.

If you still haven’t worked out where you know Aaron’s face from – it may not actually be him that you’re thinking of. His twin brother, Shawn Ashmore is also an actor, and played Iceman in the X-Men movies.

Chi McBride has been a prominent character actor in film and TV for over three decades.

Some of his more prominent roles include playing Steven Harper in Boston Public, Emerson Cod in the short-lived Pushing Daisies and Captain Lou Grover in the recent Hawaii Five-0 reboot.

His film work has seen him in roles like the driving instructor Donny in Gone In 60 Seconds, cargo handler Joe in Spielberg’s The Terminal and Lt. John Bergin in Will Smith’s I, Robot.

Canadian actor Hugh Thompson has most recently been seen playing the corrupt Officer Baker in Amazon Prime’s Reacher.

His other recent TV credits include the Canadian drama Forgive Me, the detective show Murdoch Mysteries and the Stephen King adaptation Chapelwaite.

As for his film work, he has appeared in Stage Mother, Little Lorraine and last year’s What We Dreamed Of Then.

Peter Outerbridge is best known for playing the head of the Gogol Ari Tasarov in Nikita, season two bad guy Hank in Orphan Black and the Black Mask in Batgirl.

A regular in science fiction projects, he also appeared in The Umbrella Academy, It: Welcome To Derry, and, most recently, The Vampire Lestat, where he plays The Marquis de Lioncourt.

Peter’s most prominent movie performances are as insurance executive William Easton in Saw VI and as a supporting character in 2023’s Close To You, alongside Elliot Page.

Eric Johnson is best recognised for playing Det. Luke Callaghan in the police procedural Rookie Blue.

You may also know him for playing Dr. Everett Gallinger in period medical drama The Knick and Erik the Red in season six of Vikings.

On film, Eric played the antagonistic Jack Hyde in Fifty Shades Darker and its sequel. In 2018, he starred as Blake Likely’s character’s deceased, abusive husband, Davis, in A Simple Favor.

Greg Bryk is another Canadian actor known for his work in genre television, having appeared in projects like fantasy drama Bitten, sci-fi The Expanse and the horror Channel Zero: The Dream Door.

He also played the lead role in Canadian historical drama Frontier and recently also appeared in Reacher as the drug dealer Darien Prado.

Kate Vernon found fame in the iconic 1980s show Falcon Crest before landing supporting roles in LA Law as DDA Belinda Fox, Battlestar Galactica as Ellen Tigh and The 100 as Diana Sydney.

On the big screen, Kate starred as the stuck-up Benny in Brat Pack classic Pretty In Pink, an early girlfriend of the civil rights leader Malcolm X in Spike Lee’s biopic and Liam Hemsworth’s mother in the Miley Cyrus movie The Last Song.

Nicola Correia-Damude is known for playing Queen Maeve’s girlfriend in The Boys.

She also had a prominent role in Shadowhunters, where she played Maryse Lightwood, and in The Strain, as Dutch Velder’s girlfriend, Nikki.

Most recently, Nicola played Detective Lena Torres in Resident Alien, a comedy-drama about aliens crash landing in a small Colorado town.

Billy MacLellan’s television credits outside of I Will Find You include the sci-fi TV shows Defiance, 12 Monkeys and The Expanse.

You may have recently seen Billy in his role as Deputy Mike Nelson in the recent action-comedy Normal, directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Bob Odenkirk.

Prior to that, he starred with Bob in 2021’s action film Nobody, playing his character’s hapless brother-in-law.

All episodes of I Will Find You are currently streaming on Netflix.

If there’s one thing we all know about toddlers, it’s that they are capable of throwing some epic wobblies, over seemingly small things.

Of course, to a two-year-old, their banana breaking (or – even worse – you cutting it up for them when they wanted it whole) is a life-shattering ordeal.

But how’s best to respond when young kids do have the meltdown to end all meltdowns?

One therapist previously said asking them a “tiny, non-threatening question” can help distract in the moment (I’ll be honest, I don’t think my child would even hear me over the screeching).

For parenting coach Gen Muir, verbalising what you’re seeing – from the reason they’re having a tantrum, to the emotions they’re experiencing – can help. (She used this with her children and said it vanquished a banana-induced meltdown in seven seconds).

But another strategy some parents swear by is to do absolutely nothing and carry on like it isn’t happening.

One parent shared on Reddit how their toddler was refusing to eat dinner and then threw a hissy because she’d been told there were no other things to eat.

Despite throwing what her parent called “the biggest tantrum” they “ignored her, continued to eat and when we finished, we started cleaning up”.

Their child, meanwhile, calmed herself down, got back on her chair and ate her dinner.

The parent noted that “ignoring” their daughter’s tantrums – instead of making demands or trying to calm her down – has “worked really well”.

Other parents agreed this strategy has worked for them, too. “Our nearly 3yo [3-year-old] has been really pushing it lately. Ignoring has helped MY sanity as much as anything.”

Another said: “Ignoring also worked well with my toddler! They’re not really capable of using logic when they’re in a state like that so I realised pretty quickly that trying to reason with her or talk her down was only making it drag out longer.”

Therapist Heidi Soholt, who is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), said: “It’s not so much ignoring that is the key to being able to diffuse a tantrum – it’s more to do with being able to stay calm.

“By doing this you are communicating to your child that you can handle and contain their big emotions, and that they are safe.”

Young children in the throes of a tantrum often feel completely overwhelmed with emotion and need help to feel calm. Staying close, and calm, can help them regulate, added the therapist.

Dr Sasha Hall, senior educational and child psychologist, suggested that ignoring a tantrum can be an “effective strategy” in some situations, particularly when a child has learned that a certain behaviour results in extra attention, negotiation or a change in boundaries.

It might even reduce power struggles and help children learn that certain behaviours will not change their parent’s decision.

“However, it is important to distinguish between ignoring a behaviour and ignoring a child,” she warned.

“Young children learn about relationships through repeated interactions with their caregivers. During moments of distress, they are not only learning about rules and expectations, they are also learning what to expect from the adults around them.”

There is a risk of parents interpreting this approach as withdrawing connection whenever a child is upset – and that’s not advised.

“If children repeatedly experience adults becoming emotionally unavailable during moments of distress, they may begin to learn that expressing big feelings leads to disconnection,” said Dr Hall.

“Not all tantrums are the same. A child protesting a limit is different from a child who is overwhelmed, frightened, exhausted or struggling to regulate their emotions.”

In these situations, she suggested ignoring the behaviour may not address the underlying need.

For Dr Hall, the most effective response is to hold the boundary while remaining emotionally present. This could mean sitting nearby but staying firm in whatever it is they’re sad or angry about – whether that’s you not letting them have ice cream for dinner, or the fact you wouldn’t let them wee on your drive (yes I’m absolutely speaking from experience).

“While you certainly don’t need to be giving into your child’s demands, children do benefit from adults remaining emotionally available, predictable and responsive, even when they are holding a firm boundary,” she added.

Experts recommend checking in after a tantrum has passed to talk over what happened and what they could do to help manage their big feelings next time.