High Priest — Year One Character Profile

About High Priest

The zealous and ruthless religious leader of Sodom who orchestrates the city's oppressive rituals and attempts to sacrifice Maya and Eema to appease the gods during a famine.

Character Facts

Played by

Oliver Platt

Appears in

Year One (2009)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• High Priest — Conflict Arch Enemy — Zed (Jack Black)

  The High Priest represents the religious tyranny Zed must dismantle to save the captives.

• High Priest — Professional Soldier & Commander — Cain (David Cross)

  Cain operates as a subordinate guard within the High Priest's religious-military structure.

• High Priest — Alliance Religious & Political Rulers — King (Xander Berkeley)

  A symbiotic power structure combining religious authority with political control.

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More characters from Year One

• Zed (Jack Black)
• Oh (Michael Cera)
• Cain (David Cross)
• King (Xander Berkeley)
• Isaac (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)
• Sargon (Vinnie Jones)
• Adam (Harold Ramis)
• Abraham (Hank Azaria)
• Queen (Gia Carides)
• Zaftig the Eunuch (Kyle Gass)
• Enmebaragesi (Horatio Sanz)
• Eve (Rhoda Griffis)