Willa Ford as Janice Michaels John Cenatiempo as Vincent Lamb Michael Beasley as Grady James Karen-Eileen Gordon as Florence Taylor Anthony Miller as Raymond "Ray-Ray" Mathis, a doorman at the Miramar Karen Garcia as Inez, Arthur Evans' nurse Shelby Fenner as Myrnna Catalina Rodriguez as Theresa Ricky Waugh as Barry "Cuda" Lansman Matt Ross as Jack Klein, State Attorney for Dade County Todd Allen Durkin as Douglas "Doug" Feehan Chad Gall as Ethan Bell Garrett Kruithof as Stout Gregg Weiner as Phillip "Phil" Weiss Jordan Woods-Robinson as Sterling Voss Avi Hoffman as Sidney "Sid" Raskin Sherilyn Fenn as Madame Renee Esai Morales as Carlos 'El Tiburon' Ruiz James Caan as Sybert "Sy" Berman, a Chicago-based mob boss Episodes Season 1 (2012) Season 2 (2013) Production Conception Magic City was created by Miami native Mitch Glazer, who wrote the series around his experiences growing up there: he once worked as a cabana boy in a Miami Beach hotel, his father was an electrical engineer at the city's grand hotels in the late 1950s, and he grew up listening to stories of the exploits of hotel staff and clientele. Many of the incidents Glazer relates in the series "are based on stories that happened, that I saw, or older brothers and sisters or my parents told me." As a journalist, he did extensive research on what was happening in the lobbies of hotels in late 1950s and early 1960s: "There’s wiretaps—tapes they’ve made public now—where the CIA gives Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli $300,000 and poison powder to kill [Fidel] Castro in the Boom Boom Room in the Fontainebleau Hotel," he said. Included in the series, Glazer states, will be Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities in Cuba and issues connected to the Civil Rights Movement. He first envisioned Magic City as a feature film, but said he quickly realized he had more stories to tell than would fit in a film. Glazer had written different versions of Magic City for years. He originally wrote and sold it to CBS, who eventually let it go to the Starz network. "CBS was really nice to me and generous in letting it go to Starz. It’s not a procedural, it’s not a franchise. It needs to be allowed to do the sexuality and violence and the things that were part of Miami Beach in the 1959", he said. In 2007, Chris Albrecht (subsequently Starz network's