HARRY POTTER Actor Joining GAME OF THRONES For Season 6

Actor Freddie Stroma, who played Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter franchise and starred on the Lifetime breakout hit UnREAL earlier this summer, is heading to Westeros.

THR reports that Stroma has joined the cast of HBO's Game of Thrones and will play Samwell Tarley's younger brother Dickon in the show's sixth season. I'm only a couple of hundred pages into the fourth novel in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, so I haven't come across this character yet myself, and he hasn't appeared in the show yet either, but apparently not much is revealed about him in the books.

The last we saw of Samwell Tarley, he was heading to Oldtown with Gilly and her baby to become a maester at Jon Snow's request, so I imagine they'll run into Dickon during their travels or maybe make a stop at Sam's childhood home, Horn Hill. It hasn't yet been revealed who is playing Randyll Tarley, Sam's father, but it's possible that Deadwood alum Ian McShane will portray that character since he's said to have a small but important role in the next season.

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