Ciaran Hinds Joins Game of Thrones

I can get behind this bit of casting news. Ciaran Hinds has snagged the role of Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall, in the third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Hinds’ film credits include Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Woman in Black, The Debt, and Munich. On television, he’s played Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome and Brian de Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe, and he’s currently playing Bud Hammond in the mini-series Political Animals.
 
EW broke the casting news, saying this about the role: “Rayder has united the disparate clans of the Far North behind a single mission: To attack The Wall. He’s been frequently referenced (though unseen) in the HBO hit fantasy drama’s first two seasons. In the second season finale, undercover Night’s Watchman Jon Snow (Kit Harington) was being taken to meet Rayder.”
 
Season three of Game of Thrones will premiere in March 2013.
 
Source: EW
 
—Posted by Rebecca Murray