French actor Dominique Pinon has been set to play Master Raymond in season two of Starz’s critically acclaimed drama series Outlander. Master Raymond is described as “a mysterious healer with a great deal of knowledge regarding secret matters, both political and occult. Though generally viewed with suspicion by his contemporaries, Master Raymond forms a special bond with Claire.”
Pinon’s credits include Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Micmacs, and Prodigious TS Spivet.
Production is underway in Scotland on season two of Outlander which is set to air in 2016. Outlander stars Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser, Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser, Tobias Menzies as Black Jack Randall/Frank Randall, Duncan Lacroix as Murtagh Fraser, and Graham McTavish as Dougal MacKenzie. Ronald D. Moore writes and executive produces Outlander based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling book series.
The Season 2 Plot:
Outlander is the story of a married combat nurse Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) from 1945 who gets transported back into the year 1743, and is forced to marry Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a young Scottish warrior. Season two of Outlander begins as Claire and Jamie arrive in France, hell-bent on infiltrating the Jacobite rebellion led by Prince Charles Stuart, and stopping the battle of Culloden. With the help of his cousin Jared (Robert Cavanah), a local wine merchant, Jamie and Claire are thrown into the lavish world of French society, where intrigue and parties are abundant, but political gain proves far less fruitful.
Altering the course of history presents challenges that begin to weigh on the very fabric of their relationship. However, armed with the knowledge of what lies ahead, Claire and Jamie must race to prevent a doomed Highland uprising, and the extinction of Scottish life as they know it.
