Prime Video’s epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has signed on Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear, and Tanya Moodie for season two. The just-announced new cast members will be featured in recurring roles in the upcoming season. Prime Video did not provide any details on who Hinds, Kinnear, or Moodie are playing.
Season two is currently shooting in the UK.
J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay return as showrunners, guiding the series through the Second Age of Middle-earth, a period prior to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books. Payne, McKay, Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, and Gennifer Hutchinson serve as executive producers.
In December 2022, it was announced Ben Daniels (The Exorcist), Nia Towle (Persuasion), Gabriel Akuwudike (Hanna), Yasen “Zates” Atour (The Witcher), Amelia Kenworthy, and Nicholas Woodeson (Silent Witness) had been cast in recurring roles. That was followed by the news that Oliver Alvin-Wilson (The Bay), Stuart Bowman (The Pact), Gavi Singh Chera (The Undeclared War), William Chubb (Vampire Academy), Kevin Eldon (Game of Thrones), Will Keen (His Dark Materials), Selina Lo (Boss Level), and Calam Lynch (Bridgerton) had also signed on to take a trip to Middle-earth.
Ciarán Hinds earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in Belfast. Hinds’ credits also include Munich, Silence, There Will Be Blood, Justice League, and The Eclipse. In addition, Hinds played Mance Rayder on Game of Thrones and Julius Caesar on Rome.
Rory Kinnear was recently seen playing multiple characters in Alex Garland’s Men and as Admiral Chauncey Badminton in Our Flag Means Death. Additional credits include the Bond films – Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre – as well as The Imitation Game, Broken, and Bank of Dave.
Tanya Moodie earned the Royal Television Society’s Breakthrough Award for her work in Motherland. Moodie’s credits also include Tin Star, A Discovery of Witches, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Neverwhere.
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This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness.
Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared reemergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the farthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.
