The cast of HBOs A Game of Thrones becomes ever more impressive
It all began with the casting of Sean Bean (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sharpe) in the HBO adaptation of George RR Martin’s A Game of Thrones. When Bean agreed to play the role of Lord Eddard Stark it sent out a message that this HBO adaptation was not going to be light-hearted Xena/Legend of the Seekers style of fantasy but a gritty a realistic drama employing actors of genuine repute.
The addition to the cast of Mark Addy (A Knights Tale, The Full Monty), Kit Harington (War Horse), Harry Lloyd (Doctor Who, Robin Hood) and Jennifer Ehle (The Real Thing) showed that this adaptation had every chance of being something rather special.
And this week came the news that Lena Headey (Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles) will play Cersei Lannister we thought it would be a good time to put together a list of the cast members so far confirmed.
Director & Writers
Thomas McCarthy – Director
David Benioff – Writer
George RR Martin – Writer
DB Weiss – Writer
Series Cast
- Harry Lloyd – Viserys Targaryen
- Mark Addy – Robert Baratheon
- Alfie Allen – Theon Greyjoy
- Sean Bean – Eddard Stark
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Jaime Lannister
- Peter Dinklage – Tyrion Lannister
- Jennifer Ehle – Catelyn Stark
- Jack Gleeson – Joffrey Baratheon
- Iain Glen – Ser Jorah Mormont
- Kit Harington – Jon Snow
- Richard Madden – Robb Stark
- Tamzin Merchant – Daenerys Targaryen
- Maisie Williams – Arya Stark
- Sophie Turner – Sansa Stark
I’m sure you’ll all agree that this is a pretty impressive cast. We are all looking forward to the pilot, let’s hope the script does the cast justice.
Posted: September 5th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: George RR Martin
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