The Emmy-winning British actor is joining Thrones season 6, EW has learned exclusively.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, Ian McShane has been cast in a mystery role.
All that being said, Game Of Thrones has never lacked in parts for older actors capable of dining grandly on its dialogue buffet, and there are a number of other announced roles McShane could take on comfortably.
It will be McShane’s first appearance on an HBO series since the Western drama “Deadwood”, for which he won a Golden Globe award in 2005 for his work as Al Swearengen. Who do you want him to play?
McShane, known for portraying bad guys, scoundrels and thieves on-screen, is now guesting in the third season of “Ray Donovan“.
His role in the popular medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones is being kept secret.
McShane should find himself right at home within the intricate brutality of “Thrones”.
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Production is already underway on the sixth series of the HBO show, which is likely to be aired in Spring 2016. His credits include “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides“, “Hercules“, “Cuban Fury“, “Jack and the Giant Slayer“, “Snow White and the Huntsman”, and “American Horror Story: Asylum“.
