Game of Thrones Season 6 New Characters and Casting Summary 

has completed the filming of season 6, I thought it would be good to take stock what we know of the new characters.

I’ve avoided including major spoilers in the summaries below, and skipped mentioning who the new characters would be interacting with, for the most part. However, some of the character descriptions are somewhat spoiler-y by their nature, so use your own judgment. You may not want to know who is appearing in flashbacks, for example, so consider that before you proceed any further! Linked posts may also contain spoilers so check out the warnings on each post you visit.

We’ll be looking at the new characters and casting, and tossing out whatever info we have on lingering casting mysteries.

Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk): Theon’s uncle and an “infamous pirate who has terrorized seas all around the world,” according to the

casting notice. He’s “cunning, ruthless, with a touch of madness.” We broke the news of his casting on September 1st, and shortly afterward, HBO officially confirmed it. Euron is likely to be the biggest new character in season 6.

Aeron Greyjoy: Sources tell us that Euron’s Drowned Priest brother (another uncle of Theon’s) will be appearing in season 6, but his casting is unknown at this time.

Rugged Pirate: This character stands up in a crowd, makes himself heard, and has a lot of forceful dialogue in a scene with leading cast members. He was scheduled to shoot the same week in Northern Ireland as the filming with Euron and Aeron.

Smalljon Umber (Dean S. Jagger): Smalljon is a lord in the North, a massive bear of a man with “a hatred that runs deep.” He’s the son of Greatjon Umber, whom we met in season 1. We confirmed Jagger’s casting with a reader’s help after a photo turned up on Instagram.

Lord Karstark: The new Lord Karstark is intimidating, ruthless and calculating, according to his casting notice, and we’ll see him in 3 episodes next season. The role’s casting is unknown at present.

Fletcher: He’s a fat Northern nobleman in his 60’s who makes a stirring speech. Fletcher may not be the character’s real name.

Boyce: He’s a callow young Northern nobleman in his 20’s who has been thrust into a position of power before he is ready. He has a couple speeches and was scheduled to film on the same day as Fletcher.

Bolton officers: played by Andrew Bryan and Tristan Heanue

Young Hodor. This part is most likely played by Sam Coleman though it’s not officially confirmed at this time.

Young Ned (Sebastian Croft): He’ll be appearing in scenes where he spars with a wooden sword.

A reliable source confirms for us that we’ll be seeing at least one Stark family flashback, with Ned’s younger siblings Benjen and Lyanna present, as well as his father Rickard Stark, and Old Nan (possibly the Housemaid and the alpha male patriarch mentioned in this casting call).

Three-Eyed Raven (Max von Sydow):  The character was introduced in season 4, but next season, the legendary von Sydow is taking over the role of Bran’s mysterious man in the tree.

osted a casting notice for a young woman approx. 18-22 years old of any ethnicity. The actress needs to be about 5 ft tall or shorter, with “striking facial features,” eyes that are as far apart if possible, and someone with a child-like physique who has the ability to handle action scenes as well. With a description so specific, they can only be looking for another Child of the Forest.

Randyll Tarly (James Faulkner): Samwell’s disapproving father, who is described as “one of the greatest soldiers in Westeros- a humorless martinet, severe and intimidating.” We shared the casting of Randyll, Melessa and Talla on Sept. 16th, which HBO confirmed the next day.

Melessa Tarly (Samantha Spiro): Sam’s sweet mother, she has a soft spot for him.

Dickon Tarly (Freddie Stroma): Sam’s younger brother is athletic and an excellent swordsman, though not particularly bright. He’s Randyll’s favorite child.

Talla Tarly (Rebecca Benson) Sam’s sister, she’s a “kind, friendly and unpretentious woman,” according to her description.

Ser Alfred Hunrith (Eddie Eyre): Eyre’s Spotlight CV for a time stated that he was playing a character named this, but the entry has since been scrubbed to simply confirm his appearance on the show, no role disclosed.

Rowland Selwyn (Luke Roberts):  In August, a WotW reader claimed that Roberts was playing the Legendary Fighter (believed to be Arthur Dayne), and also said, “Luke Roberts has been in training for weeks and was joined last week by Eddie Eyre and Rob Aramayo.” At the time of the comment, Aramayo’s casting was unannounced. Roberts’ agency CV states his character name is Rowland Selwyn now.

There’s a question of whether or not these character names are legitimate or ruses used to thrown fans off the scent, so take them with a grain of salt. Common opinion points toward the three characters actually being young Ned Stark, Ser Arthur Dayne and Howland Reed. The actors were spotted around the filming area of the Tower of Joy, however, so we are confident they’re the ToJ characters. There could be other actors involved that we’re not aware of at this point, and fans continue to debate which actor is playing which role.

Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men will be making a cameo appearance in Braavos, so look out for that.

We also have The Theater Troupe, appearing in 3 episodes-

Grand Theatre Actor/Manager (Richard E. Grant) –  He’s the “larger-than-life leader of a troupe of actors.” He sounds like Izembaro from the novels. He is a “rather nasty to his company when off-stage.” Grant’s role was confirmed through set photos.

Leading Actress (Essie Davis) – She plays Cersei in the troupe’s play. She’s a “fun, charismatic, rum-drinking” type, according to the casting notice. Fans identified Davis in costume on set.

Leading Theatre Character Actor/Play Ned (Kevin Eldon): The character’s a flamboyant caricaturist in the troupe. Again, it was WotW readers who identified the actor through set photos.

Young Blond Juvenile Lead/Play Joffrey (Actor name unknown): He’s sweet, but his stage acting probably isn’t very good.

There is also a Smart Male Theatregoer, described as being in his 40’s or 50’s. They’re looking for a “smart, posh-looking man to play a well-to-do audience member in a theatre.”

Melanie Liburd (Red Priestess): The beautiful priestess was mentioned in the first casting call, and spotted filming in Spain.

Eddie Jackson: His specific role is unknown but the actor filmed with Enzo Cilenti (Yezzan) and George Georgiou (Razdal) in Spain.

Sabina Arthur (Meereen Mother): Possibly the starving mother with a child mentioned in a casting call.

announced Naufahu’s casting in October. The actor’s CV confirms he’s playing Jhaqo, a character from the novels. His role was confirmed to be part of a multi-episode arc. That was most likely his

Khal Rhalko (Andrei Claude): His Spotlight CV confirmed his casting as another khal.

Elie Haddad: The actor’s casting came to light when he posted a photo of a script page from a Dothraki scene in November.

Chuku Modu: Modu posted photos from a Spanish Dothraki location and was photographed with the other Dothraki actors socializing after-hours. His specific role is unknown.

Staz Nair: He was confirmed to be cast, and the actor has also been photographed with other Dothraki-playing actors a great deal over the past couple months.

Diogo Sales: Sales is credited on his CV as a bloodrider for season 6.

Souad Faress (High Priestess): The actress’s CV was updated to say she was “currently filming in Spain” while

was heavily involved in Dothraki filming in Spain in October.  Looks-wise, she fits the bill for a Dothraki woman and could be a dosh khaleen at the temple. She could still turn out to be a High Priestess of a different sort, however.

There are parts out there still where we don’t know which actors are playing them. We saw casting notices for a Young Widow and a Quirky Young Warrior. The actors we’ve seen so far don’t fit the bill for the physically slight and short warrior, so unless they went a different route with that character, we haven’t yet found the actor playing this Dothraki role.

There was also a casting notice out for several Warrior Widows.

There have been multiple casting notices put out this year for Dothraki fighters including Qhogo and Akrat in the second major list. They were described as successful young warriors who are tall and confident, with swagger.

as joining GoT in a role with a “relatively small amount of screen-time” but that was still of “key importance.” Our own sources have confirmed that he is not Aeron Greyjoy. We further learned that McShane plays a character who has a scene with the outlaw band mentioned in the 2nd casting call. He may be the priest (possibly an equivalent to Septon Meribald or Elder Brother) mentioned in the first casting notice list.

Lachlan: He’s the leader of a group of renegades who have turned on the land that they swore to protect. They now extorting the poor and vulnerable. The outlaw band appears in 2 episodes. The Riverlands is a likely setting for this storyline.

Flynn (Ricky Champ): We uncovered Champ’s casting as a member of Lachlan’s band of renegades.

Japeth: A lieutenant of the outlaw band, he’s a “rough-and-ready type.”

Icelandic news reported the casting of Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson in season 6. Given his interactions, it seems likely that he may be part of the outlaw story but it’s unconfirmed.

Bower: He is “a powerless servant, numb to the horror he serves.” He’s filming around one of the days that the outlaw members are so he may be connected to them. He appears in one episode.

Old Lady (Margaret Jackman): Her Spotlight CV lists Mark Mylod as her director.

Westerosi Sea Captain (Kevin Horsham):  The actor’s CastingCallPro listing. From a Mark Mylod episode, filmed in Girona, Spain.

Kesh (Michael Heath): He’s credited for a Daniel Sackheim episode. The character name isn’t one from the books.

Fergus Leathem: His role is unknown. He filmed in August.

Michael Nevin: His agency posted that the child actor would be filming for 2 weeks on

Robert Render: His casting surfaced online a few months ago. A source of ours says the actor may have a small role in the Iron Islands.

Pale Young Man (Adam Turns):  This casting popped up on a CV. It does say season 5, but given how recently he tweeted about joining the cast, it’s safe to assume he meant season 6. He’s credited for a Mylod episode.

Michael Patrick: Alex Cusack Management posted in November that their client was currently filming GoT, but didn’t mention the character.

Robert Fawsitt, Dermot Ward and Aron Hegarty: On November 2nd, the Castannettenow agency posted that their three clients were are all shooting in

Season 6 that week and the next. Their roles are unconfirmed.

Gary Wales: The actor is listed as a “Healtor Troop” for episodes 5 and 6 of the new season on IMDb. The name Healtor is odd, but we heard a few months ago from a source that GoT had been using a name similar to this as a fake/code name for Freys during production. This isn’t 100% solid though.

Sally Mortemore: Her CV lists her as Well-Heeled Lady 2 in a Jack Bender episode.

Matt Faris: Universal Artists agency tweeted that Faris was cast back in September but his role is unknown.

Roles With Unknown Casting, Unknown Storyline

Hunter: He’s a rough army officer on the hunt appearing in an action scene with main cast, in one episode.

Submissive Maester: The show’s casting a maester in his twenties- a timid young maester. He’s decent but has trouble standing up to others. He appears in one episode. Speculation and book knowledge points to this one being involved in either Sam or Euron’s storyline but there’s nothing confirmed.

Green Recruit: A young man with one line and one day of filming in August. A Night’s Watch recruit or for something else?

Sympathizer 1, 2 & 3: These are rough military types, with one day of filming.

Hapless Son: He’s the hapless sly son of a cruel father, in his late 30’s. He appears in three episodes. GoT was looking for very specific features- a long nose, skeletal features and a bit sly – to play a son who is unable to live up to the demands of his savage father. He has scenes with lots of the leading cast and a great storyline. We believe this may be a Frey son, but it’s unconfirmed and no casting was ever announced or discovered for this part.

was looking for someone white-haired with aristocratic features, and capable of great intensity, with natural authority. The part required a couple days’ filming but was described as “impactful” nonetheless. He shot the week commencing

Haggard-looking Lord: in his fifties. He’s the lord of a noble house, intelligent, wry, incisive and articulate. He’s “a hard man and a realist. They mention that he has a good and long scene in which it’s mostly the haggard-looking lord talking the entire time. The character was scheduled to shoot the first two weeks of December in Northern Ireland. They did specify appearance as “white” for the character, so it’s safe to guess he is from Westeros, north of Dorne.

Captain of the Tower: Aged 35 – 45. The captain’s in charge of the security of a castle, an able soldier, commanding and capable. He has a lot of dialogue in a scene where he’s with his superiors and has to make a difficult decision. It’s a one-scene part with leading cast. The role shot for one week, commencing December 2nd in Northern Ireland.

Young Stunner: Aged 18 – 20. She’s a stunner of a brunette. The actress has a couple of scenes, and a great final scene where there is a major twist.  This role shot the week of August 5th in Belfast. It’s theorized that she might be Lyanna Stark, and the scene was perhaps an interior scene for the Tower of Joy.

Sublime courtesan: Aged 20 – 25. This beautiful courtesan appears at a party where a high-born woman has employed her services. The role was scheduled to shoot around the week of September 15th.

There will be more casting confirmations to come, as CVs are updated and more info trickles out. And in another month or so, we can look forward to a full trailer for season 6!

Thanks to Greenjones and AlCasino Royale for their help, and a big thanks to Anguissette for maintaining the Season 6 Casting Compendium, which made this post a lot easier!

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Yay, it’s been a while since I’ve gotten one of those.

Edit: actually, 7 minutes away. Where is everyone??

Sunday before Christmas. Hopefully they’re busy.

Ha ha, yes – keep forgetting we’re on different time zones!

Yeh this place seems very quiet today. Great to hear about the tower of joy scenes R+L=J coming our way

I’m happy to say I’m hunkered down where it’s warm and dry (it’s a chilly and rainy Northern California day). All my shopping is finished, what needs to be shipped has been shipped, with the exception of a small box I need to take to the Post Office in the morning, and I’m relaxing and enjoying not having much to do.

It always amazes me how huge the cast is and how D&D are able to cram everyone into 10 episodes. Wish there could be more episodes but I get the issues of time constraints, budget, and such. S06 sounds like it’s going to be incredible.

Supposed to get snow here in the NW xmas eve and day! It would be nice but I am highly skeptical that winter is actually coming. So much raaaaain. O_o

I think Michael Nevin will be young Benjen. I hope the distiguished man is a character in the Citadel since we have heard so little about that storyline.

Seven Blessing to Sue and the others who keep us informed! I’m so happy every time TOJ is mentioned and I can hardly wait for the dialogue between the brunette stunner and her brother! But I’d so much like to let us have a glimpse of Rhaegar! Apparently no news about casting his part

I was sceptical about Pilou as Euron at first, but then i watched Borgen. I am convinced that he is totally awesome and has the chops to play Euron.

Damn it. I think I love him in a Renly/Loras way. He is so good.

I was thinking, now that filming’s done, there’s remarkably little that has to do with King’s Landing there; nor did we get all that much in the way of filming info for KL either. Mostly it was just the big setpiece at the Great Sept of Baelor at the midpoint of the season.

Gosh have we ever had so much information for the season ahead? great job Sue and the rest of WOTW, thank you all so much!!

Now someone who has a sense of logic and structure needs to match these castings with directors and episodes and come up with a rough sketch or outline of the major possible plot points/locations in each episode, so we get a sense of flow…that is normally not me at all, but maybe next week when I’m on holiday I’ll give it a go!

ETA: And then the guessing of the episode titles. that’s always my favorite part of pre-season guessing!

I just read a nice interview with him. GoT is mentioned in passing, but it’s mostly about Borgen and his upcoming film, A War.

I’m here, for a minute or two. Couldn’t go a day without checking in at least once.

I can’t wait to find out who McShane is playing. For an actor of his merit and talent to accept a role with a “relatively small amount of screen-time” but that was still of “key importance,” even if it is GoT, the role must be terrific. Can’t wait see what he does, whatever it is.

Also looking forward to seeing what James Faulkner does with Randyll Tarly. Faulkner does a memorable imperious, withering gaze. I hope Sam will be shown to stand up to him. It will be nice to see Sam interact with someone who loves him, though, like his mother and sister, and see how/if they take to Gilly.

Surprised to see that the theater troupe will be in 3 episodes. Didn’t read the books that far, but from what I’ve gleaned just from reading all that’s been written by the book readers on here

Arya will be interacting a great deal with them.

I’m always interested in what’s going to happen to Arya, and how she’ll get out of the trouble she always finds herself in. Hopefully, the coming season will be more active for her, and not like last, with so much time showing her sweeping floors.

Happy Holidays to all of you. You have made the months since the Season 5 finale just fly by. I’m looking forward to joining all of you as the New Year and the new season begins.

Could any of these characters be from Casterly Rock?I’m so ready to see that beast of a city.

Also, is House Baratheon now totally extinguished (except for Gendry, who hasn’t to my knowledge been legitimized))?

Kind of annoying how almost every character has a fake name this season. These aren’t the Pentagon Papers.

I would like Gendry to be legitimized. But who can do it? The real Baratheons are gone and what king would do that?

was not at the Kingsmoot. If he wasn’t at the Kingsmoot, there’s really no way he was in season 6. And the physical description is way off for him.

Awesome, you guys really have helped the time fly by with all these news!

Would you be willing to do a similar list of all the characters returning who we didn’t see in season 5 or before?

Great job WOTW esp. Sue in keeping the wait for S6, these past months, bearable.I am sure next three months will be same.Thanks!

Don’t know, but Queen Margaery tends to make decisions for harmony’s sake, so maybe her.

Can’t wait to see how Izembaro’s theatre troupe comes across

Also, I wonder how Randyll Tarly is integrated in Sam’s arc? Is he just part of another awkward family dinner

or does he have a larger role with the Tyrells?

Victarion’s father died a long time ago. “The Hapless Son” sounds like a weird way to describe him.

Could any of these characters be from Casterly Rock? I’m so ready to see that beast of a city.

CR wouldn’t fit in any of the current storylines. If it appears, it would be as a cameo preparing it for the following season, like Braavos in S4 and Volantis in S5. And believe me, no one wants to see CR more than I do.

Also, is House Baratheon now totally extinguished (except for Gendry, who hasn’t to my knowledge been legitimized))?

Legally speaking, Tommen is a Baratheon, but no other people with the Baratheon surname exists. Gendry can only be legitimized by a king. And who would want to legitimize him anyway? He doesn’t have the proper training or education to be a lord, much less a king.

Here in the North (Ottawa), we still got no snow, and its looking like 14 degrees Celsius for Christmas eve… so around 58 degrees F…. which is NOT normal at all. And I am extremely fine with it

Could Aeron Greyjoy and the Rugged Pirate be the same role?

No. We’ve heard the rugged pirate is just a minor role to

I heard a while back that there was a casting call for some kind of high priest going around but I never got to see it. That might have been the casting notice for Aeron. Hard to say without seeing it.

Excellent summary post. Nice to have a refresh on who will be joining. I’m certainly looking forward to seeing many of the new additions.

If the ”Young Stunner” is not Lyanna, then i’ll eat my dick.

CR wouldn’t fit in any of the current storylines. If it appears, it would be as a cameo preparing it for the following season, like Braavos in S4 and Volantis in S5.

Hey enjoy that mild weather! Good hiking weather if it’s sunny out I say! 😀

What I want to know is who the show is planning to cast in a quentyn type role. Somebody’s got to release the other two dragons for the battle of mereen.

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