Harry Potter's Broadbent to Join 'Game of Thrones'
by EG
Some casting news for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones was announced this week. Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent will join the cast of HBO's fantasy series in its seventh season, but the specific role the actor will play hasn't yet been announced.
Broadbent won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his 2001 role in Iris, a biopic about the life of writer Iris Murdoch. He's also played Bridget's father in Bridget Jones's Diary and he had an award-winning role in Moulin Rouge. These high-profile roles all came in 2001, but Broadbent has been extremely active in the years since, becoming one of Britain's most recognized character actors.
Broadbent is no stranger to fantasy, either. He portrayed Professor Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter franchise, and he played Professor Kirke in The Chronicles of Narnia franchise.
He's most recently appeared in the sports biopic Eddie the Eagle and in this summer's The Legend of Tarzan.
The upcoming seventh season of Game of Thrones will be the series' next-to-last season, and it will consist of only seven episodes instead of the usual ten. The premiere date for season seven has not yet been announced, but HBO has announced that the season will start later than usual because production has been delayed.