Harry Potter Alum Jim Broadbent Joins Game Of Thrones Season 7

HBO has made their first major casting announcement for Game of Thrones Season 7, adding Academy Award-winning actor Jim Broadbent in an undisclosed role.

Broadbent's acting credits include performances in Time Bandits, Brazil, Bridget Jones's Diary, and he played Horace Slughorn in the Harry Potter movies. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 2001's Iris. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as the series lead of Longford.

HBO did not offer any details concerning Broadbent's role in the penultimate season of Game of Thrones. If we were to speculate, we'd say that anyone who can play a professor at Hogwarts would fit right in as a maester at the Citadel in Oldtown, which is where Samwell Tarly and Gilly ended up in Game of Thrones Season 6. Then again, Westeros is a big place, and Game of Thrones films in multiple locations, so don't take that idea as anything more than a guess.

Broadbent is the latest British actor to appear both in the Harry Potter universe and in Game of Thrones. Natalia Tena played Osha in Game of Thrones and was Tonks in the Harry Potter movies. David Bradley played both Walder Frey and the squib Hogwarts caretaker Filch. Ciarán Hinds played Mance Rayder, the King-Beyond-the-Wall, as well as Albus Dumbledore's brother, Aberforth.

HBO may not be saying much about Game of Thrones Season 7, but star Maisie Williams has. The actress who plays Arya Stark shared her thoughts on the seventh season being shorter than the previous six and warned fans that nothing will prepare them for what's coming.

Game of Thrones Season 7 premieres on HBO in 2017.

Source: EW