…And the high profile role of Mance Rayder, leader of the Wildlings, will go to acclaimed Irish actor Ciaran Hinds, this fella…

The veteran actor was most recently featured in Hammer’s excellent THE WOMAN IN BLACK, and the considerably less well received GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (which, to be brutally honest, he was pants in). 

GAME OF THRONES Season 3 returns to our screens April 2013.

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