Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Australian actress Essie Davis has signed onto Game of Thrones Season 6. Best known as the star of horror film The Babadook in 2014, Davis was also in the two Matrix sequels, and in the Aussie version of The Slap miniseries. Davis is reportedly playing as a member of a traveling theater troupe in Braavos that stages a play called "The Bloody Hand." Cersei Lannister is portayed by Davis during this play-within-the-show.
As season 6 production continues in Northern Ireland and Spain, the list of new cast members also continues to expand with a couple recent names leaking online via fans taking photos of the set for the Watchers on the Wall fan site. These cast members include Max von Sydow (as the Three-Eyed Raven), Ian Asbæk (Euron Greyjoy). Season 6 of Games of Thrones will return next spring.
TV Line said Essie Davis is an Australian actress who played beleaguered mom Amelia in the horror film The Babadook will join Games of Thrones Season 6, report EW.com. Davis will don the queen regent's blonde wig as part of a Braavosi theater troupe's drama. Davis also had roles in the Australian crime drama Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, two Matrix movies and the Australian version of The Slap.
Games of Thrones Season 6 castings include Richard E. Grant (Downton Abbey), Pilou Asbæk (The Borgias), Freddie Stroma (UnReal), and Max von Sydow (Minority Report).
TV Line reported that death of Stannis Baratheon has been greatly exaggerated in the Games of Thrones source material, at least. Author George R.R. Martin was recently asked by a fan via a comment left on Martin's LiveJournal, whether Robert's throne-hungry brother was still alive. The question was relevant at the end of the fifth season, which led viewers to believe - but did not actually show - that Stannis had been killed by a vengeful Brienne of Tarth. (One of the series's directors later confirmed that Stephen Dillane's character was, indeed, dead.)