Tommy Flanagan Joins ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 3 As Ser Roderick Dustin

Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy, Gladiator) has joined the cast of HBO‘s fantasy drama series House of the Dragon for Season 3 in a key role.

Based on Martin’s Fire & Blood and set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon tells the story of House Targaryen.

Flanagan will star as Ser Roderick Dustin, a battle-hardened warlord of the north who leads a large contingent of veteran soldiers known as the Winter Wolves into battle at the Dance of the Dragons to support Rhaenyra Targaryen’s claim.

Flanagan joins the previously announced new cast member James Norton, who will portray Ormund Hightower in the new season. In Martin’s books, Dustin and Hightower eventually face off on opposing sides of the battle. Dustin is also known as “Roddy the Ruin.”

The series stars Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, Emma D’Arcy, Oivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, Eve Best, Fabien Frankel, Matthew Needham, Sonoya Mizuno, Tom Glynn-Carney, Ewan Mitchell, Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban and Jefferson Hall. Additional Season 2 cast includes Abubakar Salim, Gayle Rankin, Simon Russell Beale, Clinton Liberty, Jamie Kenna, Kieran Bew, Tom Bennett, Tom Taylor and Vincent Regan.

Martin and Ryan Condal, who also serves as showrunner, are co-creators and executive producers. Sara Hess, Alan Taylor, Melissa Bernstein, Kevin de la Noy, Loni Peristere and Vince Gerardis also executive produce.

Flanagan is best known for his roles in the films Gladiator, Braveheart and Guardians of the Galaxy and on TV, for playing Filip “Chibs” Telford in FX’s hit motorcycle drama Sons of Anarchy, a role he reprised in the spinoff series Mayans M.C.

Additional credits include Starz’s Power Book IV: Force, HBO’s Westworld; Peaky Blinders opposite Cillian Murphy for Netflix, Sand Castle opposite Henry Cavill and Glen Powell and Sin City for director Robert Rodriguez.

He next will be seen starring opposite Russell Crowe in the feature film Sleeping Dogs and in the Netflix limited series The Perfect Couple, opposite Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Dakota Fanning. Flanagan is repped by IAG, Albin Sikora and Yorn Levine Barnes.