Ciarán Hinds and two other actors join The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

The large cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is getting even bigger. Ciarán Hinds, Rory Kinnear and Tanya Moodie join the cast of the Prime Video series in recurring roles. The cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power already includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Maxim Baldry, Nazanin Boniadi, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Charles Edwards, Trystan Gravelle, Sir Lenny Henry, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Sam Hazeldine, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Lloyd Owen, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, Leon Wadham, Benjamin Walker, Daniel Weyman, and Sara Zwangobani.

The fantasy series is based on the work of J. R.R. Tolkien. Set millennia before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings movies, the story depicts key events in the Second Age of Middle-earth. Episodes for season two are now being filmed in the UK.



Acclaimed actor Ciarán Hinds (pictured) has had an illustrious career on both stage and screen. Hinds has been nominated for both an Oscar and a BAFTA Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role as 'Pop' in Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast. He starred in such films as Steven Spielberg's Munich, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and The Eclipse, a role for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival. He is also known for his voice role as Grand Pabbie the Troll King in the animated films Frozen and Frozen II.

The television audience knows Hinds from his roles as Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones (HBO) and Julius Caesar in Rome (HBO). He was recently featured in the comedy-drama series The Dry (BritBox).



Rory Kinnear (pictured) is an award-winning British actor, perhaps best known for his role as Bill Tanner in the James Bond films Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre. Kinnear recently starred in Alex Garland's Men, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a BIFA award.

Kinnear's series roles include Penny Dreadful (Sky Atlantic), Southcliffe (Channel 4, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror (Channel 4), and the drama Lucan (2013) (ITV) in which he played the title role. Currently, he can be seen in Taika Waititi's series Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max).



Tanya Moodie is an acclaimed British actress who won the Royal Television Society's Breakthrough Award for the role of Meg in the BAFTA Award-winning comedy series Motherland (BBC). Her numerous television roles include the role of Hunter in the 1990s Neil Gaimans mini-series Neverwhere (BBC) and roles in Tin Star (Sky Atlantic), A Discovery of Witches (Sky One), The Man Who Fell to Earth (Showtime) and Sherlock (BBC). Some of Moodie's recent film roles include J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker as General Parnadee and Sam Mendes' Empire of Light as Delia.

A premiere date for the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be announced later.