Yahoo Lifestyle Shohreh Aghdashloo Joins Wheel of Time Season 3 as ‘Ruthlessly Powerful’ Elaida
Fresh off her run on The Penguin, Emmy Award winner Shohreh Aghdashloo has been announced as a Season 3 cast addition to Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time.
Aghdashloo joins series lead Rosamund Pike in portraying one of the powerful Aes Sedai — specifically, Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, a highly anticipated character from Robert Jordan’s fantasy novels upon which the TV series is based.
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Elaida is described as “a ruthlessly powerful Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah, as proficient in politicking as she is in channeling. She has a deep history with Moiraine (Pike) and Siuan (Sophie Okonedo), and scores to settle with both of them when she returns to the White Tower.”
Elaida is someone “who believes in ends over means,” the description continues, “and is willing to do anything to achieve what she envisions to be the greater good.”
At the end of Wheel of Time Season 2, Rand (Josha Stradowski) after defeating Ishamael reunited with his friends at Falme and was declared the Dragon Reborn. But in Season 3 (premiering Thursday, March 13, 2025), “the threats against the Light are multiplying,” the official synopsis tells us. “The White Tower stands divided, the Black Ajah run free, old enemies return to the Two Rivers, and the remaining Forsaken are in hot pursuit of the Dragon… including Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe), whose relationship with Rand will mark a crucial choice between Light and Dark for them both.”
In addition to The Penguin, Aghdashloo’s previous TV credits include The Expanse, The Flight Attendant, The Punisher, Grimm, the HBO miniseries House of Saddam (for which she won her Emmy) and Season 4 of 24.
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