The Prime Video series has added Emmy winner Shohreh Aghdashloo to its cast. In The Wheel of Time ‘s third season, due in March, Aghdashloo ( The Expanse, House of Sand and Fog) will play Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, an important character in the fantasy novels by Robert Jordan on which the series is based.

For more than a year, rumors have swirled that Shohreh Aghdashloo, the actor who played foul-mouthed politician Crisjen Avasarala for six seasons on The Expanse, was joining the cast of Prime Video's fantasy show The Wheel of Time in a major role.

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,

Shohreh Aghdashloo will star in the upcoming third season of “The Wheel of Time” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned. It had long been rumored that Aghdashloo would appear in the series, but nothing had been confirmed until now.

Shohreh Aghdashloo has been tapped for a major role in "The Wheel of Time" Season 3. Aghdashloo will play Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan, a powerful member of the Aes Sedai sisterhood. Elaida is a member of the Red Ajah - the sect of the Aes Sedai tasked with hunting down men who can channel the One Power - and has a long history with Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and Siuan (Sophie Okonedo) that bubbles back to the surface upon her return to the