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,