Jim Broadbent joins Game Of Thrones for 'significant role' in seventh season of smash hit show

Jim Broadbent has signed up for the forthcoming seventh season of Game Of Thrones. 

The 67-year-old British actor will play a 'significant role' in the popular HBO series, screened in the UK on Sky Atlantic.
However the details of his character are yet to have been revealed, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The forthcoming seventh season is to be filmed in Iceland, Spain and Northern Ireland and the seven episodes, three short of the usual 10-episode series, will premiere next summer. Jim starred as Horace Slughorn in the sixth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the final film in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, and he is not the first star from the wizard movies to make the move to Westeros.

David Bradley played Argus Filch in the Harry Potter film series before going on to play the evil Walder Frey in Game of Thrones.