‘Game of Thrones’ Season 5: Meet the New Players

Game of Thrones has indisputably the largest ensemble on television, with a cast of over 20 main players and dozens of recurring and guest actors. The show does manage to kill off major characters rather frequently – almost always to the shock and horror of the audience – but each new season adds more new faces than it loses.

For season 5 of Game of Thrones, there will be more new characters joining the cast than ever before. In part, this is due to showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss having killed a good number of the main cast in only four seasons, but also because the geography in Game of Thrones will expand and grow more even more.

In an effort to help make sense of the series’ ever-growing roster, we have compiled a guide to the new characters that we know are joining HBO’s Game of Thrones in season 5.

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