HBO has made Natalie Dormer its first casting hire for the second season of the hit fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. Inside TV | EW reports the actress will play Margaery Tyrell:
Dormer will play Margaery Tyrell, a (minor spoiler alert) beautiful and shrewd young woman from the influential House Tyrell. She’s pledged to marry the late King Robert’s brother, Renly Baratheon, as part of House Tyrell’s support for his bid to seize the Iron Throne from King Joffrey.