The Onion Knight has a name and it is Liam Cunningham.
The latest addition to the cast of HBO's second season of "Game of Thrones," Cunningham ("Camelot," "Clash of the Titans") will play Davos Seaworth, a knight serving Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane, "John Adams"), Entertainment Weekly reports.
A former smuggler, Davos earned his title and his nickname during the war which saw Stannis' brother Robert steal the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms. Davos was able to get food to Stannis, who was under siege at the castle of Storm's End. After the war, Stannis knighted Davos, but cut the tips of his fingers as punishment for his life as a smuggler.
In the second novel of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, "A Clash of Kings," upon which season two will be based, Davos is one of two new point-of-view characters and it is through his eyes that readers get to see much of Stannis.
Cunningham is the fifth major casting announcement for season two after Dillane as Stannis, Carice van Houten ("Repo Men," "Valkyrie") as Melisandre, Gwendoline Christie ("The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus") as Brienne and Natalie Dormer ("The Tudors") as Margaery Tyrell.
The latest addition to the cast of HBO's second season of "Game of Thrones," Cunningham ("Camelot," "Clash of the Titans") will play Davos Seaworth, a knight serving Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane, "John Adams"), Entertainment Weekly reports.
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In the second novel of George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, "A Clash of Kings," upon which season two will be based, Davos is one of two new point-of-view characters and it is through his eyes that readers get to see much of Stannis.
Cunningham is the fifth major casting announcement for season two after Dillane as Stannis, Carice van Houten ("Repo Men," "Valkyrie") as Melisandre, Gwendoline Christie ("The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus") as Brienne and Natalie Dormer ("The Tudors") as Margaery Tyrell.
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