Shohreh Aghdashloo

Meera Fox

Shohreh Aghdashloo will star in the upcoming third season of “The Wheel of Time” at Amazon Prime Video, Variety has learned.

It had long been rumored that Aghdashloo would appear in the series, but nothing had been confirmed until now. She will play Elaida do Avriny a’Roihan, one of the Aes Sedai like Rosamund Pike’s character, Moiraine Damodred.

Elaida is further described as “a ruthlessly powerful Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah, as proficient in politicking as she is in channeling. She has a deep history with Moiraine (Pike) and Siuan (Sophie Okonedo), and scores to settle with both of them when she returns to the White Tower. Elaida is someone who believes in ends over means, and is willing to do anything to achieve what she envisions to be the greater good.”

Along with the aforementioned Pike and Okonedo, Aghdashloo will appear alongside fellow “Wheel of Time” cast members Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski, Zoë Robins, Madeleine Madden, Marcus Rutherford, Dónal Finn, Ceara Coveney, Kate Fleetwood, Natasha O’Keeffe, Ayoola Smart, and Kae Alexander.

Aghdashloo’s recent TV credits include the hit HBO series “The Penguin,” the Max series “The Flight Attendant,” and the Prime Video series “The Expanse.” She won an Emmy Award in 2009 for her role in the miniseries “House of Saddam.” In film, Aghdashloo got an Academy Award nomination for “The House of Sand and Fog” in 2004. She is also known for her role in films like “”The Chess Game of the Wind,” “The Nativity Story,” “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” and “”The Lake House.”

She is repped by CAA, The Artists Partnership, and Round Table Entertainment.

As previously announced, “The Wheel of Time” Season 3 will debut on March 13. The series is based on the Robert Jordan book series of the same name. Rafe Judkins adapted the books for the screen and serves as executive producer and showrunner. Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon of iwot productions, Ted Field of Radar Pictures, Mike Weber, Marigo Kehoe, Ciaran Donnelly, Justine Juel Gillmer, Dave Hill, and Pike also serve as executive producers. The series  is co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios.