Laurence O'Fuarain

O'Fuarain's screen career got moving fast after his 2014 graduation. Within a year he'd landed a role in season 5 of *Game of Thrones* (2015) — not a bad place to start, even if the show's sprawling cast meant most newcomers blinked and missed you. He followed that with *Rebellion* (2016), the Irish drama series covering the 1916 Easter Rising, and *The Secret Scripture* (2016), a film adaptation of Sebastian Barry's novel. That same year also brought *Vikings* season 5 (2017) and *Into the Badlands* (2017), two genre properties that kept him visible in the kind of action-heavy, period-adjacent work he'd come to be associated with. The 2018 slate was dense — *The Limit Of*, *Viking Destiny*, and *Black '47* all arrived that year, the last of which is a grim, well-regarded Irish famine-era thriller that deserves more attention than it typically gets. Then came the role that changed the conversation: Fjall in *The Witcher: Blood Origin* (2022, Netflix). Deadline covered his casting in March 2021, framing it as a lead role in what was then a highly anticipated prequel miniseries. The show had its critics, but O'Fuarain's performance — particularly in the quieter scenes where Fjall's grief sits just under the surface — was generally singled out as one of its stronger elements. Guy Ritchie's *The Gentlemen* (2024, Netflix) marked a tonal shift. Playing JP Ward in a show built around Ritchie's signature mix of crime, class, and dark comedy, O'Fuarain demonstrated he can do more than swing a sword. Looking ahead, he's cast as Thor in *The Sandman* (2025), with *Do Not Enter* (2025) and *The Dreadful* (2026) also on the horizon (IMDb). The genre range is widening. That's the story here.