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OCTOBER 08, 2015 3:47pm
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Harry Potter Spinoff 'Fantastic Beasts' Casts Ron Perlman

Eddie Redmayne is starring as Newt Scamander in the movie, with shooting already underway.
Ron Perlman has joined the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Warner Bros.' fantasy set in the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter.

The movie is currently shooting in England with Eddie Redmayne starring as Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magizoologist. (The events of Fantastic Beasts take place 70 years before Harry Potter reads Scamander’s book in his wizarding school.)

Plot details were not revealed, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Perlman will play a goblin.

THR earlier this week revealed that Humans star Gemma Chan, Selma actress Carmen Ejogo and Jon Voight recently joined the cast.

Also on the roll call: Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Dan Fogler and Samantha Morton.

Perlman starred in all but the last season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy and also starred in the recent Amazon series Hand of God. The fan-favorite actor, known for starring in the Hellboy movies, was most recently seen in Roland Emmerich’s civil rights drama Stonewall.

OCTOBER 05, 2015 11:58am
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'Harry Potter' Spin-Off 'Fantastic Beasts' Casts Jon Voight

Gemma Chan and Carmen Ejogo have also been cast in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' follow-up.


Gemma Chan, who stars in AMC's sci-fi thriller Humans, Selma actress Carmen Ejogo and Jon Voight have joined the cast of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Warner Bros.’s fantasy set in the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter.

The movie is currently shooting in England with Eddie Redmayne starring as Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magizoologist. (The events of Fantastic Beasts take place 70 years before Harry Potter reads Scamander’s book in his wizarding school.)

Among those already cast are Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, Dan Fogler and Samantha Morton.

David Yates is behind the camera as director working with a script penned by Rowling herself.

Character info for the latest trio to join the film was not revealed.

While Chan’s has primarily worked in television, her feature credits include appearances in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and London Fields, the latter a femme fatale thriller that made headlines in September when it was pulled from the line-up at the Toronto Film Festival due to a legal dispute. She is repped by UTA, Schachter Entertainment, and U.K.’s Independent Talent Group.

Ejogo, who played Coretta Scott King in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, will next be seen opposite Ethan Hawke in the upcoming Born To Be Blue, the biopic of Chet Baker. She is repped by ICM Partners, Management 360, and U.K.’s Conway van Gelder Grant.

Voight is the veteran actor who’s currently appearing in Showtime’s Ray Donovan. He is repped by CAA.

Updated Oct. 5, 3:40 to reflect that Humans is not a USA show.