Australian actor David Berry will be playing the character from the Voyager novel...
It may be a few more centuries until Outlander Season 3 hits our TV screens, but that doesn't mean we can't endure Droughtlander together with obsessive discussion of any and all news that comes out of the Starz camp.
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The latest tidbit? Outlander has cast Australian actor David Berry (A Place to Call Home) in the important season three role of Lord John William Grey, the former British soldier turned governor of Ardsmuir Prison who will become friends with Jamie while the latter is imprisoned under Lord John's care. Here's the full character description from Starz...
Lord John William Grey is a steadfast and honorable British subject, torn between a finely-honed sense of familial duty and a strong moral compass of right and wrong. He is boyishly handsome with an upper class rearing — the consummate gentleman. However, a scandal from his past has relegated Lord John to an undesirable position as governor of a desolate prison in Northern Scotland.
This won't be the first time we've seen Lord John on the show. He popped up as his 16-year-old self (played by Oscar Kennedy) in season two when he tried to arrest Red Jamie, only to give the Jacobite army vital information about the nearby English army in exchange for Claire's perceived-to-be-in-danger honor. Exhibit A...
When we next meet Lord John, he is a decade older, but still remembers his earlier encounter with Jamie. His sense of honor is still there, though, and the two become friends, despite their different circumstances. Lord John is a popular book character who has his own spinoff novellas series in the Lord John stories.
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