Game Of Thrones Season 6: 14 New Cast Members You Need To Know About

7. Rebecca Benson

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The Actor: Having graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2011, actress Rebecca Benson has gone on to appear in TV crime dramas such as Vera and Shetland. She'll also be appearing in the forthcoming Macbeth film, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. 

She has also earned strong reviews for her stage work, being nominated for Best Female Performance at the Critics' Awards For Theatre In Scotland 2014, for her performance as Eli in the National Theatre of Scotland's Let The Right One In. 

The Role: She will be playing Talla Tarly, and the name should sound familiar as she's the sister of Samwell, and one of a number of his immediate family members we'll be meeting in season 6. Not an awful lot has been mentioned about the character outside of that, although the casting call did describe her as "kind, friendly and unpretentious." So a female Sam, basically. 

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