25 actors you forgot were on Game of Thrones

15. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Number of episodes: 2

Character name: Malko

Adewale Akinnoye-Agbaje is best known for playing Mr. Eco on LOST and Adebisi on Oz, which gives him a connection to HBO. More recently, he’s been onThe Fix, Ten Days in the Valley and American Odyssey. He’s one of those actors who stands out no matter where he shows up.

He appears on Game of Thrones in two episodes of the fifth season. He plays Malko, the captain of a slaving ship that captures Jorah Mormont and Tyrion Lannister while they’re trying to reach Meereen. Malko even orders that Tyrion’s be killed since he doesn’t seem to have much use as a potential slave, but Tyrion has a way with words and talks him out of it by convincing him — and stay with me here — that if he hopes to cut off Tyrion’s penis and sell it to a “cock merchant” (dwarf’s penises being known to have magical properties), he needs to keep Tyrion alive long enough for the merchant to see him and verify that the penis indeed came from a dwarf.

It is a relatively small role, but memorable. If it weren’t for Malko, Jorah and Tyrion may never have made it to Dany and been with her in Westeros in the final seasons.