With A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms about to premiere, one of its leads has already landed a gig on a highly anticipated video game adaptation.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is just a few weeks away from its premiere on Sunday, Jan. 18, with fans eager to see how this prequel to Game of Thrones works out. It’s set to be one of the biggest fantasy projects of 2026, with a cast of mostly unknown actors ready to make a name for themselves.
Among them is Tanzyn Crawford as the Australian actress has a prime role in the series as Tanselle Too-Tall, a puppeteer performer who befriends the main heroes and a love interest for Ser Duncan (Peter Claffey). But that’s not the only genre project on the actress’s coming slate!
Deadline reports that Crawford has joined the cast of Netflix’s upcoming live-action Assassin’s Creed series. She joins previously cast leads Toby Wallace, Lola Petticrew, Zachary Hart and Laura Marcus. There’s no word on who she’ll be playing, but there's obviously some excitement given the potential in this show becoming the next big video game to TV hit.
For those who don’t know, Assassin’s Creed has become one of the biggest video game franchises in recent years. Beginning in 2007, the Ubisoft games have a very complex backstory but to boil it down, a person is given the ability to relive the life of an ancestor in past centuries who is part of a sect waging a secret war against an ancient conspiracy.
The games have been hailed for their amazing gameplay, the gorgeous graphics, storylines that take wild turns, and capturing time periods from the Crusades to feudal China to 18th-century America and France. Every installment has been a hit and the franchise shows no signs of slowing down.
The games were adapted for a 2016 movie starring Michael Fassbender that (keeping to a sad tradition) failed at the box office. Netflix making a series about it does make sense given the rise in popularity of video game adaptations such as Fallout. Netflix has the budget to capture the game’s mixture of action, fantastic time periods and a modern conspiracy edge that’s made them so popular.
There’s no word yet if the series will adapt a specific game or be an original story set in the same universe. Crawford would fit in well, either as a modern-day scientist, an Assassin, a person in the past or another character.
Thus it appears Crawford is about to become a genre favorite as between Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and a prime video game series, her star is swiftly on the rise!
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms premieres January 18, 2026, on HBO.