Happy first WoT Wednesday of 2025!

Today, Prime Video officially revealed five new cast members debuting in Season 3 of The Wheel of Time!

Isabella Bucceri is Faile Bashere, a Hunter of the Horn

Nukâka Coster-Waldau is Bair, eldest Wise One of the Taardad Aiel

Salóme Gunnarsdóttir is Melaine, Wise One of the Taardad Aiel 

Björn Landberg is Rhuarc, Clan Chief of the Taardad Aiel

Synnøve Macody Lund is Melindhra of the Taardad Aiel

Isabella Bucceri

An exciting emerging talent, Isabella Bucceri moved from Australia to the UK in 2022 and has already begun to steadily build her resume with credits including the feature films Finally Me, Everything in Between, and Threshold. 

Her character, Faile Bashere, similarly left her home in pursuit of glory. Born in the Borderland nation of Saldaea, Faile left her old life behind and took the oath to become a 'Hunter of the Horn', one who seeks to find The Horn of Valere. Her adventure to locate this treasured relic has led her to a familiar place, The Two Rivers.

Nukâka Coster-Waldau

Nukâka Coster-Waldau is a Danish-Greenlandic actor born in Greenland, and comes with an impressiv resume on stage, as an actress, dancer, and singer. Coster-Waldau previously starred in the thriller series Thin Ice directed by Cecilie A. Mosli, and Anori by director-writer Pipaluk K. Jørgensen, as well as the critically acclaimed theatre production Plus Minus Null in 2011/12, staged by the Swiss director Christoph Marthaler.

Her wealth of experience will be easily matched, as she portrays the Aiel called Bair, the eldest of the Wise Ones of the Taardad Aiel. Her authority and wisdom are held in high regard among Wise Ones, even higher than that of the Clan Chief. If that was not enough for this formidable woman, Bair also has the ability to channel the One Power, as well as an uncommon ability pertaining to the world of dreams. 

Salóme Gunnarsdóttir

Icelandic actress Salóme Gunnarsdóttir has built a robust resume of memorable roles across television, film and theater. Her most recent television credits include The Lazarus Project, The Reunion, Pennyworth, Knightfall, Legends, The Lava Field, and Stelpurnar 5.

Gunnarsdóttir’s character is called Melaine, also a Wise One of the Taardad Aiel. Well respected in her own right, Melaine does not actually have the ability to channel the One Power at all. Despite lacking this access, she does still share the same uncommon ability in the world of dreams that Bair also has.  

Björn Landberg

Kevin Björn Wolfgang Kraus, perhaps a Gleeman in disguise, was born in Berlin, Germany. His artist name, Björn Landberg, was created in 2015 when he started his career as a German pop singer for Electrola and Universal Music, with the album Björn Landberg. It was during this time that he realized he wanted to become both a professional actor and singer. 

Since then, he has portrayed ‘Gaston’ in the German stage production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, he’s used his stage combat skills as the modern gladiator in a German experimental TV show named Galileo Mystery, and began dubbing as a singer in Disney’s Coco for Benjamin Bratt, as ‘Enrico de la Cruz’ for Andy Garcia in Barb and Star go to Vista del Mar, for Jay Hernandez in Bright, Omar Sy in X-Men, Daniel Sunjata in Power Book II: Ghost, Greg Wise in Strange Angel, Victor Webster in Working Mums, Adam Copeland in Vikings and Malcolm Barrett in The Boys and Preacher. 

More recently, in 2023, he founded Dreamwalk Audio, an audio production company for podcasts, audio books, voice-over and advertising, and in January 2025, ‘Bed on the Beach,’ the English version of ‘Bett am Strand,’ will be published. In May 2024, Landberg also published the podcast ‘Mutter Natur,’ featuring lovingly arranged nature sounds, gentle music, and his soothing voice.

Impressed yet? Good, that’s a natural reaction when you’re in the presence of Rhuarc, the Clan Chief of the Taardad Aiel. Certainly a book-reader fan favorite, Rhuarc carries much respect among the Aiel in his own right. As a Clan Chief, Rhuarc was able to complete the perilous Clan Chief trial in the city of Rhuidean, a trial very few return from. As such, he knows what mysteries lie within the fog of that city, though he is forbidden to discuss it with any who have not seen what he has seen. 

Synnøve Macody Lund

Synnøve Macody Lund is a Norwegian actress, director, and journalist. She made her acting debut in 2011, as the lead in Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters, directed by Academy Award-nominated Morten Tyldum. Since then, she has appeared in projects such as The Girl in the Spider's Web, Riviera, and the popular Netflix series Ragnarok (2020-2023), captivating audiences over multiple seasons. Most recently, Macody Lund starred in the Prime Video series Everybody Loves Diamonds, and played fan-favorite Cecilia Pederson in the horror blockbuster film, Saw X.

Macody Lund gets to play another fan favorite, though with a new sprinkle of spice that will entice even a knowledgeable book reader. Her character is Melindhra, an Aiel warrior with a thing for pretty eyes. Per the press release from Prime Video, Melindhra is “a Malkieri survivor who was taken in and raised by the Taardad Aiel”. 

The fallen kingdom of Malkier should sound familiar to a show-only fan, as the lost home to the uncrowned king Lan Mandragoran. After Malkier fell to the encroaching blight, refugees who survived could be found scattered across the Borderland nations. 

Malkieri survivors within the Aiel is an unexplored concept in the books, however Lan himself does carry an almost mythical status among the Aiel, many referring to him, in the Old Tongue, as “Aan’allein” which means “He who walks alone” or “The Man that is an entire people”.

Even with my own knowledge of the books, the unknowns around Melindhra already have captured my attention and my interests in a major way. 

The Wheel of Time Season 3 premieres March 13th 2025, on Prime Video.