Was looking around at actresses for a role playing character idea and stumbled across Michelle Forbes. Man, she could act the sh** out of Elaida if they were so inclined to cast her.
Right? And he can sing, and be both funny and serious.
And oooh, yes - Rene Auberjonois is an amazing actor! Sadly he and Andrew Robinson (Garrick) are both prob too old at this point, but I'd watch either of them in anything.
I always tend to think of the Two Rivers folk as being Welsh rather than English, and the Welsh can be rather swarthy in comparison to the rest of the Brits. Catherine Zeta-Jones is a good example. That was always my take on it, anyway. I don't really care for most of the characters, so long as...