“The Hobbit” star Richard Armitage has joined the cast of NBC’s “Hannibal,” a spokesperson for the network told TheWrap.
He will play Francis Dolarhyde, a.k.a. the Tooth Fairy, on Season 3 of the psychological horror series, adapted from Thomas Harris’s popular novels “Hannibal,” “Hannibal Rising” and “The Red Dragon.” He is slated for a six-episode run.
Armitage recently played the treasure-obsessed dwarf Thorin in all three of Peter Jackson‘s “Hobbit” movies, including “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” which came out last month. He also starred in Steven Quale’s “Into the Storm” and as John Proctor in a 2014 retelling of “The Crucible,” as well as co-starred in Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger.”