Expanse Fans Helped Keep Shohreh Aghdashloo Booked and Busy With Wheel of Time

Shohreh Aghdashloo’s career goes back decades, with her big breakout coming in 2003’s House of Sand and Fog, and roles since in X-Men: The Last Stand, 24, The Punisher, The Penguin, and more. But most genre fans look at Aghdashloo and think of one character in particular: The Expanse‘s Chrisjen Avasarala, the fierce, fabulous defender of Earth throughout the much-loved sci-fi series. And as it turns out, her popularity on that show helped bring her to her latest role, Wheel of Time‘s similarly fierce and fabulous Elaida a’Roihan. Speaking to Collider, Aghdashloo credits Expanse fans with sparking her interest in joining Wheel of Time, now in its third season on Prime Video. “As soon as I was done with The Expanse, the fans of The Expanse and those who liked my work on The Expanse, they started saying, ‘We need to find her another TV series because we want to see her at work,'” she recalled with delight. “One of them came up with the idea of The Wheel of Time. I had seen The Wheel of ... Read full article.