michael mcelhatton played roose bolton on game of thrones.
michael mcelhatton played roose bolton on game of thrones.
who plays roose bolton on game of thrones?
michael mcelhatton
roose is portrayed by irish actor michael mcelhatton in the hbo television adaptation.









































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lord roose bolton is a significant vassal of lord eddard stark. his seat is the dreadfort and his sigil is a flayed man, an homage to the ancient bolton tradition of flaying enemies. he is nicknamed the leech lord for regular leechings meant to improve his health.









































roose bolton is not a point of view character in the novels, so his actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of other people, such as catelyn stark, arya stark and theon greyjoy/reek.









































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roose bolton
bullet::::- locke (seasons 3–4) portrayed by noah taylor. a man-at-arms sworn to house bolton, and acts as roose bolton's personal bounty hunter. he captures brienne of tarth and jaime lannister who were on their way to king's landing, locke later cuts off jaime's sword-hand on route to harrenhal and tries to feed brienne to a bear rather than hold her ransom, further demonstrating his contempt for wealth and nobility. he holds harrenhal in roose bolton's name until former master of coin lord petyr baelish is been proclaimed lord of harrenhal and the riverlands. in season 4, locke has followed lord bolton in pledging loyalty to the lannisters, and arrives at the dreadfort with roose and his men (having been smuggled back into the north to avoid the ironborn). locke warmly greets roose's bastard ramsay – the two are friends and share mutual interests in flaying and mutilation of their enemies. when roose learns bran and rickon stark are alive, and may pose a threat to his new title as warden of the north, he commands locke to go on a hunt to find the boys, in exchange for a thousand acres of land and a holdfast of his own. locke eventually arrives at the wall and becomes acquainted with jon snow, bran and rickon's half-brother, who he apparently plans to kill as per ramsay's suggestion. locke is one of the few who join jon on his mission to kill the night's watch mutineers at craster's keep, and in the ensuing battle, he escapes the fray and locates bran stark held captive with jojen reed, meera reed and hodor. locke attempts to kidnap bran and kill him unseen, but bran uses his warg abilities to enter hodor's mind, and kills locke by snapping his neck. his body is brought back to craster's keep by eddison tollett, and burned along with the rest of the slain.
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