James D’Arcy, Jonathan Pryce & Lena Olin Board ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ As Sky Series Casts The Vanger Family

EXCLUSIVE: Sky’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series has cast the Vanger family. An ensemble of heavyweight actors has joined the Stieg Larsson adaptation including Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, Slow Horses) as Henrik Vanger, James D’Arcy (Oppenheimer, VisionQuest) as Martin Vanger, Lena Olin (Nine Perfect Strangers, The Housewife) as Isabella Vanger, Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!, Stillwater) as Erika Berger, Alun Armstrong (The Choral, Breeders) as Harald Vanger, Jessica Raine (Two Weeks in August, The Devil’s Hour) as Cecilia Vanger and Paul Ready (Ann Droid, The Terror) as Birger Vanger. The new cast join David Oyelowo (Silo) and rising star Viola Prettejohn (The Crown), who are playing leads Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander. Watch on Deadline Henrik Vanger is CEO of Vanger Enterprises and Blomkvist visits him at his estate and is given an assignment, solving the cold case of his niece Harriet from 40 years back. All of the Vangers have now been cast along with Erika Berger, who is Blomkvist’s editor at his newspaper. In the 2011 David Fincher movie, Henrik Vanger was played by Christopher Plummer while Robin Wright played Berger. More cast have joined the high-profile Sky series including Ariyon Bakare (Mr Loverman, The Mosquito Coast) as Palmgren, Lee Ross (Andor) as DI Gustaf Morell, Steve Wall (Black Doves) as Otto Falk, Justin Salinger (Hijack, The Strays) as Bjurman, Allan Corduner (Homeland, Tár) as Dirch Frode, Rochenda Sandall (Amandaland, WAR) as Armansky, Naomi Townsend (Going Dark, The Orange Cube Project) as Mimmi Wu Ingrid Keighley (Invasion) as the young Harriet Vanger, Danny Horn (Blockhead, Doctor Who) as the young Henrik Vanger, Lucy Brown (Primeval) as the young Isabella Vanger, Alastair Natkiel (Line of Duty) as the young Harald Vanger, Ewan Labram (Dept Q) as the young Martin Vanger, Joseph Mason-Coombs (Lazarus) as the young Birger Vanger, Daniella Arthur-Kennedy (First Day on Earth) as Pernilla Blomkvist, Enzo Cilenti (Kill Jackie, Black Mirror) as Greger Beckman, Dónall Ó Héalaí (Hidden Assets, The Surgeon and Landlines) as Anders Ahlund, and Lochlann Ó Mearáin (The Rainmaker) as Gottfried. Produced by The Crown indie Left Bank Pictures, the long-gestating TV version of the first in Larsson’s Millennium trilogy brings the story to the present day. Meghan Lyvers, Sky’s Managing Director, Scripted Originals, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome such an extraordinary ensemble cast to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Vanger family, with its bitter rivalries and deeply buried secrets, sits at the heart of one of fiction’s most compelling mysteries, and our eight-part adaptation gives us the opportunity to explore this fascinating dynasty in greater depth than ever before. With our brilliant creative team, we’re creating a series that honours everything audiences love about the original story, while taking its characters, mystery and themes into a world that feels unmistakably of the moment.” Left Bank CEO Charlotte Moore added: “It’s wonderful to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo brought to life with actors of this calibre. Alongside our leads David Oyelowo and Viola Prettejohn, we’re thrilled to be bringing such a stellar ensemble cast together with our outstanding creative team. It’s everything we could have hoped for.” The series is written and executive produced by Amanda Coe, Steve Lightfoot and Angela LaManna. Reinaldo Marcus Green directs and executive produces, with Andrea Harkin and Amy Neil also directing. Oyelowo stars and executive produces. Executive producers are Moore and John Phillips for Left Bank and Sam Hoyle for Sky. Nuala O’Leary is series producer. The creative team also includes production designer Jo Finkel, cinematographer Yaron Orbach, hair and make-up designer Sharon Martin, and costume designer Nicole Fischnaller. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be available on Sky in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Sony Pictures Television will handle international distribution, and introduced global clients to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as part of the studio’s 2026 MIPCOM slate. Left Bank Pictures is an SPT-backed company producing the series in association with Jarowskij/Yellow Bird.