Outlander Casts Burnt Actor as Roger 

has found its Roger in Scottish actor Richard Rankin.

Rankin will play the grown-up version of Rev. Wakefield’s adopted son, whom we met in Season 1.

Described as “intelligent, kindhearted and charming,” Roger was raised by the pastor after his parents died in World War II. When we meet him, he is a professor at Oxford who is very interested in history.

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Rankin tweeted his excitement after the announcement was made:

Hugely excited to be joining the @Outlander_Starz family. An amazing production filled with truly wonderful people and the best fans around!

— Richard Rankin (@RikRankin) December 14, 2015

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t read the Diana Gabaldon novels on which the Starz series is based, and you don’t want to be spoiled about what’s ahead, avert your eyes now.

Season 2 likely will follow the format of Gabaldon’s

, which opens in 1968 with a decades-long time jump that re-introduces Roger as a scholar in his late 20s. The older Roger then becomes acquainted with Claire… and her fetching, 20-something daughter, Brianna. Roger becomes a major player in the books moving forward.

Were you one of TVLine’s prescient readers who called for Rankin’s casting? And who should play his Brianna? Sound off in the comments!

This pleases me! I really liked him in the Crimson Field.

Eh,I pictured him more of a burly scholar,this guy a bit feeble looking.

I hope he puts green contacts in since they really talk about his green eyes in the books

*does quick image search* I approve! Now, just give me an exciting Brianna.

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