STARZ has been busy today in the Outlander casting department. They just announced that Gary Lewis has been cast as Colum MacKenzie in the Diana Gabaldon best-selling book series TV adaptation.
Colum MacKenzie is the clan leader and maternal uncle of Jamie Fraser – also the older brother to Dougal MacKenzie (Graham McTavish)
Lewis has had extensive movie and TV roles since 1993 according to imdb.com. (Gangs of New York is the only one I have heard of – guessing most are across the pond and not on U.S. TV.)
Outlander will hit the TV screens on STARZ in 2014.
I think Lewis and McTavish will be great as the brothers MacKenzie. They look enough like brothers to pull it off. Now if they would only cast Claire, I would be a happy Outlander Fan.
![New addition to the “Outlander” Clan today. We are pleased to announce that Scotsman Graham McTavish will join the cast of @[524783437580870:274:Outlander] as Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie, secret supporter of the rebel cause against the British, and uncle to Jamie Fraser.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/p320x320/1174843_560863130639567_671283497_n.jpg)
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