Simon Pegg plays Hogwarts Legacy headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black

New trailer reveals voice talent featured in the game

Marco Wutz | Jan 11, 2023

Simon Pegg plays Hogwarts Legacy headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black /

A fresh trailer for Hogwarts Legacy, the game making waves on the Steam charts before even being released, has revealed Simon Pegg as the voice actor behind Phineas Nigellus Black, the headmaster of 1800s Hogwarts and forebear of Sirius Black.

Don’t let Pegg’s usual jovial demeanor and charm deceive you: Black is from a long line of Slytherins and his popularity among the students is near zero. Not that he cares about his students. The headmaster mostly concerns himself with his own status in the wizarding world, preferring to do as little work at Hogwarts as possible. According to Pegg he's "a little bit of an idiot" and a "self-interested fool".

The British actor is very happy to finally make his way into the wizarding world, especially as a member of the Black family, since Sirius was always one of his favorites.

The game will also feature Sebastian Croft and Amelia Gething as the voice options for the players’ avatars.

Lesley Nicol voices the role of Professor Matilda Weasley, another familiar name, who is the Deputy Headmistress and, naturally, a Gryffindor. Kandace Caine plays Professor Onai, who’s teaching Divination at Hogwarts, while Sohm Kapila fills the role of Professor Satyavati Shah, who grew up in the Muggle world and is now teaching Astronomy.

Actor Luke Youngblood, who was featured in the Harry Potter movies as Lee Jordan, returns to the wizarding world as Everett Clopton, a Ravenclaw student and notorious prankster. His total opposite in Ravenclaw is Asif Ali as Mahendra Pehlwaan, a stickler for rules even the teachers are wary of.

The last talent announcement made on this occasion is Jason Anthony as Nearly Headless Nick and the Sorting Hat, both iconic characters from the movies.

Hogwarts Legacy is slated to release on February 10, 2023, on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. A version for PS4 and Xbox One is set to be launched on April 4, 2023, with the Nintendo Switch edition following on July 25, 2023.

For details around the controversy surrounding Hogwarts Legacy, check out the linked explainer.

Published Jan 11, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg