Dune: Prophecy Episode 1 introduced us to its central character Valya Harkonnen. Here, we discuss the character and the actor portraying her.

The fact that it has persisted for 10,000 years highlights its fundamental importance to Frank Herbert's universe.

There’s a whole new generation of Atreides and Harkonnen families introduced in HBO’s prequel series “Dune: Prophecy,” set 10,000 years before the events of Denis Villeneuve’s two “Dune” movies. Since the show is set so far in the past,