Game of Thrones - "The Red Woman" - 01:57 am Saturday, January 17 on HBO Drama (West)

Peter Dinklage (Actor) .. Tyrion Lannister

Born: June 11, 1969
Birthplace: Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Trivia: Standing four feet five inches tall, actor Peter Dinklage has had a prolific career both on-stage and in film. After graduating from college in Vermont, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the Welsh School of Music and Drama in Wales. He worked in several productions off-Broadway and wrote his own play entitled Frog. He made his film debut in Tom DiCillo's 1995 independent comedy Living in Oblivion as the dwarf in the dream sequence. He then appeared in Safe Men, Bullet, Never Again, and Just a Kiss before returning to independent comedies. In 2001 he had a substantial role in Michel Gondry's Human Nature, written by Charlie Kaufman. In 2002, he played Binky, the sidekick to the clown Bananas played by Steve Buscemi in Alexandre Rockwell's 13 Moons. His first starring film role was in Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent as Finbar McBride, a lonely misfit who shacks up in an abandoned railway depot. Also starring Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale, the film won festival acclaim at Sundance. In 2003, Dinklage can be seen in both the Lincoln Center production of Toulouse Lautrec and the Jon Favreau holiday comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell. After a supporting role in The Baxter found Dinklage appearing in one of the year's most off-beat romantic comedies, and the sci fi television series Threshold afforded him the opportunity to appear alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner, Dinklage would next share the screen with the most popular canine in film and television history in the 2006 family-oriented adventure Lassie. In 2005, Dinklage took on a starring role in Threshold, a short-lived science fiction series from CBS, and joined the cast of filmmaker Michael Showalter's comedy The Baxter, in which he played a wedding planner. The following year the actor would make waves in Ryan Murphy's highly sexed drama Nip/Tuck. After appearing in a variety of television roles (including a stint playing himself on HBO's popular series entourage) Dinklage once again teamed with HBO to join the cast of Game of Thrones. This proved a fateful decision on his part, as the adaptation of George R. R. Martin's popular series of novels would become wildly successful, in no small part due to Dinklage's portrayal of Tyrion Lannister, the "imp" whose political savvy and brilliant mind allow him to thrive in a world that is less than kind to those it perceives as physically limited. The role led to an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2012.

Lena Headey (Actor) .. Cersei Lannister

Born: October 03, 1973
Birthplace: Hamilton, Bermuda

Trivia: One of the latest in an illustrious line of British actresses to graduate from the English Rose School of Acting into the realm of full-bodied contemporary roles, Lena Headey first came to the attention of audiences in 1992, when she played the younger version of Jeremy Irons' wife in Waterland. Hailing from Yorkshire (though she was born in Bermuda in 1973), Headey originally intended to be a hairdresser. Fate intervened, however, when her performance in a one-off show in the company of six school friends at the National Theatre caught the interest of a casting agent, who contacted her drama teacher and subsequently cast Headey in Waterland.Headey's turn as a sexually adventurous schoolgirl in the film led to her being cast as a sexually adventurous maid in Merchant Ivory's The Remains of the Day in 1993. More period adventure followed that same year in The Summer House, in which Headey played a quiet young lass being forced into a 1950s marriage with an insufferable mama's boy. After another stint as a corseted virgin in The Jungle Book (1994), Headey finally got to take part in the latter half of the 20th century in the BBC miniseries Loved Up (1995), in which she played an Ecstasy-saturated raver. That same year, she took part in another BBC mini, Band of Gold, in which she further distanced herself from her period past by portraying a lesbian prostitute. Over the next several years, Headey would appear in several projects like Posession, The Brothers Grimm, and The Red Baron, as well as TV series like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Game of Thrones.The actress returned to period drama in Marleen Gorris' adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1997), which cast her as the younger version of the title character's best friend. More contemporary work subsequently came her way in Antonia Bird's Face (also 1997), a crime thriller in which she played the social worker girlfriend of Robert Carlyle's political idealist-turned-gangster. She also starred in the romantic fantasy The Man with Rain in His Shoes (1998) as one of the love interests (along with Penelope Cruz) of an out-of-work Scottish actor (Douglas Henshall).After supporting turns in the lavish made-for-TV Merlin (1998) and Onegin (1999), the latter of which featured her as Liv Tyler's sister, Headey crossed over into the realm of Hollywood teen-oriented offerings with Gossip (2000), a college-set drama that cast her as one of three students who start a nasty rumor about two of their classmates (Kate Hudson and Joshua Jackson). Although the film was a bomb, Headey's career looked bright with a number of projects on the horizon. Included amongst them was Aberdeen (2000), a road movie set in Norway and Scotland that also starred Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling, and Stellan Skarsgård.

Emilia Clarke (Actor) .. Daenerys Targaryen

Born: May 01, 1987
Birthplace: London, England

Trivia: The daughter of a theatrical sound engineer, began acting at age 3 after attending a stage production of Show Boat that her father worked on. Appeared in secondary-school productions of West Side Story and Twelfth Night. Made British-TV debut in a 2009 episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors; made U.S. TV debut in the 2010 SyFy movie Triassic Attack.

Nikolaj Coster-waldau (Actor) .. Jaime Lannister

Born: July 27, 1970
Birthplace: Denmark

Trivia: After a number of roles in his native Denmark, actor Nikolaj Waldau began appearing in U.S. films in the early 2000s with bit parts in Black Hawk Down and Wimbledon, to name a few. In 2007, he landed the lead role on Fox's New Amsterdam, a supernatural cop show from director Lasse Hallström.

Kit Harington (Actor) .. Jon Snow

Born: December 26, 1986
Birthplace: London, England

Trivia: Descended from a viscount who served as Britain's Secretary of War at the turn of the 19th century, and is a nephew of a baronet; the family is listed in Burke's Peerage. Originally planned to be a journalist before deciding on acting. Starred in the World War I stage drama War Horse in London immediately after graduating from drama school. Made his TV debut in Game of Thrones. Named the face of Jimmy Choo in 2015. Played the title role in Doctor Faustus at the Duke of York Theatre in the West End in 2016.

Iain Glen (Actor) .. Jorah Mormont

Born: June 24, 1961
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland

Trivia: A handsome supporting player whose occasional leap into the lead has resulted in some interestingly varied performances, actor Iain Glen has appeared in everything from low-budget indies to high-profile Hollywood blockbusters -- frequently holding his own opposite such screen heavies as Harvey Keitel (The Young Americans) and Billy Connolly (Gabriel & Me). A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, who studied at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Aberdeen before honing his craft at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the talented Shakespearian actor would go on to impress audiences in such stage works as Macbeth and Henry V. In 1985, the ascending stage talent made a successful transition to the screen with a small role in an episode of the popular U.K. mystery series Taggart, and after making the leap to the big screen with a supporting role in the 1987 feature Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Glen returned to television the next year for a role in the series The Fear. In the years that followed, Glen's big-screen career gained notable momentum thanks to solid performances in Gorillas in the Mist (1988) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), with his early years coming to a peak when he took home a Best Actor award from the Berlin International Film Festival for his turn as a convicted killer in the 1990 film Silent Scream. That same year, Glen also received accolades for his portrayal of real-life explorer Lt. John Hanning Speke in Mountains of the Moon, though the remainder of the decade would find him sticking mainly to U.K. television (occasionally taking the lead, as in 1992's Frankie's House). Following an endearing turn as a sports reporter whose one-night fling leads him to come to terms with his tragic past in Glasgow Kiss, Glen received notable international exposure with a high-profile role opposite Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Though Glen's shattering performance as a father suffering terminal lung cancer in the drama Gabriel & Me (screenwriter Lee Hall's follow-up to Billy Elliot) ultimately failed to gel with audiences, Glen's horrific turn as a seemingly possessed father in Darkness offered the talented actor at his manic best. By this point, Glen seemed to be growing increasingly comfortable alternating between more independent-minded features and more large-scale productions, taking the role of noted psychiatrist Carl Jung in the 2003 romantic drama The Soul Keeper before taking a more epic turn as an anthropologist who hunts and captures pygmies in order to study them and prove a link between man and ape in 2005's Man to Man. He appeared in Ridley Scott's epic Kingdom of Heaven, as well as Resident Evil: Extinction. In 2008 he had a major part in a retelling of The Diary of Anne Frank for the BBC, and followed that up with a part in the Michael Caine vehicle Harry Brown. In 2011 he acted in the Oscar winning biopic The Iron Lady.

Maisie Williams (Actor) .. Arya Stark

Born: April 15, 1997
Birthplace: Bristol, England

Trivia: Got her first acting job in HBO's Game of Thrones as Arya Stark. Studied dance at the Susan Hill School of Dancing and Bath Dance College. Credits her dancing experience for her ability to sword fight. Is naturally right-handed, but attempts to do things left-handed in the series because it is mentioned in the George R.R. Martin books that her character is left-handed. Won two 2012 Portal Awards (for best Supporting Actress/TV and Best Young Actor).

Sophie Turner (Actor) .. Sansa Stark

Born: February 21, 1996
Birthplace: Northampton, England

Trivia: Began studying drama at Playbox Theatre in Warwick, England, when she was 3 years old; first role in front of a camera is Sansa in Game of Thrones. A natural blonde, her hair is dyed red to play the immature, polarizing Sansa, which helps her remain relatively anonymous in public. Studies ballet.

Alfie Allen (Actor) .. Theon Greyjoy

Born: September 12, 1986
Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England

Trivia: Had a small role, with sister Lily Allen, in Oscar-nominated Elizabeth (1998), on which their mother, Alison Owen, was a producer. Is the subject of "Alfie," a song on Lily's debut album, Alright, Still (2006). Claims to be one of the first children in the United Kingdom to be given Ritalin after being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD). In 2008, succeeded Daniel Radcliffe in the role of troubled teen Alan Strang of Peter Shaffer's Equus for a revival tour of the 1973 play.

Conleth Hill (Actor) .. Varys

Born: November 24, 1964
Birthplace: Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Trivia: A veteran of the theater in Scotland, Ireland, Broadway, and London's West End, actor Conleth Hill began supplementing his impressive stage career with on-screen acting in the late '80s. He started by making minor appearances on British television, eventually working his way up to more substantial parts, like his recurring role of Jared on the comedy series The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle in 2007. In 2009, Hill was cast as Brockman in the Woody Allen comedy Whatever Works, opposite Larry David.

Gwendoline Christie (Actor) .. Brienne

Born: October 28, 1978
Birthplace: Worthing, West Sussex, England

Trivia: Graduated from drama school in 2005. Worked at an interiors boutique in Brighton, England. Modeled for noted photographer Polly Borland. Performed in stage productions of Dr. Faustus and Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Stands 6-foot-3.

Carice Van Houten (Actor) .. Melisandre

Born: September 05, 1976
Birthplace: Leiderdorp, The Netherlands

Trivia: Born September 5, 1976, in the Netherlands, actress Carice van Houten worked steadily in her native country on both the small and big screens, garnering a number of nominations for her work. She first started to acquire international fame as the star of Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, portraying Rachel Stein, a Jewish woman who disguises herself and uses her allure and beauty in order to manipulate the Nazis in charge of the occupation of Holland. The exposure from her work in that film served as a springboard for van Houten, and she was soon appearing prominantly in high-profile Hollywood pictures, such as Bryan Singer's WWII drama Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise; the sci-fi film Repossession Mambo, as the wife of Jude Law's character; and the biographical drama Vivaldi, starring Joseph Fiennes as the classical composer. In 2012, she joined Game of Thrones, playing Melisandre, though she still found time to return to the big screen, including The Fifth Estate in 2013 and the Jesse James biopic Race (2016), playing German film director/propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Liam Cunningham (Actor) .. Davos Seaworth

Born: June 02, 1961
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland

Trivia: Irish actor Liam Cunningham has spent much of his career on stage, but also occasionally appears on television and in feature films. He made his movie debut with a small role in Mike Newell's charming Irish fantasy Into the West (1993). He has since played supporting roles in productions such as War of the Buttons (1994) and Michael Winterbottom's Jude (1996). Before entering drama school in the 1980s, Cunningham had been an electrician. He started out on the Irish stage and then embarked upon a U.S. tour with a travelling Irish troupe. Cunningham's other stage credits include stints with the Passion Machine theater company and London's Royal Court Theatre. His television credits include guest-starring roles on such British series as Cracker.

Natalie Dormer (Actor) .. Margaery Tyrell

Born: February 11, 1982
Birthplace: Reading, Berkshire, England

Trivia: Hails from the same hometown as Kate Winslet and Kenneth Branagh. Studied ballet, jazz and modern dance at 3 years old. Former member of the London Fencing Academy. Honed her acting skills in British theater. Made her big-screen debut in 2005's Casanova. Enjoys playing poker; came in second place at the 2008 PartyPoker.com Women's World Open in London.

Jonathan Pryce (Actor)

Born: June 01, 1947
Birthplace: Holywell, Wales

Trivia: Welsh native Jonathan Pryce switched from art studies to acting after winning a RADA scholarship, and quickly became both a critically viable and immediately recognizable screen presence. In numerous screen assignments, Pryce's subtle intensity and mania - deftly but not deeply buried beneath a placid exterior - could be parlayed with equal aplomb into roles as an angst-ridden everyman or a manipulative sociopath. In the majority of Pryce's characterizations, he projected a frightening degree of intelligence and sophistication almost by default.After a few seasons with the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, Pryce scored a London theatrical success in Comedians, winning a Tony award when the play moved to Broadway in 1976. Thereafter, he starred in the Broadway musicals Miss Saigon and Oliver!. Pryce's subsequent effectiveness in villainous roles threatened to typecast him as Machiavellian heavies, such as his icewater-veined personification of "reason and logic" in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). As time rolled on, however, Pryce began to demonstrate his ability to add layers of offbeat and intriguing eccentricity to roles that, in other hands, could easily become caricatures or stock parts - a gift apparent as early as Pryce's leading turn in Gilliam's Brazil (1985), as a beleaguered everyman enmeshed in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare. The actor was particularly arresting, for example, as James Lingk, a bar patron with not-so-subtle homosexual inclinations, who falls prey to the machinations of hotshot salesman Ricky Roma (Al Pacino), in James Foley's 1992 screen adaptation of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross. He commanded equally powerful screen presence as Henry Kravis, a cunning entrepreneur and the "master of the leveraged buyout" (who bilks corporate giant F. Ross Johnson for a fortune) in the Glenn Jordan-directed, Larry Gelbart-scripted boardroom comedy Barbarians at the Gate (1993). In 1995, Jonathan Pryce won a Cannes Film Festival best actor award for his portrayal of homosexual writer Lytton Strachey in Carrington, opposite Emma Thompson. In subsequent years, Pryce's screen activity crescendoed meteorically; he remained extremely active, often tackling an average of three to five films a year, and demonstrated a laudable intuition in selecting projects. Some of his more prestigious assignments included roles in Evita (1996), Ronin (1998), De-Lovely (2004) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). The Brothers Grimm (2005) re-united the Welsh actor with Brazil and Baron Munchausen collaborator Terry Gilliam. In 2008, Pryce teamed up with George Clooney, Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski for a supporting role in the Clooney-directed sports comedy Leatherheads (2008); Pryce plays C.C. Frazier, the manager of a 1920s collegiate football player (Krasinski). Many American viewers may continue to associate Pryce with his television commercial appearances as the spokesman of Infiniti automobiles.

Iwan Rheon (Actor) .. Petyr Baelish

Born: May 13, 1985
Birthplace: Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Trivia: Began acting in school drama productions at the age of 17. First discovered at a National Eisteddfod of Wales (a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance). Can speak Welsh fluently. Plays the piano, guitar and bass guitar. Is dyslexic. Was the lead singer in The Convictions before deciding to pursue a career in acting. Won the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical at the 2010 Olivier Awards for his role as Moritz Stiefel in the rock-musical Spring Awakening. Has released three solo EPs in 2010, 2011 and 2013 respectively. His first album, Dinard, was released in April 2015, the title of which refers to the French town where he met his girlfriend Zoe Grisedale.

Michael McElhatton (Actor) .. Bran Stark

Born: September 12, 1963
Birthplace: Terenure, Ireland

Trivia: Attended Terenure College, where he began acting in the school's theater program. Returned to Ireland after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to begin his career as a theatre actor before moving into television and film. Was part of the original cast of the play The Seafarer when it premiered on the West End in 2006; when the play transferred to Broadway, his role was recast with Sean Mahon. Appeared in the play The Night Alive at the Donmar Warehouse in 2013, opposite Ciarán Hines and Jim Norton. Joined Game of Thrones during the show's second season, as the recurring character Roose Bolton; was promoted to a series regular for season six.

Daniel Portman (Actor) .. Bronn

Born: April 13, 1992
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland

Trivia: Dreamed of becoming a professional rugby player until he seriously injured his knee and groin. Started acting professionally after taking part in Anything Goes with Glasgow School's Youth Theatre. Auditioned for two other parts on Game of Thrones before landing the part of Podrick. Regularly held up filming of Game of Thrones due to laughing fits with co-stars Peter Dinklage and Jerome Flynn. Played Neoptolemos in Benny Young's adaptation of Philoctetes in 2015.

Indira Varma (Actor) .. Samwell Tarly

Born: May 14, 1973
Birthplace: Bath. Somerset, England

Trivia: Father was Indian, mother Swiss and part Italian. Once considered becoming a mime. As she told WhatsOnStage.com, she displayed acting chops as a child: She had a bunk bed with curtains, and used to "tell stories and convince people I was someone else." Trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. On stage, has appeared in works by Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, David Hare, Anton Chekhov, Noel Coward and Thornton Wilder. Her musical tastes sometimes tend more toward pop and rock, though, including Wilco and Michael Jackson. Her 1996 film debut was as the star of Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, which was banned in India and Pakistan. In 2005 and 2007, played a young wife, Niobe, in the HBO series Rome. In 2010, took on the role of billionaire Ilsa Pucci in the Fox action series Human Target.

Alexander Siddig (Actor) .. Stannis Baratheon

Born: November 21, 1965
Birthplace: Sudan

Trivia: Born to an English mother and Sudanese father. Uncle Sadiq Al Mahdi was a two-time Prime Minister of Sudan (in the 1960s and '80s). Was bitten by the acting bug as a teenager, when he played Puck in a high-school production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Initially aspired to be a director, and has directed plays as well as two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Interests include wine collecting, role-playing games, gardening and home projects.

Deobia Oparei (Actor)

Rosabell Laurenti Sellers (Actor)

Born: March 27, 1996

Keisha Castle-Hughes (Actor)

Born: March 24, 1990
Birthplace: Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia

Trivia: In 2004, 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes became the youngest person ever to be nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Actress category. Born in Australia to a Maori mother and an Australian father, Castle-Hughes was discovered by a casting agent at her school in Mt. Wellington, New Zealand. With no previous acting experience, she made her film debut as the courageous, young Paikea in the highly acclaimed film Whale Rider. She won awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, and Online Film Critics Society for her performance. Castle-Hughes's roles for 2005 include the Queen of Naboo in Star Wars: Episode III.

Jessica Henwick (Actor)

Born: August 30, 1992
Birthplace: Surrey, England

Trivia: Was a member of the National Youth Theatre. In June 2009, she was cast in the lead role for the BBC drama Spirit Warriors. This achievement made her the first actress of East Asian descent to play a lead role in a British television series. For her role in Spirit Warriors, Henwick underwent training in wushu martial arts. Has been cast in the popular Star Wars and Marvel franchise universes as Jess Pava and Colleen Wing respectively.

Owen Teale (Actor)

Born: May 20, 1961
Birthplace: Swansea, Wales

Trivia: As a teenager, occasionally worked at Porthcawl Little Theatre. Left school near the end of his final year to work as a children's entertainer at the Welsh theme park Barry Island Pleasure Park. Was accepted by the Guildford School of Acting in September 1980 and by Chistmas 1983 had received his Equity card. Spent four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in plays such as Julius Caesar and Robin Hood. Made his Broadway debut in A Doll's House, opposite Janet McTeer, in 1997. Won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor for A Doll's House. Played First Voice in a 2014 touring production of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood; he later played Dai Bread in the BBC TV movie.

Ben Crompton (Actor)

Faye Marsay (Actor)

Born: December 30, 1986
Birthplace: Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England

Trivia: Decided she wanted to be an actor after seeing a pantomime at the age of 6. Played the roles of Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily in a 2009 production of Peter Pan at the Northern Stage in Newcastle. Won the award for Best Actor at 2012's Spotlight Prize after performing Motherland for the judges. Attended a fundraiser in aid for the charity PSPA with Sam Callahan and Ant Payne in 2014. Appeared in the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special 'Last Christmas' as Shona McCullough. Played the role of Izzie in the radio drama The Price of Oil in 2015. Was the voice of Amy in the video game Need for Speed in 2015. Appeared in the fifth season of Game of Thrones as the Waif. Supported the #IAMWHOLE campaign to raise awareness of World Mental Health Day in 2016. Won the Best Supporting Actress Feature at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival for her role in You, Me and Him in 2018.

Hannah Waddingham (Actor)

Toby Sebastian (Actor)

Brenock O'connor (Actor)

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (Actor)

Born: November 26, 1988
Birthplace: Reykjavík, Iceland

Trivia: Began his career as a basketball player. Carried a 33 foot-long, 1,430 pound log for five steps at the World's Strongest Viking competition in Norway in 2015, beating a 1000-year-old record set by Orm Storolfsson. Played the lead role of King Thor, the leader of a Viking raiding party, in the Philadelphia Renaissance Faire's debut season in 2015. Placed either second or third in the TWI World's Strongest Man competition from 2012 to 2017.

Charlotte Hope (Actor)

Joseph Naufahu (Actor)

Chuku Modu (Actor)

Born: June 19, 1990
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

Trivia: Is of English, German, Nigerian, and Irish descent.Practiced boxing at a young age.Was inspired to pursue a career in acting as he is a fan of theater since a young age.Started his career as an actor when he was 12-years-old.Made his debut in films in 2016.

Staz Nair (Actor)

Trivia: Is of Russian and Indian descent but was raised in the U.K. Performed in a stage production of An Inspector Calls at the Garrick Theatre in London. Has worked extensively as a model. Competed on The X Factor in 2012 as a singer in a boy band. Booked his first major roles in 2016, as Qhono in Game of Thrones and Rocky in Fox's TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Rubi Ali (Actor)

Fola Evans-Akingbola (Actor)

Gerald Lepkowski (Actor)

Diogo Sales (Actor)

Junade Khan (Actor)

Sara Dylan (Actor)

Brian Fortune (Actor)

Michael Condron (Actor)

Michelle Fairley (Actor)

Born: January 17, 1964
Birthplace: Ballycastle, Northern Ireland

Trivia: Parents operated a tavern in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Got her start in drama with the Ulster Youth Theatre. Made London stage debut in 1986. Played the killer in the Inspector Morse puzzler The Way Through the Woods, which aired on PBS's Mystery! in 1997. Made Broadway debut in The Weir in 1999. Earned a 2008 supporting-actress nomination for an Olivier (the British equivalent of the Tony Awards) for her role as Emilia in Othello. Played Hermione Granger's mother in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (Parts 1 and 2).

Jack Gleeson (Actor)

Born: May 20, 1992
Birthplace: Cork, Ireland

Trivia: Began acting at age 7. Appeared in Batman Begins in 2005. Cast in HBO's Game of Thrones as evil king Joffrey Baratheon. Says his inspiration for his Game of Thrones role was Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Was named an academic scholar at Trinity College in 2012. Involved in puppet-theater production in Dublin.

Richard Madden (Actor)

Born: June 18, 1986
Birthplace: Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Trivia: Joined a youth drama group at age 11 and was soon cast in a film (as a rape victim in the 2000 drama Complicity); and appeared in a children's TV series (My Barmy Aunt Boomerang) at age 13. Was bullied in secondary school because of his childhood acting experience. Starred in a Globe Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in London and on a UK tour while still a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Has also appeared on stage with the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Costarred in Hope Springs, a 2009 BBC comedy-drama series about women ex-cons; and Sirens, a 2011 BBC comedy series about paramedics. Won the 2009 Scottish Style Award for Most Stylish Male and was named one of Scotland's "most eligible men" by the Scotsman newspaper in 2010.

Isaac Hempstead Wright (Actor)

Born: April 09, 1999
Birthplace: England

Trivia: Had no interest in acting until he joined a drama club to get out of playing soccer on cold Saturday mornings during the winter. Began acting in commercials. Studied acting at the Kent Youth Theatre in Canterbury, England. Screen debut was in the 2011 horror flick The Awakening. Big break came when he was cast as Bran Stark on Game of Thrones. Plays piano and drums.

Rory Mccann (Actor)

Born: April 24, 1969
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland

Trivia: Worked as a lumberjack and bridge painter prior to acting. First gained notice by appearing in a Scottish breakfast-cereal commercial. Won a Scottish BAFTA Award for his role in the 2002 TV series The Book Group. Is an avid outdoorsman and experienced mountaineer; got to put his climbing skills to good use in the TV series Rockface. Plays the piano.

Aidan Gillen (Actor)

Born: April 24, 1968
Birthplace: Drumcondra, Dublin, Ireland

Trivia: The embodiment of the line "when Irish eyes are smiling, they're up to something bad," Aidan Gillen oozed ruthless charisma and wicked sex appeal in his role as the sexually prolific Stuart Alan Jones in the 1999 British TV series Queer As Folk. Bringing wry humor and understatement to a potentially over-the-top role, Gillen earned a reputation as one of the U.K.'s most compulsively watchable new performers.Born in Dublin, Gillen got his professional start in the late '80s, appearing in minor film roles. He worked steadily through the 1990s, in film and on television, popping up in such diverse offerings as Circle of Friends (1995), Some Mother's Son (1996), and Jez Butterworth's Mojo (1997). His major breakthrough role was inarguably that of Queer As Folk's Stuart, an arrogant, vain, and thoroughly sexy PR executive who strips countless men of both their clothing and resistance. The success of the controversial miniseries ensured that it -- and its talented actors -- would be back for a second go-round, which followed in 2000. That same year, Gillen found accompanying acclaim on the big screen, in Jamie Thraves' acclaimed directorial debut The Low Down, in which he starred as an amiable but frustrated commercial artist whose life changes when he meets a radiant, ambitious woman. He appeared in both My Kingdom and Lorna Doone, as well as the action comedy Shanghai Knights before joining the cast of the revered HBO series The Wire in that show's third season. When his time on that program came to a close he was in the action film 12 Rounds, and then was cast in the series Identity.

Charles Dance (Actor)

Born: October 10, 1946
Birthplace: Redditch, Worcestershire, England

Trivia: Tall, sandy-haired British actor Charles Dance trained for a career in graphic design at Plymouth College of Art and Leicester College of Art. Dance developed a taste for the theatre by listening to the reminiscences of two elderly actors who ran a pub in his Dover neighborhood. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of 29, and made his first film, the James Bond picture For Your Eyes Only, six years later. Dance's widest professional exposure came in 1984 when he appeared in "The Jewel in the Crown," a 14-part British TV production seen in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theatre. Charles Dance's best-remembered performances have been as D.W. Griffith in Good Morning Babylon (1987); the role of Meryl Streep's husband in Plenty (1985); the title part in the 1990 TV adaptation of Phantom of the Opera; and the displaced "imaginary" villain in Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Last Action Hero (1993).

Jacob Anderson (Actor) .. Grey Worm

Born: June 18, 1990
Birthplace: Bristol, England

Trivia: Wrote his first song, a paean to the Norwegian town of Stavanger, upon being inspired during a visit for a family friend's wedding. Left home at age 17 and moved to London to begin his professional career. Uses the alias Raleigh Ritchie for his music career, which is a combination of the names of Bill Murray's and Luke Wilson's respective characters in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. Debut studio album You're a Man Now, Boy was released in 2016 on Columbia Records.

Pilou Asbæk (Actor) .. Euron Greyjoy

Born: March 02, 1982
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark

Trivia: Parents are successful art gallery owners in Denmark. Rose to fame on the Danish series Borgen, where he played a political spin doctor. Named one of the European Film Production's Shooting Stars in 2011. Filmed the movie A Hijacking (2012) off the coast of Somalia on a ship that had previously been hijacked, with former crew members standing in as extras.

Roger Ashton-Griffiths (Actor) .. Mace Tyrell

Rebecca Benson (Actor) .. Talla Tarly

Ricky Champ (Actor) .. Flynn

Dean-Charles Chapman (Actor) .. Tommen Baratheon

Born: September 07, 1997
Birthplace: Essex, England

Trivia: Is a middle child, has an older sister and a younger sister.Was raised in Essex and London.Studied drama and dance at Colin's Performing Arts School in England.Played a minor role, then Michael and finally Billy Elliot in the theater production of Billy Elliot the Musical.Found out he was going to play a king in Game of Thrones during his wardrobe fitting because he didn't read the script before.Adopted a Received Pronunciation accent for his role in Game of Thrones.

Michiel Huisman (Actor) .. Daario Naharis

Born: July 18, 1981
Birthplace: Amstelveen, Noord Holland, The Netherlands

Trivia: Actor and musician who plays guitar, sings and writes his own music. Performed with the Netherlands band Fontane. Released a solo album, Serene Stories, in Dutch, in 2005.

Enzo Cilenti (Actor) .. Yezzan zo Qaggaz

Born: August 08, 1974
Birthplace: Bradford, England

Trivia: Studied acting at the Drama Studio in London for a year. His first professional acting role was in 1998's Trial and Retribution. Participated in the Tour de France with his wife, Sienna Guillory, to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind in 2004. Appeared in a 2004 West End revival of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, opposite Guillory and Alicia Witt. Co-authored a novel titled Mediterranean Homesick Blues with Ben Chatfield.

Andrei Claude (Actor) .. Khal Rhalko

Sebastian Croft (Actor) .. Young Eddard Stark

Essie Davis (Actor)

Born: January 19, 1970
Birthplace: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Trivia: While at drama school, lived with classmate Cate Blanchett. A week after graduating, cast as Juliet in Bell Shakespeare Company's 1993 production of Romeo and Juliet and as Jilly in the film The Custodian (1993). Met husband Justin Kurzel in 1996, when he was a set designer at the Sydney Theatre Company and she was in a Belvoir Street production of A View from the Bridge. Sprained her ankle, dislocated her knee and broke a rib doing stunts for Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

Kevin Eldon (Actor) .. Theatre Actor

Nathalie Emmanuel (Actor) .. Missandei

Born: March 02, 1989
Birthplace: Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England

Trivia: Started acting as a child, and her breakthrough role came as Young Nala in the original London production of The Lion King in 1999. Got noticed on British TV playing Sasha Valentine on the soap opera Hollyoaks (2006-10). Made film debut in 2012 thriller Twenty8k, which also featured her future Game of Thrones costar Stephen Dillane. First appearance as Missandei on HBO's Game of Thrones came in the third-season premiere, "Valar Dohaeris," in 2013. Credits Game of Thrones role for opening doors to more work in feature films, including Furious 7 (2015) and Fast 8 (2017), the seventh and eighth installments, respectively, of The Fast and the Furious franchise, and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), the second and third titles, respectively, in The Maze Runner movie series.

Lino Facioli (Actor) .. Robin Arryn

Born: July 29, 2000

Game of Thrones: The Red Woman

01:57 am - 02:47 am, Saturday, January 17 on HBO Drama (West) ()

The Red Woman

Season 6, Episode 1