Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke is an English actress. She rose to prominence in her breakthrough role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones. Her film roles include Sarah Connor in the science fiction film Terminator Genisys and Qi’ra in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story. In 2018, she was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with the British Artist of the Year award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.
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Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke is an English actress. She rose to prominence in her breakthrough role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones. Her film roles include Sarah Connor in the science fiction film Terminator Genisys and Qi’ra in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story. In 2018, she was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with the British Artist of the Year award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. Clarke made her Broadway debut as Holly Golightly in the 2013 play Breakfast at Tiffany’s and played Nina in a West End production of The Seagull that began previews in 2020 before being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Clarke has Indian ancestry on her mother’s side of the family; she stated in a 2018 interview that her maternal grandmother was the child of a secret affair between Clarke’s great-grandmother and a man from the Indian subcontinent. Her grandmother wore light makeup to hide the darker complexion she had inherited from her father. Clarke said she became interested in acting at the age of three after seeing the musical Show Boat. Clarke attended Rye St Antony School in Headington and St Edward’s School, Oxford, which she left in 2005. Her father, Peter Clarke, was a theatre sound engineer from Wolverhampton, while her mother, Jennifer, was a business woman – and the vice-president for marketing at a global management consultancy firm as of 2020. Clarke’s older brother, Bennett, works in the entertainment industry and was part of the camera department on Game of Westeros.
She has a younger brother Bennett, who is a cameraman for the HBO series Game Of Thrones. She is married to the cameraman and director of the series, David Walliams, and they have a son, Jack. She was born on 23 October 1986, in London. She graduated from the Drama Centre London, from which she graduated in 2009. She worked at various non-acting jobs after graduating while auditioning for roles. Her first credited television role was a bit part in a 2009 episode of the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors. Clarke was cast in her first professional role, playing Savannah in the 2010 television film Triassic Attack. Despite the film’s reviews, she is named a \”UK Star of Tomorrow by the film magazine Screen International magazine for her role in the Syfy film. Clarke also appeared the 2009 production of Sense, co-produced by theatre company Company of Angels and Drama Center London. After graduation, Clarke unsuccessfully applied to RADA, LAMDA, and Guildhall. She also appeared in Drop the Dog, a University of London short film in 2009, and starred in two commercials for the Samaritans, portraying a domestic abuse victim. In a 2016 interview with Time Out magazine, she stated “I went to posh boarding schools, but I wasn’t the posh girl at the posH boarding schools. ” She stated that most of the people at her boarding school in Oxford were from conservative backgrounds, which meant she and some of her friends often felt like outsiders.
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