Oftentimes while watching HBO's new series Game of Thrones, I'll get confused. Not because of the plot; reading the books has helped my understanding of what's going on in Westeros and beyond so much. No, I'm often confused by familiar faces. I've seen them before, I'll think. Haven't I?
Sometimes it's hard to tell, but after some investigations into IMDb, I think I've found quite a few of the connections I've been missing. I've compiled them into a slideshow for you, just in case you've been having the same problems. Even if you haven't been troubled by the cast of Game of Thrones, maybe this slideshow will help you make some connections -- I'm sure there are some connections in here that you'll recognize. Some of the actors, especially the child ones, have no previous roles, or at least no widely-seen previous roles, meaning that for actors such as Emilia Clarke (Daenerys) and Kit Harington (Jon Snow), we'll just have to be watching for them in the future.
Game of Thrones episode eight, "The Pointy End," airs on Sunday, June 5 at 9/8c. Until then, add in your favorite connections to the comments section below. With such a great cast, there's no harm in seeing them in more great roles.
We'll start with the obvious one, shall we? Sean Bean's Eddard "Ned" Stark is the de facto main character of the show. He's an honorable man thrown into a world of intrigue he just isn't prepared for. Bean's played a similarly oblivious character before, in a similar setting...
What? No Peter Dinklage? He's been in tons of movies.
You forgot prince yofrey. He is the boy of Batman Begins who Batman gives 'a gift' and at the end is running with Rachel.
So, basically you're just pointing out that these actors have had acting gigs before this show? I think that's unbelievably dumb. Especially since we're already on the Internet. We have access to IMDb too…
yeah, this article seems a little pointless to me
especially when the characters look nothing alike the ones compared to or have incredibly small or unknown roles in other films
I mean unless it's someone's acting debut they're going to be in other films…
Your heads on a pike
Stupid ingrates — why should I waste my precious hours in searching databases when there are wondr'ous whores for the buying?
Back to your huts!
I give my gracious nod to the courteous compiler.
the anti_supernaturalist