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Emilia Clarke – Daenerys Targaryen from Game Of Thrones
Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke was born on 23 October 1986. She is an English actress.
She studied at the Drama Centre London, appearing in a number of stage productions, including one by the Company of Angels.
She grew up in Oxfordshire. Her father, Peter Clarke, was a theatre sound engineer from Wolverhampton, while her mother, Jennifer, is the vice-president for marketing at a global management consulting firm as of 2020. Clarke’s older brother, Bennett, works in the entertainment industry and was part of the camera department on Game of Thrones.
Clarke became interested in acting at the age of three after seeing the musical Show Boat. When she was ten, her father took her to a West End audition for the musical The Goodbye Girl, a musical by Neil Simon. Clarke attended Rye St Antony School in Headington and St Edward’s School, Oxford, which she left in 2005.
After graduation, Clarke unsuccessfully applied to RADA, LAMDA, and Guildhall. She worked and traveled before entering the Drama Centre London, from which she graduated in 2009.
Her television debut came with a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors in 2009. The following year, she was named as one of the “UK Stars of Tomorrow” by Screen International magazine for her role in the Syfy film Triassic Attack (2010).
Clarke started to act in stage productions while attending school. She appeared in student productions of Twelfth Night and West Side Story while attending St Edward’s School. After taking a sabbatical year, she was accepted into Drama Centre London. Clarke also appeared in the 2009 production of Sense, co-produced by the theatre company Company of Angels and Drama Centre London.
One of her first film roles was in Drop the Dog, a University of London student short film. She graduated from drama school in 2009. Her first credited television role was a bit part in a 2009 episode of the British soap opera Doctors.
Clarke was cast in her first professional film role, playing Savannah in the 2010 television film Triassic Attack. The film was released in November 2010 on the Syfy Channel in the United States where it received negative reviews. Despite the film’s reviews, she was named a “UK Star of Tomorrow” by the film magazine Screen International.
In 2010, Clarke was cast in her third professional role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin.
Daenerys is one of the last surviving members of House Targaryen who had ruled Westeros from the Iron Throne for nearly three hundred years prior to being ousted. Actress Tamzin Merchant was originally cast for the part of Daenerys.
When the pilot episode was re-shot in early 2010, Merchant was replaced by Clarke. The show ran from April 2011 until May 2019, with Clarke portraying Daenerys throughout all eight seasons.
Clarke received widespread praise for her portrayal of Daenerys, which traces an arc from frightened girl to empowered woman.
In 2017, she reportedly became one of the highest-paid actors on television, reportedly earning £2 million per episode of Game of Thrones.
In 2019, she said she had been uncomfortable acting nude in her first experience at age 23 of a large film set but had since become “a lot savvier” about what level of nudity is needed for a scene.
Clarke received multiple award nominations and wins for her role as Daenerys. After the first season, Clarke won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama at the 2011 EWwy Awards.
She was also nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2013, 2015, and 2016.
At the 2019 Emmys, she was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, her first nomination in the category.
In addition to the television show, she lent her voice and likeness to the 2014 video game of the same name.
Clarke’s first film role was in the short film Shackled (2012). The film was featured in the 2020 Prime Video horror anthology series Murder Manual. The same year, she starred alongside Elliott Tittensor in the comedy film Spike Island. It details a group of friends who try to get to the namesake island of The Stone Roses 1990 concert.
In May 2013, Clarke was cast in a film adaptation of the novel The Garden of Last Days. James Franco was set to direct and star in the film however he left the project two weeks before filming after creative differences with the film distributor Millennium Entertainment.
In a 2019 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Clarke said she was offered the role of Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey. She said she turned down the part because of the nudity required.
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