Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke is an English actress who came to prominence as Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones, a part she played through all eight seasons. Born in London and raised in Oxfordshire, she trained at Drama Centre London and graduated in 2009. That year she had a small television part in the soap opera Doctors, and in 2010 she took her first professional film role, in the television film Triassic Attack. Her Game of Thrones work brought four Primetime Emmy nominations. She later appeared as Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys (2015) and Qi'ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and she starred in Me Before You (2016) and later in Last Christmas (2019), both romantic dramas. Her stage credits include a Broadway debut in Breakfast at Tiffany's in 2013 and a West End performance as Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull. She also played G'iah in the Marvel miniseries Secret Invasion (2023).