Kristian Nairn

Kristian Nairn is a Northern Irish actor and DJ. He first gained attention as Hodor in HBO's Game of Thrones, appearing between 2011 and 2014 and again in 2016. Later he took the role of Wee John Feeney in Our Flag Means Death, an HBO Max series, from 2022 to 2023. Away from acting, Nairn works in progressive house and trance music; he once held a residency at Belfast's Kremlin club and later toured with Rave of Thrones, a DJ show that uses musical themes and costumes from the fantasy series. At the end of 2017, he opened for Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike in Antwerp. He also performed at BlizzCon's anniversary party in 2016 and closing events in 2018, and in October 2018 he appeared in an eToro commercial on YouTube tied to the Hodl meme. An accomplished guitarist, he played backstage with Megadeth at the June 2018 Hellfest Open Air Festival in Clisson, France.