Michelle Fairley

Michelle Fairley is an actress from Northern Ireland who spent years in British television before her best known role, Catelyn Stark in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, which she played from 2011 to 2013. Born in Coleraine, she appeared in shows including The Bill, Holby City, Casualty, Inspector Morse and Lovejoy. She took over the part of Mrs. Granger for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films, and later played Dr. Ava Hessington in Suits and took the part of Margot Al-Harazi in 24: Live Another Day. Her film roles include The Invisible Woman (2013), In the Heart of the Sea (2015) and Nobody Has to Know, in which she starred as Millie. On stage she took the role of Cassius in a 2018 production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre, and she has led the series The Feed and Gangs of London.