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The Game of Thrones stars: Their looks and lives then and now
Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) had just turned 14 when the show premiered. Now 21, she is known for ignoring her phone "intermittently for a week", has 11.1 million Instagram followers (girl has a face!) and is excited, she told Time, "to shape my career without being tied to anything”.
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Isaac Hempstead Wright joined a drama club to escape playing soccer and found himself as pivotal Bran Stark. Now 20, he studies neuroscience at university and has a reported net worth of around $5.7 million thanks to being the Three Eyed Raven.
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Newly wed to musician Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner, 23, said growing up on TV as Sansa Stark gave her anxiety but also education: “The first time I ever found out about oral sex was from reading the script,” she told the U.K.’s Sunday Times. “I was like … ‘Wow! People do that?'"
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The Danish father-of-two, 48, is as fit as he was in his early days of playing the Kingslayer: "The road back is too painful." Next up, he plays a father hunting his daughter's kidnapper in crime thrillers The Silencing and Domino.
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A fighter on screen and off, Emilia Clarke (Daenerys), 32, had just finished filming season one when she had the first of two brain aneurysms. "I nearly lost my mind and then my life," the star told The New Yorker. Now healthy, "I just wish my darling dad was here to see how far we've flown".
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Now 27, Jack Gleeson (King Joffrey) gave up acting after being poisoned at his own wedding on GoT and is now studying at a Dublin university. Acting, he told EW, "is just not what I want to do".
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Lena Headey, 45, said her first season as Cersei was "tricky" because she had post-natal depression. Now a mother of two, she's still kicking butt onscreen, most lately as a wrestling mum in Fighting with my Family.
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Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth) is "open to offers" now the show is done. "I love cash!" She's been dating British fashion designer Giles Deacon since 2013, campaigns for women's rights and is as feisty as her character: "I miss that sword."
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Kit Harington (left, in April and right, in 2011) found not just fame as brooding Jon Snow but a wife. He wed GoT co-star Rose Leslie in 2018 and said the show "gave me my future family and my life from here on in". And unforgettable hair.
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Raised in a Scottish castle, Rose Leslie, 32 (Ygritte) has hinted she and husband Kit Harington might start a family now GoT is finished. She never says her catchcry "You know nothing, Jon Snow" at home: "God, no. We don't do that."
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Nominated seven times for an Emmy as Tyrion Lannister, Peter Dinklage said his last day of filming was "beautifully bittersweet". Next up, the New York father of two, 49, will voice Mighty Eagle in The Angry Birds Movie 2.
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