Game of Thrones Cast: Where Every Major Actor Is Now

When Drogon melted the Iron Throne in front of a record 19.3 million viewers on May 19, 2019, the Game of Thrones cast scattered in directions nobody in Westeros could have predicted: a Marvel superhero, a Netflix vampire, a BAFTA-winning prison inmate and a strongman with a 501 kg deadlift. Six years on, almost every major actor is still working, several are bigger than they were during the show’s run, and only a couple have walked away from screen acting altogether. We have tracked down all of them, from Ned Stark to the Mountain, with their standout post-Westeros roles and where you can stream the work right now.

Key Takeaways

• Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell) is now the single most in-demand actor from the ensemble, headlining The Last of Us, The Fantastic Four: First Steps and The Mandalorian.
• Jason Momoa has the biggest box office of the group, with Aquaman passing a billion dollars and A Minecraft Movie topping $900 million in 2025.
• Jack Gleeson (Joffrey) stepped away from acting for six years, then returned for BBC comedy and a Liam Neeson thriller.
• Kit Harington and Rose Leslie married in 2018, while Kit’s planned Jon Snow sequel series has been shelved.
• Game of Thrones streams on HBO Max in the US, Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK, Crave in Canada and Binge in Australia, with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms arriving on HBO in January 2026.

Game of Thrones Cast at a Glance: Actor to Character

Here is the core ensemble in one place, grouped roughly by allegiance rather than billing order, since the show never had a fixed lead after Sean Bean lost his head.

The series ran eight seasons and 73 episodes on HBO between April 2011 and May 2019, collecting 59 Primetime Emmy Awards along the way, still the most for any scripted drama. That haul included four wins for Outstanding Drama Series and four acting Emmys for Peter Dinklage.

Where to Watch Game of Thrones Right Now

All eight seasons stream on HBO Max in the United States, after Warner Bros. Discovery restored the HBO branding to the service in 2025. British viewers find it on Sky Atlantic and NOW, Canadians on Crave, and Australians on Binge and Foxtel.

The franchise is active again, too. House of the Dragon aired its second season in June 2024 and is shooting a third, while A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, adapting the Dunk and Egg novellas, premieres on HBO in January 2026.

House Stark: Where the Winterfell Actors Are Now

Sean Bean (Ned Stark)

Sean Bean played the honourable Warden of the North for a single season, and his execution in episode nine of season one remains the moment that taught audiences nobody was safe. He had already died memorably as Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring and as 006 in GoldenEye, so the internet treated it as a running joke.

His best recent work is television. Bean won the 2022 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for Time, Jimmy McGovern’s BBC One prison drama, where he played a teacher serving a sentence for killing a cyclist while drunk. He also spent three seasons as the mysterious Mr. Wilford in Snowpiercer, which wrapped on AMC in 2024, and played Thomas Cromwell in Shardlake, the 2024 Tudor mystery for Disney+ (Hulu in the US).

Time streams on BBC iPlayer in the UK and BritBox in America, and Snowpiercer lives on AMC+.

Kit Harington (Jon Snow)

Kit Harington carried the final seasons as the resurrected King in the North, picking up Emmy nominations in 2016 and 2019. Since then he has deliberately avoided another long-running brooding hero.

Marvel cast him as Dane Whitman in Eternals (2021), a part that teased the Black Knight. He played the aristocratic Henry Muck across season three of Industry on HBO in 2024, a role critics praised as his best since the show, and appeared in Apple TV+’s climate anthology Extrapolations in 2023. On stage he led Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse in 2022.

His 2025 gothic horror The Dreadful reunited him with Sophie Turner, the first time the on-screen siblings had worked together since the finale. HBO’s planned Jon Snow sequel series, which Harington was developing with the network, has been shelved; he confirmed in 2024 that it is off the table for now.

Harington married Rose Leslie, his on-screen love Ygritte, in Scotland in June 2018, and the couple have a son and a daughter. Industry streams on HBO Max, and Eternals sits on Disney+.

Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark)

Sophie Turner was 13 when she was cast and 23 when she received an Emmy nomination for Sansa’s arc from pawn to Queen in the North. The X-Men franchise claimed her first, with Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019).

Her strongest post-Thrones work came on British television. Joan, the 2024 ITV drama in which she played the real-life 1980s jewel thief Joan Hannington, aired on The CW in the US and streams on ITVX in the UK. Netflix’s Do Revenge (2022) gave her a scene-stealing cameo, and The Dreadful paired her with Harington in 2025.

The big news arrived in July 2025, when Amazon cast Turner as Lara Croft in its live-action Tomb Raider series, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Off screen, her marriage to Joe Jonas ended in 2024; they share two daughters.

Maisie Williams (Arya Stark)

Maisie Williams got the series’ final kill, driving a dagger into the Night King, and earned two Emmy nominations for Arya. She has since gravitated toward prestige television with a punk edge.

Williams played Jordan, the Sex Pistols’ muse, in Danny Boyle’s Pistol (2022) for FX on Hulu, and Catherine Dior, the designer’s sister and a French Resistance agent, in Apple TV+’s The New Look (2024) opposite Ben Mendelsohn. Her Marvel detour as Wolfsbane in The New Mutants (2020) is best forgotten, but Sky’s dark comedy Two Weeks to Live (2020) is worth finding.

She also co-founded Daisie, a creative networking app, in 2018. The New Look streams on Apple TV+, and Pistol is on Hulu in the US and Disney+ elsewhere.

Richard Madden (Robb Stark)

Richard Madden’s Red Wedding death in 2013 produced some of the most shared images in television history, and his career has only climbed since. He played the prince in Disney’s live-action Cinderella (2015), then won the 2019 Golden Globe for Bodyguard, the BBC thriller that became a global Netflix hit.

Madden followed that with John Reid, Elton John’s manager, in Rocketman (2019), a supporting turn in Sam Mendes’s 1917, and Ikaris in Eternals. He now headlines Citadel, Amazon’s expensive spy franchise from the Russo brothers, which Prime Video has renewed for a second season.

Bodyguard streams on Netflix outside the UK and on iPlayer within it.

Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark)

Isaac Hempstead Wright ended the series on the throne as King Bran the Broken, a twist that divided viewers more than any other. He has largely stepped back from screen acting since, with the 2021 sci-fi film Voyagers a rare exception, and has focused on university studies and occasional voice work.

Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark)

Michelle Fairley’s Catelyn died alongside Robb, and the actress has since become a fixture of British crime drama as crime-family matriarch Marian Wallace in Gangs of London, which ran three seasons on Sky and AMC+ through 2025.

House Lannister: Where the King’s Landing Actors Are Now

Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister)

Peter Dinklage was the show’s most decorated performer, winning four Emmys for Tyrion in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2019. He has used that leverage to pursue unusual choices rather than franchise paydays.

Joe Wright’s musical Cyrano (2021) gave him a lead role and a Golden Globe nomination. He played the sinister dean Casca Highbottom in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), voiced the goat professor Dr. Dillamond in Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025), and starred in Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart comedy Unfrosted on Netflix in 2024.

Dinklage also produced and starred in The Toxic Avenger, a gory reboot that finally reached cinemas in 2025 after a long shelf. Wicked streams on Peacock, Unfrosted on Netflix, and the Hunger Games prequel on Starz.

Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister)

Lena Headey earned five Emmy nominations for Cersei, the most of any cast member who never won. She has taken a mix of action and genre work since.

Netflix’s Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) cast her as an assassin opposite Karen Gillan, and she voiced Evil-Lyn in Kevin Smith’s Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021), also on Netflix. Beacon 23, the MGM+ space drama she led for two seasons from 2023, was cancelled in 2024. Her next major project is The Abandons, a Netflix western opposite Gillian Anderson, arriving in late 2025.

Headey married actor Marc Menchaca in Italy in October 2022. Gunpowder Milkshake streams on Netflix in the US, and Beacon 23 on MGM+.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister)

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau turned the Kingslayer from villain to tragic hero over eight seasons and received Emmy nominations in 2018 and 2019. The Danish actor has split his time since between Hollywood thrillers, Scandinavian projects and United Nations work.

Shot Caller (2017) remains his best film performance, as a stockbroker turned prison gang leader. He co-wrote and starred in Against the Ice (2022), a Netflix survival drama about a 1909 Greenland expedition, and played the vanished husband in Apple TV+’s The Last Thing He Told Me (2023) alongside Jennifer Garner.

Coster-Waldau has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Programme since 2016, and in 2024 he fronted An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet, a climate travel series. Against the Ice is on Netflix, and The Last Thing He Told Me on Apple TV+.

Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister)

Charles Dance was killed on the privy by his own son in the season four finale, then kept playing powerful men with impeccable tailoring. He was Lord Mountbatten in season three of The Crown (2019), William Randolph Hearst in David Fincher’s Mank (2020) and Roderick Burgess in The Sandman (2022), all on Netflix.

Dance also appeared in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), Starz’s The Serpent Queen as Pope Clement VII, and the Paramount+ thriller Rabbit Hole (2023) with Kiefer Sutherland. He remains one of the busiest actors in the ensemble, well into his late seventies.

Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon)

Jack Gleeson created the most hated boy king on television, then did something almost unheard of: he quit. After Joffrey’s poisoning at the Purple Wedding in 2014, Gleeson finished a philosophy and theology degree at Trinity College Dublin and worked in fringe theatre with his company Collapsing Horse.

He returned to the screen in 2020 in Sara Pascoe’s BBC Two comedy Out of Her Mind, then appeared alongside Liam Neeson in the 1970s Irish thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023). Gleeson married Róisín O’Mahony in a small ceremony in Ireland in 2022.

His return has been selective rather than a full comeback, and he has said he has no interest in Hollywood fame. In the Land of Saints and Sinners is available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Dean-Charles Chapman (Tommen Baratheon)

Dean-Charles Chapman, who took over Tommen in season four and walked him out of a window in season six, landed the co-lead in 1917 (2019) as Lance Corporal Blake. Sam Mendes’s film won three Oscars, and Chapman’s performance anchored its first half.

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Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen)

Emilia Clarke’s Mother of Dragons was the show’s most recognisable image worldwide, and her four Emmy nominations reflect how much of the story she carried. Her post-Thrones screen career has been uneven, but her life outside it has become the bigger story.

She played Qi’ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), led the romantic weepie Me Before You (2016) and the Christmas comedy Last Christmas (2019), and joined Marvel as the Skrull G’iah in Disney+’s Secret Invasion (2023). The Pod Generation (2023), a sci-fi satire with Chiwetel Ejiofor, showed her lighter range. On stage she made her West End debut in The Seagull in 2022.

In a 2019 New Yorker essay Clarke revealed she had survived two brain aneurysms, one in 2011 after filming season one and another in 2013. She founded the charity SameYou to support recovery from brain injury, and she and her mother Jenny were appointed MBEs in the 2024 New Year Honours for that work.

Secret Invasion streams on Disney+, and Solo is on Disney+ as well.

Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo)

Jason Momoa had barely a dozen lines of English across two seasons, and he is now the biggest box-office draw to come out of the show. Aquaman (2018) grossed more than $1.1 billion, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom closed the DC chapter in December 2023.

He played Duncan Idaho in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021), the villain Dante Reyes in Fast X (2023), and led Apple TV+’s post-apocalyptic drama See for three seasons. In 2025 A Minecraft Movie, in which he plays the has-been gamer Garrett Garrison, earned more than $900 million worldwide, and Chief of War, the Hawaiian epic he co-created and stars in, premiered on Apple TV+ in August.

Momoa plays Lobo in Supergirl, due in June 2026, and is reportedly returning as Idaho in Dune: Part Three. See and Chief of War stream on Apple TV+, with Aquaman and A Minecraft Movie on HBO Max.

Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont)

Iain Glen’s loyal Jorah died defending Daenerys at Winterfell, which freed the Scottish actor for two notable leads. He played an older Bruce Wayne in DC’s Titans (2019–2021) and leads the crew of a stranded North Sea oil platform in Prime Video’s The Rig, which returned for a second season in January 2025.

Titans streams on HBO Max, and The Rig on Prime Video.

Jacob Anderson (Grey Worm)

Jacob Anderson, who also records music as Raleigh Ritchie, has arguably delivered the most acclaimed post-Thrones television performance of anyone in the cast. He plays Louis de Pointe du Lac in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, which premiered in 2022 and has drawn near-universal praise across two seasons, with a third in production.

He also appeared as Vinder in Doctor Who: Flux (2021). Interview with the Vampire streams on AMC+, with the first seasons also available on Netflix in the US.

Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei)

Nathalie Emmanuel was already playing hacker Ramsey in the Fast & Furious franchise when Missandei was executed in season eight, and she has stayed with the series through Fast X (2023). Beyond that, she starred in Netflix’s Army of Thieves (2021), the horror film The Invitation (2022), John Woo’s The Killer remake for Peacock (2024) and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024) as Julia Cicero.

The Breakout Supporting Players

Pedro Pascal (Oberyn Martell)

Pedro Pascal appeared in just seven episodes before the Mountain crushed his skull in 2014, and that single season launched the most remarkable career trajectory of anyone connected to the show. Narcos (2015–2017) came first, then The Mandalorian (2019 onward) made him a Star Wars lead whose face was rarely seen.

HBO’s The Last of Us brought him back to the network in 2023 as Joel, earning Emmy nominations, and season two in 2025 delivered his character’s shocking death in episode two. The same year he led Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps as Reed Richards, co-starred with Dakota Johnson in Celine Song’s Materialists, and appeared in Ari Aster’s Eddington.

Gladiator II (2024) cast him as the Roman general Acacius. Still to come: The Mandalorian and Grogu in May 2026 and Avengers: Doomsday in December 2026. The Last of Us streams on HBO Max, and his Star Wars and Marvel work on Disney+.

Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth)

Gwendoline Christie’s Brienne became the first woman knighted in Westeros, and the actress has become the franchise world’s favourite shape-shifter. She played Captain Phasma in The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), Lucifer Morningstar in Netflix’s The Sandman (2022 and its 2025 final season), and Principal Larissa Weems in Wednesday (2022), returning in a ghostly form for season two in 2025.

Her 2025 turn as the eerie goat-tending Lorne in Severance season two on Apple TV+ was a highlight of the year. Earlier she chose the strange over the safe in Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet (2022), opposite Asa Butterfield.

Rose Leslie (Ygritte)

Rose Leslie’s wildling archer told Jon Snow he knew nothing and then shot him with arrows, which seems to have worked out, since the two married in 2018. Leslie’s own career has centred on well-written television: Maia Rindell across three seasons of The Good Fight (2017–2019), DCI Amy Silva in the BBC’s submarine thriller Vigil (2021 and 2023), and Clare Abshire in HBO’s one-season The Time Traveler’s Wife (2022).

She also played the maid Louise in Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile (2022). Vigil streams on BBC iPlayer in the UK and Peacock in the US.

Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy)

Alfie Allen’s redemption arc for Theon ended with a 2019 Emmy nomination, and he has quietly built one of the most varied résumés of the group. Before the show ended he was the thug who killed John Wick’s dog (2014), and after it he played the Gestapo officer Deertz in Jojo Rabbit (2019).

Allen made his Broadway debut in Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen in 2022 and received a Tony nomination for it. On television he played the SAS founder Jock Lewes in the BBC’s SAS Rogue Heroes (2022, with a second series in 2025) and the Watergate burglar Howard Hunt’s associate in HBO’s White House Plumbers (2023).

SAS Rogue Heroes streams on iPlayer in the UK and MGM+ in the US; White House Plumbers is on HBO Max.

Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell)

Natalie Dormer’s Margaery was blown up in the Sept of Baelor in 2016, and the actress has stayed close to genre and period drama since. She played Cressida in the two Mockingjay films, led the Australian miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), and took multiple roles in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020).

Dormer also starred in Netflix’s White Lines (2020) and, in 2025, joined Amazon’s The Wheel of Time as the ambitious Aes Sedai Elaida for season three. The Wheel of Time streams on Prime Video.

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The Actor Who Never Acted: Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (The Mountain)

Gregor Clegane was played by three men, but the Icelandic strongman Hafþór Björnsson held the role from season four to the end. He was competing at the top of his sport the entire time and won World’s Strongest Man in 2018 while still filming.

In May 2020 he set the deadlift world record at 501 kg, then switched to boxing and beat his rival Eddie Hall in a 2022 bout in Dubai. He has since returned to strongman competition, and his social media remains full of training images rather than audition tapes. Acting was always a side quest.

Three Things We Noticed Tracking the Cast

Prestige television beat Hollywood blockbusters

The strongest reviews for ex-Thrones actors have come from streaming and cable drama rather than franchise films: Bean in Time, Anderson in Interview with the Vampire, Harington in Industry, Christie in Severance, Pascal in The Last of Us. Marvel gave Harington, Madden and Clarke a paycheque each, but none of those roles has been revisited in a meaningful way.

Apple TV+ has been the unexpected home for the group, hosting Momoa, Williams, Christie, Coster-Waldau and Harington on separate projects within three years.

The cast keeps working together

Reunions are frequent enough to look intentional. Cunningham and Bradley share scenes in 3 Body Problem, which David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the Thrones showrunners, created for Netflix. Harington and Turner co-led The Dreadful. Dance, Christie and Headey all cycled through Netflix fantasy adjacent to The Sandman and Masters of the Universe.

The prequels, by contrast, have avoided original cast members entirely. House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms both feature all-new ensembles.

The best careers belonged to the shortest runs

Pascal, Momoa and Madden left the show after one, two and three seasons respectively, and they now have the three biggest careers. Spending eight years in Belfast and Croatia enabled the long-serving cast to build wealth and craft, but it also tied their faces to one character in a way the early departures escaped.

FAQ

Who is the most successful Game of Thrones cast member now?

Pedro Pascal, by any measure that counts in 2025. He leads an HBO flagship in The Last of Us, a Marvel franchise as Reed Richards and a Star Wars film due in 2026, and he does prestige indie work for directors such as Celine Song and Ari Aster between them. Jason Momoa wins on raw box office, with Aquaman and A Minecraft Movie both clearing $900 million.

Did any Game of Thrones actors quit acting after the show?

Jack Gleeson stopped acting for roughly six years after Joffrey’s death in 2014, finishing a degree and working in fringe theatre before returning in 2020. Isaac Hempstead Wright has made only occasional appearances since playing Bran. Hafþór Björnsson never considered acting his career and returned fully to strongman and boxing.

Are Kit Harington and Rose Leslie still married?

Yes. The actors who played Jon Snow and Ygritte married in Scotland in June 2018 and have two children, a son born in 2021 and a daughter born in 2023. They remain among the few on-set romances from the series that turned into a long-term marriage.

Is the Jon Snow spin-off still happening?

No. HBO had a sequel series centred on Jon Snow in development with Harington attached as executive producer, but he said in 2024 that the project had been shelved because the writers could not find a story worth telling. The franchise’s live-action future currently rests on House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Where can I watch Game of Thrones in 2025?

All 73 episodes stream on HBO Max in the US, Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK, Crave in Canada and Binge in Australia. The series is also available to buy by season on Apple TV and Prime Video, and 4K Blu-ray box sets of the full run are still in print.

How many Emmys did the Game of Thrones cast win?

The series collected 59 Primetime Emmys, but only one actor took home a trophy: Peter Dinklage, who won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series four times. Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie and Carice van Houten all received nominations without winning.