Emilia Clarke Biography

Emilia Clarke born Emilia Isabelle Euphemia Rose Clarke is an English actress best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series, Game of Thrones.

She attended Rye St Antony School and graduated from St Edward’s School, Oxford in 2005. She also attended the Drama Centre London from which graduated in 2009. Her interest in acting began at the age of 3 after seeing her father working on the musical Show Boat.

At the Drama Centre, Clarke appeared in a number of stage productions. She made her screen debut in a short film followed by television debut in an episode of the British soap opera Doctors in 2009 as Saskia Mayer and Savannah in Syfy’s 2010 film Triassic Attack.

Her breakthrough in the acting scene came in 2011 after being cast as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones since 2010. Game of Thrones is based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. She was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013. She was nominated two more times in the same category in 2015 and 2016.

She also appeared in Spike Island in 2012. This is a film named after the location of The Stone Roses’s seminal 1990 gig. She played Holly Golightly in a Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s from March to April 2013.

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In the year 2016, the was the female lead in the film romance film Me Before You, released on 3 June 2016. She starred in the movie opposite Sam Claflin in the role of Louisa Clark for which she shared nominations with Sam Claflin for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock and the MTV Television Tearjerker Award.

She has also been a female lead in Solo: A Star Wars Story, a film that she began appearing in November 2016. It was released worldwide on 25 May 2018.

Emilia Clarke Age | How Old Is Emilia Clarke?

Emilia was born on 23 October 1986 in London, United Kingdom. He is 32 years old as of 2018

Emilia Clarke Height | How Tall Is Emilia Clarke?

She stands at a height of 5 feet 2 inches (157.5 cm).

Emilia Clarke Family

Emilia is the daughter of Jennifer Clarke, director of a charity organization named The Anima Foundation and an unknown father who passed away on 10 July 2016. Her father was a theatre sound engineer from Wolverhampton, West Midlands. She is partly of Indian descent as her maternal grandmother was the result of a secret affair her great grandmother had with a man from the subcontinent.

Her father died from cancer in July 2016. At the time, Clarke was filming Above Suspicion in Kentucky and was unable to be home for her father’s final days. She wrapped the movie early but arrived at the airport in London to learn that he had just died. “The world felt like a scarier place once my dad wasn’t in it,” she said. “And then those two things [the other being Brexit] happening in quick succession threw me off balance and made me re-evaluate who I am.”

Emilia Clarke Brother

She has an older brother called Bennett and they grew up in Berkshire, United Kingdom.

Emilia Clarke Dating | Emilia Clarke Boyfriend

Clarke began dating Seth MacFarlane, a comedian and filmmaker in 2012. However, the two broke up six months later although they have remained friends since their separation.

She then dated Charlie McDowell in late 2018 which she confirmed they were dating via an Instagram post they both made on her birthday.

Emilia Clarke Husband

As of February 2019, Emilia is not married in real life but her character Daenerys Targaryen on Game of thrones has two spouses Drogo and Hizdahr zo Loraq.

Emilia Clarke Net Worth

In 2017, Emilia Clarke reportedly became one of the highest paid actors on television, earning £2 million per episode of Game of Thrones. She has an estimated net worth of $34 million.

Emilia Clarke Brain Aneurysms

In a March 2019 article, Clarke wrote for The New Yorker, she revealed she had a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a form of stroke caused by a ruptured aneurysm, in 2011. Clarke underwent urgent endovascular coiling surgery, and subsequently suffered from aphasia, at one point unable to recall her own name. She had a second aneurysm surgically treated in 2013.

Emilia Clarke Star Wars

In November 2016, Clarke was cast as the female lead in Solo: A Star Wars Story, released worldwide on 25 May 2018.

Emilia Clarke Game Of Thrones | Emilia Clarke GOT | Emilia Clarke Game Of Thrones Character

In Game of Thrones, Clarke portrays the character of Daenerys Targaryen, a fictional character in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, as well as G.O.T, its television adaptation. Daenerys Targaryen is a prominent point of view character in the novels. She is one of the most popular characters in the series, and The New York Times cites her as one of the author’s finest creations.

Introduced in 1996’s A Game of Thrones, Daenerys is one of the last two surviving members (along with her older brother, Viserys) of House Targaryen, who, until fourteen years before the events of the first novel, had ruled Westeros from the Iron Throne for nearly three hundred years.

In the story, Daenerys is a young woman in her early teens living in Essos. Knowing no other life than one of exile, she remains dependent on her abusive older brother, Viserys. She is forced to marry Dothraki horselord Khal Drogo in exchange for an army for Viserys, who is to return to Westeros and recapture the Iron Throne. Her brother loses the ability to control her as Daenerys finds herself adapting to life with the khalasar and emerges as a strong, confident and courageous woman. She becomes the heir of the Targaryen dynasty after her brother’s death and plans to reclaim the Iron Throne herself, seeing it as her birthright.

A pregnant Daenerys loses her husband and child, but soon helps hatch three dragons from their eggs, which regard her as their mother, providing her with a tactical advantage and prestige. Over time, she struggles to maintain control of her dragons. She also acquires an army with which she conquers the cities of Yunkai, Astapor and Meereen, determined to end slavery and injustice there. Despite her strong moral compass, she is capable of dealing ruthlessly with her enemies, particularly the slave masters. After establishing herself as a powerful and relentless ruler, she sails for her homeland of Westeros, bent on reclaiming the Seven Kingdoms.

Below is a sneak peak of Clarke in Game of Thrones in Season 7 episode 6:

Emilia Clarke Terminator

Clarke played Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys (2015), opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jai Courtney, and Jason Clarke. Below is the Synopsis:

When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance against Skynet, sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect his mother, Sarah (Emilia Clarke), from a Terminator assassin, an unexpected turn of events creates an altered timeline. Instead of a scared waitress, Sarah is a skilled fighter and has a Terminator guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger) by her side. Faced with unlikely allies and dangerous new enemies, Reese sets out on an unexpected new mission: reset the future.
Initial release: 25 June 2015 (Singapore)
Director: Alan Taylor
Box office: 440.6 million USD
Film series: The Terminator
Featured song: Terminated

Emilia Clarke Emmys | Emilia Clarke Hair

Emilia Clarke at the 2018 Emmys and Hair

Clarke is a natural brunette. She however bleached her hair blonde. She told Vanity Fair that the initial motivation for the hair color change was hair fatigue. This is because like most Targaryens, Daenerys’ icy-white hair is her defining feature, which means that Clarke has spent the better part of the last decade wearing platinum wigs. “I got to a point where I said I just want to look in the mirror and see something different,” she explains. “So I was just like, ‘Fuck it, it’s the last season. I’m going to dye my hair blond.’”

Emilia Clarke Movies and TV Shows

Emilia Clarke Movies | Emilia Clarke Filmleri | Emilia Clarke Film

• 2019 – Last Christmas
• 2018 – Solo: A Star Wars Story
• 2017 – Voice from the Stone
• 2016 – Me Before You
• 2015 – Terminator Genisys
• 2013 – Dom Hemingway
• 2012 – Spike Island
• 2012 – Shackled
• 2009 – Drop the Dog
• TBA – Above Suspicion

Emilia Clarke Tv Shows

• 2017 – Animals.
• 2017 – Thunderbirds Are Go
• 2016 – Robot Chicken
• 2013 – Futurama
• 2011–present Game of Thrones
• 2010 – Triassic Attack
• 2009 – Doctors

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Emilia Clarke worried that she would lose her ability to act after 2 life-threatening brain aneurysms, but said filming ‘Game of Thrones’ helped her cope

Adopted from: www.buzzfeed.com
Published: April 9, 2019

In March 2019, in a deeply personal essay for The New Yorker, “Game Of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke revealed that she suffered two life-threatening brain aneurysms in her 20s. The actor experienced her first aneurysm in 2011, after filming the first season of “Game of Thrones.”

Clarke was diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), what she described in The New Yorker as “a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into the space surrounding the brain.”

In a new interview with “CBS This Morning,” Clarke said she struggled with feeling “down” after her first aneurysm. But filming the HBO program provided her with hope.

“You go on the set, and you play a badass character, and you walk through fire, and you speak to hundreds of people, and you’re being asked to be — to work as hard as you possibly can,” Clarke told CBS’ Tracy Smith. “And that became the thing that just saved me from considering my own mortality.”

In 2013, when the actor suffered a second aneurysm, she said the recovery process was more difficult.

“The second one, there was a bit of my brain that actually died,” Clarke said. “If a part of your brain doesn’t get blood to it for a minute, it will just no longer work. It’s like you short circuit. So, I had that.”

What made things especially challenging for Clarke was the doctors not knowing at first how the aneurysms would impact her life.

“They didn’t know what it was. So they were literally looking at my brain and they were like, ‘oh we think it could be her concentration, we think it could be her peripheral vision.’ I always say it’s my taste in men — it’s no longer there,” she joked.