Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke is an English actress. After a guest spot on the BBC drama series Doctors, Game of Thrones marks her first major television role.

She stars in HBO's Game of Thrones as Daenerys Targaryen. She replaced Tamzin Merchant, who played the role in the unaired pilot episode. Merchant's departure was announced on 29 April 2010 and Clarke's casting was confirmed on 21 May 2010. She was part of the initial starring cast and remains a member of the starring cast for the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth seasons.

For her work on the third season, Clarke was nominated for the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She ultimately did not win, but was nominated again in 2015 for her work on the fifth season. She lost to Uzo Aduba for he role as Suzanne Warren on Orange is the New Black.  In 2016 she received her third Emmy Award nomiation, but ulitmately lost to Dame Maggie Smith for her role as Violet Crawley on Downton Abbey.

Clarke has been cast as Sarah Connor in the Terminator reboot film. Coincidentally, fellow cast member Lena Headey also played the role as the star of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Clarke graces the cover of the March 2014 Spring Style issue of WSJ., the Wall Street Journal's bimonthly magazine. The issue contains an extensive interview in which Clarke discusses her casting and work on Game of Thrones.

Clarke reprises the role of Daenerys in Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, debuting in "The Sword in the Darkness."

Clarke claimed the lead role in the 2016 movie Me Before You with Sam Claflin and Jenna Colman.

Emilia Clarke was named Esquire 's Sexiest Woman Alive 2015.

In 2016 she was cast for the upcoming Star Wars Han Solo film.

Filmography

 * Doctors - Saskia Mayer (2009)
 * Triassic Attack - Savannah (2010)
 * Game of Thrones - Daenerys Targaryen (2011-present)
 * Spike Island (2012)
 * Shackled (2012)
 * Dom Hemingway (2013)
 * Terminator: Genisys (2015)
 * Me Before You (2016)

Quotes
"Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to."

- Emilia Clarke on her role as Daenerys Targaryen, and that fact that Daenerys isn't in Westeros so she doesn't interact with most of the cast.

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