Kit Harington | |
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.jpg) Harington at the season eight premiere of Game of Thrones in 2019 | |
| Born | Christopher Catesby Harington 26 December 1986 London, England |
| Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
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Christopher Catesby "Kit" Harington[2] (born 26 December 1986) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and two nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and Critics' Choice Television Awards.
A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Harington made his professional acting debut in 2009 with the lead role of Albert Narracott in the West End play War Horse. He has since returned to the West End taking roles in productions of The Children's Monologues (2015), The Vote (2015), Doctor Faustus (2016), and True West (2018–2019). He portrayed the titular role in the revival of William Shakespeare's Henry V (2022). He currently is starring in the London transfer of the Jeremy O. Harris play Slave Play (2024).
He developed, produced, and starred as Robert Catesby in the 2017 BBC drama series Gunpowder.[3] He has also acted in the Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy anthology series Modern Love (2021), the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations (2023), and the HBO/BBC One drama series Industry (2024). He has acted in films such as the historical action drama Pompeii (2014), the period drama Testament of Youth (2014), and the drama The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2018). He portrayed Dane Whitman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021), and a voiced Eret, a dragon hunter in the second and third films of the How to Train Your Dragon film series (2014–2019).
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