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Gwendoline Christie (born 28 October 1978 [1]) is an English actress.She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017).
Brienne's mother died when she was a child, and she had a single older brother, Galladon, who drowned when she was 8, and two younger sisters, both of whom died in infancy. Brienne as a child was under the tutelage of Septa Roelle, who found fault in everything about Brienne and destroyed her self-esteem.
Brienne of Tarth (portrayed by Gwendoline Christie) is a former member of Renly Baratheon's Kingsguard. She is a highly trained and skilled warrior made even more dangerous by the fact that men underestimate her.
Gwendoline Christie brought her A-game to Paris Fashion Week when she was seen walking the runway at a show dressed as a life-size porcelain doll.
Later, Qyburn informs Jaime that Brienne will not be ransomed by Locke. He blackmails the party leader, Steelshanks, to order their return to Harrenhal. There, Jaime finds that Brienne has been forced to fight a grizzly bear while armed only with a wooden sword. Jaime leaps into the pit to protect her and manages to free Brienne from Locke and ...
[31] [32] He follows Brienne of Tarth, knowing that she was searching for Tyrion's wife Sansa Stark. He becomes Brienne's squire and serves her as faithfully as he did Tyrion. [33] [34] He and Brienne are captured by the Brotherhood Without Banners, and Podrick is sentenced to be hanged for serving as Tyrion's squire. His fate is currently unknown.
1st episode of the 6th season of Game of Thrones "The Red Woman" Game of Thrones episode Episode no. Season 6 Episode 1 Directed by Jeremy Podeswa Written by David Benioff D. B. Weiss Featured music Ramin Djawadi Cinematography by Gregory Middleton Editing by Crispin Green Original air date April 24, 2016 (2016-04-24) Running time 50 minutes Guest appearances Owen Teale as Alliser Thorne Ben ...
For the role of Brienne the producers chose the English actress Gwendoline Christie. According to the character's creator George R. R. Martin, when he saw the first batch of auditions he saw "a dozen actresses who were reading for Brienne and one actress who was Brienne," and it was one of the cases when there wasn't any debate. [5]