Kit Harington
Kit Harington | |
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Born | Christopher Catesby Harington 26 December 1986 |
Alma mater | Central School of Speech and Drama |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2008–present |
Christopher Catesby "Kit" Harington[1][2] (born 26 December 1986) is an English actor. He rose to prominence playing the role of Jon Snow in the television series Game of Thrones.[3] Harington also played lead roles in the films Pompeii, Testament of Youth, and Spooks: The Greater Good, as well as supporting roles in the films Silent Hill: Revelation and Seventh Son. In 2014 Harington voiced the character of Eret in How to Train Your Dragon 2.
Early life and ancestry
Harington was born in Acton, London,[4] to Deborah Jane (Catesby), a former playwright, and David Richard Harington, a businessman.[5][6] His mother named him after Christopher Marlowe, whose first name was shortened to Kit,[7] a name Harington prefers.[8] Harington's uncle is Sir Nicholas John Harington,[9] 14th Baronet,[10] and his paternal great-grandfather was Sir Richard Harington, 12th Baronet. Through his paternal grandmother, Lavender Cecilia Denny, Kit's eight times great-grandfather was Charles II of England.[11] Also, through his father, Harington descends from politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville,[12] the bacon merchant T. A. Denny, clergyman Baptist Wriothesley Noel, merchant and politician Peter Baillie, peer William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth, and MP Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet.[13]
Harington was a pupil at the Southfield Primary School from 1992 to 1998. When he was 11, his family moved to Worcestershire,[14][15] and he studied at the Chantry High School in Martley until 2003.[16] He became interested in acting after watching a production of Waiting for Godot when he was 14,[17] and he performed in several school productions.[16] He attended Worcester Sixth Form College, where he studied Drama and Theatre Studies, between 2003 and 2005. When he was 17, he was inspired to study acting in a drama school after watching a performance by Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet in 2004.[14][18] He moved back to London when he was eighteen and a year later attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, from which he graduated in 2008.[19][20]
Career
Before acting, Harington originally wanted to become a journalist, a cameraman or a war correspondent.[21] While still at drama school, he landed the role of Albert in the National Theatre's adaptation of War Horse.[2][21][22] The play won two Olivier Awards, and gained Harington a great deal of recognition. He was later cast in his second play Posh, a dark ensemble comedy about upper-class men attending Oxford University.[2]
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After War Horse, Harington auditioned for and landed his first television role as Jon Snow in the television series Game of Thrones. The show debuted in 2011 to great critical acclaim and positive reviews and was quickly picked up by the network for a second season.[23] Harington's role is largely filmed in Iceland and Northern Ireland.[24] In 2012, Harington was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television for the role.[25]
Harington made his cinematic debut in 2012 as Vincent in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. The horror film was based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3, and was a sequel to the film Silent Hill.[26] He was honored with Actor of the Year at the Young Hollywood Awards 2013, which celebrates the best emerging young talent in film, music and television.[27] In 2014, he played Milo in the film Pompeii. It was filmed in Toronto and the actual city of Pompeii itself.[28] He also voiced Eret in How to Train Your Dragon 2,[29] which was a critically acclaimed, box-office success,[30] won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and received an Academy Award nomination.[31][32]
In 2014, he appeared alongside Jeff Bridges in the film Seventh Son, a poorly received fantasy–adventure film.[33] Harington played Roland Leighton, the main character's love interest, in Testament of Youth alongside Alicia Vikander and Emily Watson.[34] The film was released in wide distribution in the UK on 16 January 2015. Its world premiere was in The Centrepiece Gala, supported by the Mayor of London, at the British Film Institute London Film Festival in October 2014.[35][36][37] In December 2014, it was announced that he will be featured in Xavier Dolan's upcoming movie The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, alongside Jessica Chastain.[38] He starred in the 2015 HBO comedy 7 Days in Hell, a short film about a 7-day tennis match.[39] In June 2015, it was confirmed that Harington would star in Martin Koolhoven's upcoming western thriller film Brimstone, replacing Robert Pattinson.[40]
Filmography
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Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2012 | Silent Hill: Revelation | Vincent Smith | |
2014 | Pompeii | Milo | |
2014 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Eret, Son of Eret | Voice-over |
2014 | Testament of Youth | Roland Leighton | |
2014 | Seventh Son | Billy Bradley | |
2015 | Spooks: The Greater Good | Will Holloway | |
2016 | Brimstone | Samuel | Filming |
2016 | The Death and Life of John F. Donovan | Pre-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2011–present | Game of Thrones | Jon Snow | Main role |
2015 | 7 Days in Hell | Charles Poole | Television Film |
Video games
Year | Title | Role |
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2015 | Game of Thrones | Jon Snow (voice) |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008–2009 | War Horse | Albert Narracott | Olivier Theatre and New London Theatre[41][42] |
2010 | Posh | Ed Montgomery | Royal Court Theatre[2][43] |
2015 | The Vote | Colin Henderson | Donmar Warehouse[43] |
2016 | Doctor Faustus | Faustus | Duke of York's Theatre[44] |
Awards and nominations
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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2011 | Scream Award | Best Ensemble (shared with the cast) | Game of Thrones | Nominated | [45] |
Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with the cast) | Nominated | [46] | ||
IGN Award | Best TV Hero | Nominated | |||
Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actor on Television | Nominated | [25] | ||
2012 | Golden Nymph Award | Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated | ||
2013 | Young Hollywood Awards | Actor of the Year | Won | [47] | |
Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with the cast) | Game of Thrones | Nominated | [48] | |
2014 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with the cast) | Nominated | [49] | |
2015 | Empire Award | Empire Hero Award (shared with the cast) | Won | [50] | |
Online Film & Television Association Award | Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | Nominated | |||
Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actor on Television | Pending | |||
Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (shared with the cast) | Nominated | [51] |
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- ^ "Nicholas John Harington". Geneall.net. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
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- ^ "Kit Harington". EthniCelebs. Retrieved 13 July 2014.[unreliable source?]
- ^ a b Alex Bilmes (6 May 2015). "Mr Kit Harington". Mr Porter.
- ^ "Nerdist Podcast Episode 482: Kit Harington". Nerdist. 28 February 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ a b James Connell (7 April 2014). "Game of Thrones star says Worcester will always be home". Worcester News.
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- ^ Ruben V. Nepales (7 February 2014). "'Thrones' star bulked up, then slimmed down for film role". Inquirer.net.
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- ^ Tara Abell (30 March 2012). "Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Loves Iceland, Fears Flying". The Daily Traveller.
- ^ a b "Kit Harington Biography". TV Guide. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "Kit Harington - Biography". IMDb. 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- ^ "HBO Re-commissions 'Game of Thrones'". IFTN. 19 April 2011.
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- ^ a b "Nominations for the 38th Annual Saturn Awards". Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. 29 February 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
- ^ McNary, Dave (7 March 2011). "Clemens, Harington join 'Silent Hill'". Variety. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
- ^ "'Game of Thrones' Kit Harington (Jon Snow): My big break". OnTheRedCarpet.com. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
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- ^ Harmanian, Harout (20 June 2012). "'How to Train Your Dragon 2' Gets Kit Harington". MovieWeb. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "Box Office: 'How To Train Your Dragon 2' Crosses $500M Following China Debut". Forbes. 15 August 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Golden Globes: 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' Wins Best Animated Feature Film". The Hollywood Reporter. 11 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "'Birdman,' 'Budapest' lead Oscar nominations". USA Today. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Seventh Son – Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
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Further reading
- Heath, Chris (April 2014). "Kit Harington on Game of Thrones, Nudity, and His Butt Double". GQ. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
External links
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