‘Hey, they were in Game of Thrones’—Where else have you seen these 50 GoT cast members?
13) HARRY LLOYD
The arrogant Viserys Targaryen always had it coming, and when Khal Drogo gave him his golden melty-hat in season 1’s “A Golden Crown,” we were all glad to see him go. Chalk one up for Harry Lloyd, who gave us a character we both despised and understood, a boy who was promised the world and unable to function without it.
He may look young, but the London-born Lloyd has been around for a while. He’s starred in big projects such as The Theory of Everything (pictured above, with Eddie Redmayne, 2014), Anthropoid (2016), The Iron Lady (2011 — he played a young Denis Thatcher) and Jane Eyre (2011).
Lloyd is the great-great-great grandson of the British author Charles Dickens, and he has played characters in two TV adaptations of his famous ancestor’s novels: he took on the role of Young Steerforth in David Copperfield (1999) and Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (2011). David Copperfield marked Lloyd’s first professional role (alongside another young unknown named Daniel Radcliffe). Being cast in a Dickens story freaked him out, as he told The Independent in 2011: “I got scared after that, that I’d spend my life in period dramas or would forever be playing Etonians. But that made me think: ‘Right, diversify.'”
And ‘diversify’ he did. Lloyd’s TV future saw him starring as Baines in two episodes of Doctor Who (pictured above, 2007), a series known for employing past and future Game of Thrones actors. He also has series credits on Marcella (2016), Manhattan (2014-2015), Wolf Hall (2015), Robin Hood (2006-2007) and The Bill (2005, another Game of Thrones actor-magnet).
Look for Lloyd to grace the big screen—alongside Game of Thrones costar Jonathan Pryce (the High Sparrow)—in the drama The Wife, in 2017.