Emilia Clarke : (Mother of Dragons)

Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke MBE (born 23 October 1986) is an English actress.

She is best known for her portrayal of Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Emilia Clarke
Emilia Clarke in 2015
Born	Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke 23 October 1986 (age 37) London, England
Alma mater	Drama Centre London
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2009–present

 

She is also known for playing Sarah Connor in the science fiction film Terminator Genisys (2015) and Qi’ra in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018),
As well as starring in the romantic dramas Me Before You (2016) and Last Christmas (2019).

Clarke studied at Drama Centre London, appearing in a number of stage productions. Her television debut was a guest appearance in the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors in 2009, at age 22.

Clarke made her Broadway debut as Holly Golightly in the 2013 play Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and played Nina in a West End production of The Seagull that was suspended due to the COVID-19 lockdowns.

She starred as G’iah in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Secret Invasion (2023).

Early life

Emilia Clarke was born on 23 October 1986 in London. She grew up in Oxfordshire. Her father, Peter Clarke, was a theater sound engineer from Wolverhampton.

Her mother, Jennifer, was a businesswoman and is the vice-president for marketing at a global management consultancy firm as of 2020.

She has an older brother, Bennett, who works in the entertainment industry and was part of the camera department on Game of Thrones.

Clarke is part Indian, of maternal Indian origin.
Her maternal grandmother was the child of a secret affair between Clarke’s great-grandmother and a man from the Indian subcontinent,

And wore light make-up to conceal the darker complexion she had inherited from her father.

She credits this background for her family’s having a “history of fighters”, stating, “

The fact that [my grandmother] had to hide her skin color, essentially, and try desperately to fit in with everyone else must’ve been incredibly difficult.”
She stated that her grandmother “loved India more than she loved England” and as such, when she died, sixteen-year-old Clarke traveled to India to scatter her ashes.

Clarke has also emphasized her ties to India, stating that she loves her Indian heritage and sees it as an integral part of her identity.

Clarke became interested in acting at age three after seeing a production of the musical Show Boat.

When she was ten, her father took her to a West End audition for The Goodbye Girl, a musical by Neil Simon.

Clarke was privately educated at both Rye St Antony School in Headington and St Edward’s School, Oxford, which she left in 2005.

In a 2016 interview with Time Out, she stated “I went to posh boarding schools, but I wasn’t the posh girl at the posh boarding schools.”
She also stated that most of the people at her boarding school in Oxford were from Conservative backgrounds, which meant she and some of her friends often felt like outsiders.

After graduation, Clarke unsuccessfully applied to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

She worked and traveled before enrolling at Drama Centre London, where she graduated in 2009.

Game of Thrones  and worldwide recognition

Emilia Clarke’s first professional acting job was a minor part in an episode (2009) of Doctors, a medical soap opera.
She next was cast in the TV movie Triassic Attack (2010), an action comedy about a small town battling dinosaurs.

Clarke then landed her breakthrough role: Daenerys Targaryen on the hit HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–19), which was based on George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire fantasy books.

However, she was not the first actress chosen for the part. In the first pilot episode, Tamzin Merchant appeared as Daenerys, but it was subsequently decided that the character should be recast and that the episode should be reshot.

Clarke won the role that would elevate her to international stardom.

Game of Thrones centers on numerous characters battling for the Iron Throne of Westeros.
At the show’s outset, Daenerys is meek and insecure, forced into a marriage with Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo (played by Jason Momoa) as part of her brother’s scheme to become king.

However, over the course of eight seasons, she transforms into a leading contender for the throne and becomes known as the “mother of dragons,” a reference to the dragons she controls.

For her performance,
Clarke received three Emmy nominations for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series (2013, 2015, and 2016) and one nomination for outstanding lead actress in a drama series (2019).

Other credits

While in Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke pursued a film career. In 2012 she made her big-screen debut, starring in the music comedy Spike Island.

Three years later she played Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys, part of the blockbuster action series Terminator. Her costars included Arnold Schwarzenegger as the legendary cyborg.

In Me Before You (2016), Clarke was cast as the caretaker of a paralyzed man. The romantic drama, which was adapted from Jojo Moyes’s best-selling book, was a box-office hit.

Clarke then joined the Star Wars franchise, portraying Qi’ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). The sci-fi adventure grossed nearly $400 million worldwide but was considered a commercial disappointment.

Clarke later starred in the holiday comedy Last Christmas (2019), playing an aspiring singer working as an elf at a retail store. In 2022 she lent her voice to the animated family film The Amazing Maurice.

The following year she played the Skrull G’iah in the TV miniseries Secret Invasion, part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Its all-star cast included Samuel L. Jackson, Olivia Colman, and Don Cheadle.

Clarke also continued to appear on stage, and in 2013 she made her Broadway debut, playing Holly Golightly in an adaptation of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

However, it received negative reviews and closed after a month. In 2020 she began appearing in previews for her first West End play, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, but the production was halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When it officially opened in 2022, Clarke earned praise for her portrayal of the ingenue Nina.

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Personal life and public image

Emilia Clarke lives in the London Borough of Islington. She also owned a house in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles, which she purchased in 2016 and sold in December 2020.

In a 2013 interview with Allure, Clarke stated that her mother had rules when she was growing up: “Don’t do drugs, don’t have sex, and don’t touch your eyebrows.”
She stated that she was bullied as a child for “having ridiculous eyebrows”.

In an essay she wrote for The New Yorker in 2019, Clarke revealed that she had suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a ruptured aneurysm in February 2011.

She underwent urgent endovascular coiling surgery and subsequently suffered from aphasia, at one point being unable to say her name. She had a second aneurysm surgically treated in 2013.

Clarke was voted the most desirable woman in the world by AskMen readers in 2014. In 2015, she was named Esquire‘s Sexiest Woman Alive and was also recognised with the GQ Woman of the Year Award.

Clarke appeared on FHM‘s 100 Sexiest Women in the World list in 2015, 2016, and 2017. She was also included on Glamour‘s list of Best Dressed Women in 2017.

Once filming wrapped on the final season of Game of Thrones, Clarke, as a tribute to her role as Daenerys Targaryen, celebrated her time on the show with a wrist tattoo featuring a trio of flying dragons.

Health issues

In a March 2019 essay for The New Yorker, Emilia Clarke revealed that she had suffered two aneurysms during the early 2010s.

The first occurred in 2011 and required an emergency operation. For a time Clarke suffered from aphasia and was unable to communicate.

She contemplated suicide after a second, more severe aneurysm in 2013. She spent a month in the hospital and endured a great deal of pain.

In 2019 Clarke launched the charity SameYou, which seeks to improve access to neuro-rehabilitation for people who have had a stroke or brain injury.