1. Tamzin Merchant was originally cast as Daenerys Targaryen. You may know her from “The Tudors.” For whatever reason, it just didn’t work out, and the virtually unknown Emilia Clarke was brought in.
2. Alfie Allon (Theon Greyjoy) is the brother of pop singer Lily Allen.
3. Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) is a natural blonde. She dyes her hair for the show. Also, her family adopted Zunni, who plays a Direwolf on “Game of Thrones.”
4. Jack Gleeson, who plays Joffrey, was also slapped in Batman Begins.
5. Jerome Flynn (Bronn) was a pop singer, a British one-hit wonder in a boy band.
6. Like Jerome Flynn, Natalia Tena (Osha), who also played Tonks in Harry Potter, is also a singer. She’s in the band Molotov Jukebox.
7. This may freak some parents out, but Thomas Brodie-Sangster, as Jojen Reed, is not only the cousin of Hugh Grant, but he’s the voice of Ferb in Phineas and Ferb. He was also the little kid in Love, Actually.
8. You didn’t see much of him in Harry Potter, although his name is very famliar, but Stephen Dillane (Stannis Baratheon) is the real-life father of Frank Dillane, who played Tom Riddle.
9. Oona Chaplin, who plays Robb Stark’s new bride, Talisa Maegyr, is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin.
10. Harry Lloyd — who plays Viserys Targaryen — is the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens.
11. Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) played the fat one in The Full Monty.
12. Walder Frey (David Bradley) played Filch in Harry Potter.
13. Joe Dempsie (Gendry) was Chris in the original series of Skins.
14. Peter Dinklage is vegetarian – any time you see him eating “meat” on screen, it’s actually tofu.
15. Ned Stark (Sean Bean) has a “100% BLADE” tattoo on his left shoulder, in honour of his favourite football team Sheffield United, whose nickname is “The Blades”.
16. Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is a great cook.
17. Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) was on Merlin.
18. Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is dating Ygritte (Rose Leslie) in real life.
19. Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey — it’s pronounced ‘Heedy’) found out about the role through Peter Dinklage
20. Catelyn Stark (Michelle Fairley) played Mrs. Granger in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
21. Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) has never acted before — Arya is her first big role.
22. Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) played Anne Boleyn in The Tudors.
23. Ygritte (Rose Leslie) was born in Lickleyhead Castle.
24. Before Game of Thrones, Rose Leslie was in Downton Abbey.
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