As every Game of Thrones fan knows, winter was coming for a long, long time. The Night King and his white walkers came and went, and everyone lived happily ever after. Well, not everyone… most characters met their maker! But what happened to the cast of the most successful show ever made? Let’s find out which of the cast members lived happily ever after and which were doomed…
Sean Bean – Then
Yorkshire’s finest son, Sean Bean, was born in Sheffield in 1959. He shot to fame in the 1990s on TV as Napoleonic wartime hero Richard Sharpe and became a famous face in Hollywood. His character Alec Trevelyan battled 007 James Bond in Goldeneye.
Sean’s most famous role was playing Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, Boromir didn’t last long as, after trying to take the ring from Fordo, he was taken down by orcs while protecting the Hobbits.
Sean Bean – Now
Sean Bean lasted about the same time as Ned Stark as he did Boromir. Joffrey Baratheon had the Head of House Stark beheaded after just nine episodes! Since losing his head in season one, Bean has appeared in Silent Hill: Revelation, Possessor, and aided Matt Damon’s stranded astronaut in The Martian.
The screen legend’s recent television credits include Legends, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Snowpiercer, and the BBC’s prison series Time — for which he won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor.
Isaac Hempstead Wright – Then
Isaac Hempstead Wright was born in 1999 in Surrey, England. As a boy, he took acting classes to avoid playing soccer on cold British mornings! At a young age, Wright became interested in acting and joined a drama club to overcome his shyness. His passion for acting raised its head, and he started auditioning for roles.
Isaac’s big break came aged 10 when producers cast him as Bran Stark. His character was a blind warg and Three-Eyed Raven who possessed supernatural gifts.
Isaac Hempstead Wright – Now
Surprising every Game of Thrones fan, Bran Stark eventually won the Iron Throne (well, it was actually destroyed by Drogon’s dragon fire breath) to be crowned as the King of the Seven Kingdoms (well, it’s actually Six Kingdoms now!) Isaac dropped out of the University of Birmingham to focus on acting, but that didn’t go too well…
In 2019, the secular humanist and Harry Potter look-a-like returned to study neuroscience, saying he intended to continue acting while doing so. He last appeared in 2021’s Voyagers.
