Biography
Emilia Clarke is an English actress. She was born on 23 October 1986 in London.
Clarke trained at Drama Centre London, graduating in 2009. Her first professional television role was a guest appearance in the BBC One series Doctors in 2009. She rose to international prominence playing Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Her film roles include Sarah Connor in Terminator Genisys (2015), Qi'ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Louisa Clark in Me Before You (2016) and Kate Andrich in Last Christmas (2019). In 2024 she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for charity work.
