2022 has been a huge year for her, co-starring in the new Mission: Impossible movie and in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand)Īs the last woman standing in Dorne, Indira Varma endured one of the show's more wasted storylines, but at least she got some career opportunities out of the deal. This past April she worked with Eggers again, this time opposite Nicole Kidman in the upcoming The Northman. Last year she played Queen Guenivere in The Green Knight. She played the mother of the Puritan family besieged by supernatural forces in director Robert Eggers's The Witch. Though she met a cruel fate at the hands of Littlefinger over the moon door, Kate Dickie managed to pivot off Game of Thrones to become an oft-occuring character actress.
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Since then, Dormer has starred in films like the 2018 thriller In Darkness, which she also co-wrote, as well as the TV series Picnic at Hanging Rock for Amazon and Penny Dreadful: City of Angels at Showtime. Queen Margaery was tragically killed when Cersei blew up the Sept of Baelor at the end of season six. His portrayer, Tobias Menzies, however, was able to parlay that role (as well as his leading role on Outlander) into a memorable portrayal of Prince Philip on The Crown. None of the Tullys met particularly cheerful ends, but poor surrendering Edmure sure went out on a down note. Elsewhere, Williams starred in the HBO miniseries Two Weeks to Live. It was finally released in August of 2020, when most theaters were shut down due to the pandemic. That film was originally slated to be released in April of 2018 but was subjected to numerous release-date changed amid bad buzz for the film and Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Maisie Williams (Arya Stark)Īnother Game of Thrones star whose post-show career sat on a shelf for a while, Maisie Williams's big follow-up to Arya was supposed to be New Mutants, the X-Men affiliated movie that also starred Anya Taylor-Joy. Only recently did she finally get the chance to step back into the spotlight in the plum role of Lucifer in Netflix's The Sandman. Abrams-produced Star Wars trilogy before Thrones ended, but that was largely seen as a waste of her talents.
Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth)Ĭonsidering the way Game of Thrones ended, few cast members retained the goodwill from the rest of the series as well as Christie did, as her Brienne ended the series knighted and heroic. This March he starred Netflix's Against the Ice, playing a Danish explorer in 1909 on an expedition to frigid Greenland. His 2020 thriller The Silencing, in which he starred opposite Annabelle Wallis, was swallowed up by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its South by Southwest premiere cancelled and ultimately a quiet VOD release on DirecTV. The Danish actor behind Kingslayer-with-a-heart-of-gold Jamie Lannister hasn't been on the screen much since the series ended. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) in the HBO miniseries The White House Plumbers. Her biggest post- Thrones role is one that hasn't arrived just yet, as she's set to play the wife of Watergate burglar E. Last year, she joined an all-star cast that included Karen Gillan, Michelle Yeoh, Carla Gugino, and Angela Bassett as a sisterhood of assassins in the film Gunpowder Milkshake. Her first post GOT credits were voice roles, including parts on Cartoon Network's Infinity Train and Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revelation. In the immediate aftermath of Game of Thrones, it made sense that the woman behind Cersei Lannister would be looking for a break.
So who tops our ranking of the show's 25 most successful post- Game of Thrones careers? Place your bets. It's been three years since the finale of Game of Thrones, and the distribution of its cast members across the entertainment landscape has been vast, but some GOT cast members have been able to leverage their fame better than others.
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