Emma D'Arcy — Our Watch Never Ends

EMMA D’ARCY

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“RHAENYRA is a person who feels at odds with the way that she is read by the world. she has an ongoing battle with what it means to be a woman and is a fundamental outsider. It's like she has a doppelgAnger who is born male and has access to all the things that she craves and feels to be hers… she has to learn when to dampen that fire and when to trust it. She’s surrounded by a trail of ashes.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Truth Seekers (2020)

Mothering Sunday (2021)

Misbehaviour (2020)

Wild Bill (2019)

Emma Zia D'Arcy is an English actor who was born on the 27th of June, 1992 in London, England. D’Arcy, who uses they/them pronouns, is known for their work in film, television, and theater, appearing in television productions such as Truth Seekers (2020) and Wanderlust (2018). Emma now stars as Rhaenyra Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, which is a prequel of the hit series Game of Thrones. D'Arcy attended the Ruskin School of Art, an art school at the University of Oxford, studying Fine Art. They then appeared in several theater productions, including Romeo and Juliet, The Games We Played, and The Crucible at The Yard Theatre, and in theater productions of Against at the Almeida Theatre, A Girl in School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Mrs. Dalloway and Callisto: A Queer Epic at the Arcola Theatre, and Pillowman at the Oxford Playhouse.

In addition to appearing in theater, Emma has also appeared in several television productions, including Nick Payne's BBC One and Netflix co-produced series Wanderlust, starring Toni Collette, Steven Mackintosh and Zawe Ashton, which debuted in 2018. The following year, they appeared in an episode of ITV’s Wild Bill (2019), starring Rob Lowe. Afterwards, in 2020, D’Arcy joined the cast of Truth Seekers, a comedy-horror series starring Nick Frost for Amazon Prime Video, as well as the second season of the Amazon Prime action-drama series Hanna, opposite Esme Creed-Miles, Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman. They then appeared in the 2020 British comedy-drama film Mishbehavior, which was directed by Philippa Lowthorpe and co-starred Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley and their House of the Dragon co-star Rhys Ifans. In December of 2020, it was announced that Emma will star in the upcoming HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon, a prequel of Game of Thrones, as the lead character of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen, the king’s first-born child and heir to the Iron Throne. The series began production in April 2021, and it’s debut season, which consists of ten episodes, is set to premiere on August 21st, 2022. While filming House of the Dragon, they co-starred in Eva Husson’s British romantic drama film Mothering Sunday (2021), based on the novel of the same name by Graham Swift, also starring Olivia Colman and Colin Firth.