Hannah Murray

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“The best part of playing Gilly has been the fact that she is constantly surprised and thrilled by the world around her. there is so much wonder for her because everything is new. That’s been really enjoyable and has also taught me so much about gratitude and joy. It’s taught me not to take anything for granted.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Skins (2008)

Charlie Says (2018)

God Help the Girl (2014)

Detroit (2017)

Tegan Lauren-Hannah Murray, best known as Hannah Murray, is an English actress, born on the 1st of July, 1989 in Bristol, England. Her parents work at Bristol University, her father as a professor and her mother as a research technician. Murray earned an English degree at Queens' College, Cambridge. She also attended North Bristol Post 16 Centre, and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Young Company. She is best known as playing Cassie in Skins (2007–2013) and Gilly in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), for which she has been nominated along with her castmates for three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

At the age of 17, Murray heard about an audition for young actors in Bristol, and decided to audition for the experience. The auditions were for the E4 teen drama series Skins. She impressed the producers of the series and was cast as Cassie Ainsworth, a gentle and creative but self-destructive teenager with an eating disorder. Murray went on to appear in the first two series, from 2007 to 2008. She left at the end of the show's second series to make way for a new generation of characters. Following Skins in May 2008, Murray made her stage debut as Mia in the critically acclaimed That Face, a West End production at the Duke of York's Theatre, in which she was highly praised for her performance. That same year, she had a small role in the black comedy In Bruges, but her scene was cut from the film. In 2009, Murray appeared in the ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, playing Dorothy Savage. She also appeared in the thriller film Womb (2010). On 8 August 2011, HBO confirmed that Murray would portray Gilly in the second and third seasons of Game of Thrones. She was upgraded to a series regular for the fourth season and remained on the series until it’s end in 2019.

Her notable film roles include the 2014 musical romance film Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl which won her a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and 2015 drama film Jeppe Rønde's Bridgend for which she won the Tribeca Film Festival for Best Actress Award. In 2016 Murray played Sylvia Ageloff, a young Jewish American intellectual from Brooklyn and a confidante of Trotsky, in the film The Chosen. In 2017, Murray starred in Kathryn Bigelow's drama Detroit, based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 12th Street Riot. In 2018, she played the lead role of Leslie "Lulu" Van Houten, the American convicted murderer and former member of the Manson Family, in the film Charlie Says by Mary Harron. Murray’s next television venture following Thrones was American series The Expecting (2020), appearing opposite Oscar winner Mira Sorvino.