joe dempsie

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“When I was cast as Gendry, I didn't have any of the physical attributes the part required. I was astounded that I got the role, to be honest. I still want to find out who Gendry’s mother was. I have a theory that it was Cersei and he was actually her and Robert’s only biological child.”



ALSO KNOWN FOR

Skins (2007)

Deep State (2019)

Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)

Pieces of Her (2021)


Joseph Maxwell Dempsie is an English actor, born on the 22nd of June 1987 in Liverpool, England. He grew up in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, where his Scottish father was a social worker. Dempsie received his acting training from the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham, and was also educated at The West Bridgford School. He is best known for his roles as Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and as Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2019).

Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000), Doctors (2001–2003), and Sweet Medicine (2003), as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands (2003). He also appeared in This is England '86 (2010), it’s sequel series This is England '90 (2015), and Born and Bred, a BBC documentary-drama about Tony Martin. Dempsie has also appeared as the villainous John in The Fades (2011), as well as Duncan McKenzie in 2009's The Damned United, starring alongside notable English actors Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham and Timothy Spall. In November 2008, he appeared in “The Moment of Truth,” episode 10 of the BBC show Merlin. He plays Will, who is an old friend of Merlin's, from the village in which they grew up together. In 2010, he then voiced Steven, a gay teenager from Nottinghamshire in the Radio 4 play Once Upon a Time.

In 2011, Dempsie joined the cast of HBO’s hit fantasy series Game of Thrones during it’s first season as the king’s bastard son, Gendry Baratheon, based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels. He appeared in the first three seasons, and later returned for the seventh season, as well as it’s eighth and final season. During his run on Thrones, Dempsie also starred in several films, including Blitz (2011), Monsters: Dark Continent (2014), Burn Burn Burn (2015), Dark River (2017) and Been So Long (2018). More recent television credits include the British espionage thriller series Deep State (2018-2019), the four-part Channel 4 drama series Adult Material (2019) and the Netflix thriller series Pieces of Her (2021), starring Oscar nominee Toni Collette, which is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Karin Slaughter.



FILMOGRAPHY

2022 Pieces of Her (TV Series)
Nick (7 episodes)

2020 Aftertaste (Short)
Alfie

2020 Adult Material (TV Series)
Rich (4 episodes)

2011-2019 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Gendry Baratheon (24 episodes)

2018-2019 Deep State (TV Series)
Harry Clarke (16 episodes)

2018 Been So Long
Kestrel

2017 Dark River
David

2016 Deep Swimmer
Mark Kennedy

2016 Waiting for the Boatman
Cecco

2016 Retribution (TV Mini Series)
Rob Elliot

2016 Ellen (TV Movie)
Jason

2015 Burn Burn Burn
James

2015 This Is England '90 (TV Mini Series)
Higgy

2015 The Gamechangers (TV Movie)
Jamie King

2014 Monsters: Dark Continent
Frankie Maguire

2014 New Worlds (TV Mini Series)
Ned

2013 Southcliffe (TV Mini Series)
Chris Cooper

2012 Murder (TV Mini Series)
Stefan

2012 Accused (TV Series)
Martin Cormack (1 episode)

2011 Moving On (TV Series)
Kieran Murphy (1 episode)

2011 The Fades (TV Mini Series)
John

2011 Blitz
Theo Nelson

2010 Devil in the Fog (TV Mini Series)
George Treet

2010 Lucy Island
David

2010 Edge
Philip

2010 This Is England '86 (TV Mini Series)
Higgy

2009 The Damned United
Duncan McKenzie

2008 Listen to the Words
Tim

2008 Merlin (TV Series)
William (1 episode)

2008 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Cline (1 episode)

2007-2008 Skins (TV Series)
Chris (19 episodes)

2005 Born and Bred (TV Series)
Humphrey 'Bogie' Locke (1 episode)

2001-2004 Doctors (TV Series)
Danny / Lee Lindsay (2 episodes)

2003 Sweet Medicine (TV Series)
Ben Campbell (1 episode)

2003 One for the Road
The 'TWOC'ers'

2002 Heartlands
Craig

2000 Peak Practice (TV Series)
Leon (1 episode)