Person
Gemma Whelan
Acting · Born 1981-04-23 · Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
Gemma Elizabeth Whelan (born 23 April 1981) is an English actress and comedian known for portraying Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. She also plays Kate in all seasons of the comedy Upstart Crow, Detective Eunice Noon on the first season of The End of the F***ing World on Channel 4, and Geraldine on the third season of Killing Eve.
Known for
Game of Thrones
Yara Greyjoy
The Crown
Patricia Campbell
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Solaria Butterfly (voice)
Killing Eve
Geraldine
Horrible Histories
2009
Inside No. 9
Columbina, a Maid
Hetty Feather
Ida Battersea
Emma.
Miss Taylor / Mrs. Weston
Upstart Crow
Kate
Filmography
- 2025Dexter ProcterMrs Procter
- 2025Recall Me MaybeCass
- 2025G.S.W.Dispatcher
- 2025SpikedTwinkles (voice)
- 2024National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other BrontëCharlotte Brontë
- 2024Cristóbal BalenciagaPrudence Glynn
- 2023The Famous FiveGertrude Drachmann
- 2022DI RayDCI Kerry Henderson
- 2021The TowerDS Sarah Collins
- 2021The CleanerLara
- 2021Game OverMother
- 2020Between the CoversSelf
- 2020Emma.Miss Taylor / Mrs. Weston
- 2020White House FarmAnn Eaton
- 2019FrayedHannah
- 2019Game of Thrones: The Last WatchSelf
- 2019Gentleman JackMarian Lister
- 2018Surviving Christmas with the RelativesMiranda
- 2018The Blue DoorClare
- 2018Killing EveGeraldine
- 2017The End of the F***ing WorldDC Eunice Noon
- 2017SumpKate
- 2017Queers.Bobby
- 2017Decline and FallDiane Fagan
- 2017PrevengeLen
- 2017The MoorsideKaren Matthews
- 2016The CrownPatricia Campbell
- 2016Upstart CrowKate
- 2015Not Safe for WorkDavina
- 2015Hetty FeatherIda Battersea
- 2015Star vs. the Forces of EvilSolaria Butterfly (voice)
- 2014Mapp and LuciaIrene Coles
- 2014SiblingsRuth
- 2014Almost RoyalNarrator
- 2014Alan Davies: As Yet UntitledSelf
- 2014Inside No. 9Columbina, a Maid
- 2013Sweat the Small StuffSelf - Panelist
- 2013The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!
- 2011Comedy BlapsLost Woman in the Park
- 2011Game of ThronesYara Greyjoy
- 2010Gulliver's TravelsLilliputian Rose
- 2010The WolfmanGwen's Maid
- 2010The PersuasionistsJosephine
- 200910 Minute TalesPretty Nurse
- 2009Horrible Histories
- 2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf
- —The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
- —Thanatos
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