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Kit Harington is an English actor best known for his role as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. Learn about his early life, career, awards, family, and filmography on Wikipedia.
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Kit Harington. Actor: Game of Thrones. Kit Harington was born Christopher Catesby Harington in Acton, London, to Deborah Jane (Catesby), a former playwright, and David Richard Harington, a businessman.
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Learn about the life and career of Kit Harington, the actor who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones. Find out his birth name, family background, education, awards, trivia, and more on IMDb.
- December 26, 1986
Jon Snow is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's novels and HBO series Game of Thrones, portrayed by Kit Harington. He is the illegitimate son of Ned Stark and a member of the Night's Watch, who later discovers his Targaryen heritage and claim to the Iron Throne.
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Guy Fawkes, played by Tom Cullen, is the man most closely associated with the Gunpowder Plot — and effigies of the notorious conspirator are still burned by Brits annually on Nov. 5. However, although Fawkes’ name is more commonly associated with the story of the Gunpowder Plot than Robert Catesby’s, it was in fact Catesby, played by Harington, who...
The graphic first episode of Gunpowder shows a woman named Lady Dorothy Dibdale (Sian Webber) being brutally crushed by heavy stones in a public square, for “refus[ing] to enter a plea” that she harbored “a jesuit priest in [her] house.” In the same scene, a young Catholic priest is gruesomely hanged and quartered. In reality, such punishments did ...
In episode two, Catesby and his companions are seen helping the priest John Gerard (Robert Emms) escape from the Tower of London in the dead of night. Gerard had been captured by Jesuit hunter William Wade (Shaun Dooley) and questioned over Catesby’s whereabouts — but he refused to disclose any information, resulting in his torture by waterboarding...
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In Gunpowder, Catesby is portrayed as having strained relations with his son, Robert, who he blames for the death of his wife, Catherine, in childbirth. “I am humiliated, despised and impoverished. I have nothing left except the kindness of a loving cousin,” Catesby confesses to Anne Vaux (Liv Tyler), his cousin, in the first episode. To this, Vaux...
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Gunpowder is a British TV miniseries based on the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, starring Kit Harington as Robert Catesby. The series aired on BBC One and HBO in 2017 and received mixed reviews.
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Kit Harington. Christopher Catesby " Kit " Harington (born 26 December 1986) is an English actor. He played Jon Snow in the Home Box Office television series Game of Thrones. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2016. [1] Harington was born in London. [2] His role is praised for the series.
