Did you ever wonder where else you’ve seen members of the Game of Thrones cast? Some of them—like Ian McShane, Tobias Menzies and Indira Varma—are well-established veterans with huge lists of credits. Others, like Pedro Pascal and Daniel Portman, were little-known performers who became overnight successes after appearing on Thrones. Still others, like Isaac Hempstead-Wright, had no acting experience whatsoever before joining the cast. But almost all of them have at least one oddball credit most of us aren’t aware of.
We’ve already done one list cataloging the minor credits of 50 Game of Thrones cast members, but because this cast is so huge, we can easily do 55 more. Let’s go digging to see what we can find.
1) RICHARD MADDEN
It’s been a while since we last saw the honorable, chip-off-the-old-block Robb Stark, but Scottish born actor Richard Madden has has been doing quite nicely since getting beheaded and paraded through the Twins, thank you. Although Thrones was a big break for the young actor, he told The Telegraph he knew from the very beginning that his character wouldn’t last:
Right from the start, the other cast members would say, ‘You’ve read the books, right? You know you’re going to die?’ There were lots of tears. I’d spent more time with my on-screen mother, Michelle Fairley, over those years, than my real mother, so we were having to say goodbye as friends as well as colleagues, in the most violent and horrible way. And the whole structure of these six-monthly shoots disappeared overnight … It seemed natural to draw a line under it and move on.
And move on Madden did. Since Thrones he’s starred in the TV series Klondike (2014), Medici: Masters of Florence (2016, 2018, pictured above), Oasis (2017, with Thrones alumnus Mark Addy) and Bodyguard (2018). His movies include A Promise (2013), Cinderella (2015) and The Take (2016).
So Madden is out there. He wants to be successful and isn’t apologetic about it, as he explained to The Guardian:
I suppose ambitious isn’t the right word. I think ‘hungry’s’ the word. I’ve not got a plan. I don’t have an ambition to be a superhero. Maybe I’m a shit liar, but I don’t want to get up at 4am every morning for something I don’t care about.
Madden started out young, landing a role in the film Complicity (2000) when he was 11 years old. He then jumped straight into TV as a fresh-faced student in the Scottish BBC show Barmy Aunt Boomerang (2000, pictured above). Not wanting to be a child star, Madden headed off to school and didn’t return to theater until he was 18. He soon found work in TV on shows like Hope Springs (2009), Sirens (2011) and Birdsong (2012).
What’s next up on Madden’s busy schedule? He’s slated to appear in the feature Ibiza in 2018.
