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Kit Harington
Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK
Christopher Catesby Harington (born 26 December 1986), known professionally as Kit Harington, is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO fantasy tel…
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Christopher Catesby Harington (born 26 December 1986), known professionally as Kit Harington, is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and two nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and Critics' Choice Television Awards. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Harington made his professional acting debut in 2009 with the lead role of Albert Narracott in the West End play War Horse. He has since returned to the West End, taking roles in productions of The Children's Monologues (2015), The Vote (2015), Doctor Faustus (2016), and True West (2018–2019). He portrayed the titular role in the revival of William Shakespeare's Henry V (2022). He starred in the London transfer of the Jeremy O. Harris play Slave Play (2024). He developed, produced, and starred as Robert Catesby in the 2017 BBC drama series Gunpowder. He has also acted in the Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy anthology series Modern Love (2021), the Apple TV+ anthology series Extrapolations (2023), and the HBO/BBC One drama series Industry (2024). He has acted in films such as the historical action drama Pompeii (2014), the period drama Testament of Youth (2014), and the drama The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018). He portrayed Dane Whitman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals (2021). He voiced Eret, a dragon hunter in the second and third films of the How to Train Your Dragon film series (2014–2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kit Harington, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Eternal Return
Movie Virgil
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2026
A Tale of Two Cities
TV show Sydney Carton
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2026
The Dreadful
Movie Jago
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2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2025
The Family Plan 2
Movie Finn Clarke
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2025
Psychopomp
Movie Director
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2025
Too Much
TV show Jessica's Father
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2024
The Beast Within
Movie Noah
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2024
THE FAKE JON SNOW
Movie Jon Snow (fake)
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2024
Blood for Dust
Movie Ricky
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2023
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249
Movie Abercrombie Smith
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2023
Extrapolations
TV show Nicholas Bilton
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2023
Baby Ruby
Movie Spencer
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2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV show Self
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2022
Welcome to Wrexham
TV show Self
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2022
National Theatre Live: Henry V
Movie Henry
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2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals
Movie Self - Dane Whitman
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2021
Eternals
Movie Dane Whitman
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2021
Friends: The Reunion
Movie Self
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2021
The Game of Thrones Reunion Hosted by Conan O'Brien
TV show Self
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2020
Industry
TV show Henry Muck
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2019
My Grandparents' War
TV show Self
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2019
Modern Love
TV show Michael
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2019
Criminal: UK
TV show Alex
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2019
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Movie Self
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2019
The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Movie John F. Donovan
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2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Movie Eret (voice)
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2018
Zog
Movie Sir Gadabout (voice)
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2017
Gunpowder
TV show Robert Catesby
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2016
Brimstone
Movie Samuel
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
7 Days in Hell
Movie Charles Poole
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2015
Spooks: The Greater Good
Movie Will Holloway
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2015
Game of Thrones: Spanish Kingdom Special
Movie self
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Movie Jon Snow
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2015
Testament of Youth
Movie Roland Leighton
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2014
Seventh Son
Movie William "Billy" Bradley
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2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Movie Eret (voice)
