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- Birth nameGemma Elizabeth Whelan
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- Gemma Elizabeth Whelan (born April 23, 1981) is an English actress and comedian, best known for playing Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones.
Whelan attended The King's High School for Girls in Warwick. In addition to being an actor and comedian, Whelan is also a professional dancer specializing in the tap and jazz dance styles. She is a member of the dance troupe the Beaux Belles, based in London. She is also trained in musical theatre and has a mezzo-soprano singing voice. Whelan can speak conversational Spanish. She lives in London. In July 2017, she was expecting her first child with husband Gerry. She gave birth to their daughter a few months later.
Whelan is vegetarian but had eaten meat on the sets of Game of Thrones.
As a comedian, Whelan won the Funny Women Variety Award for stand-up comedy in 2010. She often performs stand-up in character as Chastity Butterworth and in 2014 she recorded a pilot chat show for BBC Radio 4 called The Chastity Butterworth Show.
On screen, she has played supporting roles in several films and TV shows, including in the 2010 films Gulliver's Travels and The Wolfman. She has had roles in comedies including Upstart Crow, Uncle and The Agency.
In August 2011, she was cast as Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama television series Game of Thrones, and appeared as a recurring cast member from the second season onward.
- IMDb mini biography by: ahmetkozan
- SpouseGerry Howell(2017 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenChild
- RelativesMatt Whelan(Sibling)
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- In addition to being an actor and comedian, she is also a professional dancer specialized in the tap and jazz dance styles. She is also trained in musical theatre and has a mezzo-soprano singing voice.
- In July 2017, she announced that she was expecting her first child with husband Gerry. She gave birth to their daughter a few months later.
- Despite being a vegetarian, she had eaten meat on the sets of Game of Thrones (2011).
- She is the audiobook narrator of the Jessica Townsend "Nevermoor" book series.
- She can speak conversational Spanish.
- We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.
- Brilliant documentaries are about so much more than their subject.
- There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
- I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.
- I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.
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