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The Door (Game Of Thrones)
"The Door" is the fifth episode of the Game of Thrones season 6, sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'', and the 55th overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Jack Bender. Bran Stark learns the origin of the White Walkers, Jon Snow (character), Jon Snow plans to unite the north against the Boltons, Euron Greyjoy reveals his return to the Iron Islands at the Kingsmoot, Tyrion Lannister meets with the Red Priestess Kinvara, and Daenerys Targaryen sees the depths of Jorah Mormont's devotion to her. "The Door" received universal acclaim from critics, who found the episode to be emotional with effective action sequences involving the White Walkers and Hodor, in addition to providing "important answers regarding [the show]'s mythos." The adaptation of the Kingsmoot as well as Daenerys's farewell to Jorah were also listed as high points of the episode. Hodor's origin story was presented to the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Of Thrones
''Game of Thrones'' is an American Fantasy television, fantasy Drama (film and television), drama television series created by David Benioff and for HBO. It is an adaptation of ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of high fantasy novels by , the first of which is ''A Game of Thrones''. The show premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons. Set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, ''Game of Thrones'' has a large ensemble cast and follows several story arcs throughout the course of the show. The first major arc concerns the Iron Throne (A Song of Ice and Fire), Iron Throne of the World of A Song of Ice and Fire#Seven Kingdoms, Seven Kingdoms of Westeros through a web of political conflicts among the noble families either vying to claim the throne or fighting for independence from whoever sits on it. The second major arc focuses on the last descendant of the realm's deposed r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Portman
Daniel Porter (born 13 February 1992), known professionally as Daniel Portman, is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the role of Podrick Payne in the television series ''Game of Thrones'' (2012–2019). He has since appeared as Stuart in the '' Black Mirror'' episode " Loch Henry" (2023). Early life Portman is the son of actor Ron Donachie and Fiona Biggar, and has a sister Naomi. He was born in Glasgow and grew up in Strathbungo on the city's Southside. He attended Shawlands Academy, where he played rugby and was named Head Boy. He then pursued a Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Acting at Reid Kerr College in Paisley. Career Portman has been acting since he was 16 years old. His first role was in the 2010 film '' Outcast'', in which he starred as Paul. This was followed by a role in popular Scottish soap opera '' River City''. His second film role was a small part in Scottish comedy '' The Angels' Share'' in 2012. It was announced on 24 August 2011 that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson
Of Monsters and Men is an Icelandic indie folk/Folk rock, rock band formed in Garðabær in 2010. It consists of lead singer and guitarist Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, singer and guitarist Ragnar Þórhallsson, Ragnar "Raggi" Þórhallsson, lead guitarist Brynjar Leifsson, drummer Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson, and bassist Kristján Páll Kristjánsson. The band won the Músíktilraunir in 2010, an annual Battle of the Bands in Iceland. In 2011, Of Monsters and Men released an EP titled ''Into the Woods (EP), Into the Woods''. Their 2011 debut album, ''My Head Is an Animal'', reached the No. 1 position in Australia, Iceland, and Ireland, as well as on the US rock and alternative charts, while peaking at No. 6 on the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 album chart, No. 3 in the UK, and top 20 of most European and Canadian charts. Its lead single, "Little Talks", was an international success, reaching the top 10 in most music charts in Europe, including No. 1 in Ireland and Ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Þórhallsson
Ragnar "Raggi" Þórhallsson (born 6 March 1987) is an Icelandic musician. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist, along with Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, of the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and Men. Early life Ragnar attended Fjölbrautaskólinn í Garðabæ, a school in Garðabær. Ragnar got his first guitar at the age of 9 but did not start playing until 17. Of Monsters and Men Ragnar joined the band in 2010. The band then entered the 2010 annual Icelandic music competition Músíktilraunir, which they won. They soon released their debut studio album '' My Head Is an Animal'' in late 2011. The album charted in multiple regions and the band gained popularity worldwide. After the Seattle radio station KEXP KEXP-FM (90.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a non-commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station in Seattle, Seattle, Washington, United States, specializing in indie music programmed by its disc jockeys. KEXP's studios are located at the Seattle Cent ... broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (born 6 May 1989) is an Icelandic musician. She originally performed solo, under the name Songbird. She is the co-lead vocalist and guitarist of the Icelandic indie folk band Of Monsters and Men. In 2023, she released her debut solo album, titled ''How to Start a Garden''. Biography Nanna was raised in Garður, a town in southwestern Iceland. She attended music school as a child and prior to the formation of the group Of Monsters and Men, she had a solo musical project called Songbird. She wrote and performed music on open mic nights around Reykjavík and was a video store clerk. Of Monsters and Men Following her Songbird phase, Nanna recruited five musicians who eventually became Of Monsters and Men in 2010. After a week of working together, they won the annual music competition Músíktilraunir. They released their debut studio album, '' My Head Is an Animal'', in late 2011. It charted in multiple regions, and the band gained popularity worldwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Mortemore
Sally Mortemore is an Engllish stage, film and television actress. She appeared in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'', where she played Madame Pince, the librarian of Hogwarts. Career Mortemore first worked in theatre as an acting assistant stage manager at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch followed by seasons at the Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke, Watford's Palace Theatre, Bolton's Octagon Theatre and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, London. She also toured with the David Glass Ensemble, Redshift, Cleanbreak Theatre Company and Great Eastern Stage. Mortemore appeared as Gertrude in David Glass' production of '' Gormenghast'' in 2006/2007. Her film and television appearances include '' White Heat'' BBC2/ITV (2012), ''Ollie Kepler's Expanding Purple World'' (2010), '' Salt Grain'' (2010), ''Dead Gorgeous'', ''Too Many Cooks'', ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as Madame Pince and '' Wire in the Blood'' and ''Daphne & Apollo'' for the BBC as directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Anthony
Kate Anthony (born 11 April 1964) is an English actress best known for her role as Pam Hobsworth on the ITV soap ''Coronation Street''. Career She has appeared in ''Doctors'' playing Ellen Murray, '' Sparkhouse'' playing Jenny Bullock, ''Casualty'' playing Angela Phillips and '' As Time Goes By''. More recently she has appeared in '' Totally Frank'', Heartbeat and ''EastEnders'' playing Annie Grey. She played the role of Pam Hobsworth in the ITV soap ''Coronation Street'' from July 2008 to December 2010. She also had a small role in ''My Parents Are Aliens'' as the Inspector Mrs. Morris. She has had numerous theatrical roles including ''The Cherry Orchard'' with Judi Dench and prior to taking the role in Coronation Street, she toured Scotland in '' The Odd Couple'' with her closest friend Gerard Kelly. Anthony starred in Northern Broadsides' production of Rutherford and Son with Barrie Rutter, West Yorkshire Playhouse's Alan Bennett production of Untold Stories and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Croft
Sebastian Theodore Kemble Croft (born 16 December 2001) is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor on stage before making his television debut as Young Ned Stark in ''Game of Thrones'' (2016). He earned a BAFTA Children's Award nomination for his role in '' Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans'' (2019). He has since starred in the Netflix series '' Heartstopper'' (2022–2023). Croft's voice work includes the film ''Where Is Anne Frank'' (2021), "Ice", an instalment of the Netflix anthology ''Love, Death & Robots'' (2021) and voice option one for the player character in the game ''Hogwarts Legacy''. Early life Croft was born on 16 December 2001 in Oxford to an English father and a Greek Cypriot mother. Croft was named after Lord Sebastian Flyte, one of the main characters of Evelyn Waugh's novel ''Brideshead Revisited''. He began taking acting classes at the Abingdon-on-Thames branch of Stagecoach when he was seven and at Michael Xavier's MX Mastercla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Lepkowski
Gerald Lepkowski is a British-Australian television and stage actor, who has had guest roles in Australian and British productions, before landing the lead role in drama series '' Dirt Game'' in Australia in 2009. Early life Born in 1966 the Sighthill area of Glasgow, Scotland, Lepkowski is the second child of Edward Lepkowski, a carpet fitter of Polish descent; and Catherine Lepkowski (née Murray). He has a brother, Edward Jr, and a sister, Carol. While travelling in Australia in his early twenties, Lepkowski became interested in acting and trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts where he met his future wife, fellow British-born thespian, Frances O'Connor. Career Lepkowski worked extensively in Australia on the stage, including playing Tysefew in '' The Dutch Courtesan'', Claudio in ''Much Ado About Nothing'', Roger & Arthur in ''The Balcony'', Vershinin in '' Three Sisters'', Krogstaad in ''A Doll's House'' and Orsino in ''Twelfth Night'', all wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ania Bukstein
Ania Bukstein (; Russian: Аня Букштейн, ''Anya Bukshteyn''; born 7 June 1982) is an Israeli actress, singer and pianist, performing in Hebrew, Russian, French, and English. Early life Bukstein was born as an only child in Moscow, USSR, in 1982, to a family of Russian-Jewish descent. Her parents are both doctors; her mother is a speech-language pathologist, and her father is a neuro-oncologist. Growing up in Moscow, she studied classical piano as a child starting at the age of 5, which she says she studied with a strict discipline common amongst children in the Soviet Union. She and her parents repatriated to Israel in the early 1990s when she was 7 years old, while her grandparents still live in Moscow. She began her acting career at age 12. However, in Israel she gave up her dream of becoming a professional concert pianist. As a teenager, she attended Telma Yalin Arts High School in Givatayim, Israel. After her high school graduation, she served as a soldier i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night King
The Night King is a fictional character appearing in the HBO high fantasy television series ''Game of Thrones'', based on George R. R. Martin's novel series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. He is depicted as the leader and the first of the White Walkers, having existed since the age of the First Men, and is the most dangerous and powerful of his race. The Night King is an original creation of the television adaptation, thus far having no counterpart in the novels upon which the show is based. The Night King was portrayed by British-American actor Richard Brake in seasons 4 and 5 and then by Slovak actor and stuntman Vladimir Furdik in seasons 6 to 8. Description In ''Game of Thrones'', the Night King is physically distinguished from the other White Walkers by his "crown" of pointy, frosty horns. In the novels The "Night King", as presented in the show, has not appeared in ''A Song of Ice and Fire''. In the novels, the title "Night's King" is given to the long-ago legendary 13th Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Furdik
Vladimir Furdik is a Slovak stunt performer and actor. He played the role of the Night King on the television series ''Game of Thrones'' from 2016 to 2019. Biography Vladimir Furdik was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Since the 1970s, he was a member of theater groups in Czechoslovakia. In the 1990s Furdik has already worked in Hollywood, first doing stunts for the low-budget horror film Tremors, but soon worked on The Three Musketeers. Furdik moved from the predominantly stunt work to direct acting in the 2000s. He played the role of Andrzej, a gypsy in the film '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''. Game of Thrones Furdik participated in the production of ''Game of Thrones'', following the crew to Belfast, Spain, and Croatia. For the series, he not only did stunt work, but also portrayed the antagonist the Night King in Seasons 6, 7 and 8. Filmography Stunt performer: * 1990 Tremors * 1993 The Three Musketeers * 1996 Dragonheart * 2001 Upri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
