english actor ( active 2011- )

Isaac Hempstead Wright is an english actor. He is full known for his function as Bran Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones ( 2011–2019 ), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Young Supporting Actor in a television receiver Series. He besides voiced Eggs in the 2014 animated film The Boxtrolls. [ 1 ]

early life [edit ]

Isaac Hempstead Wright was born in Surrey, England. [ 2 ] His mother and don are both teachers, and his step-father runs a print caller. [ 3 ] He studied at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Faversham, Kent. He had no interest in acting until he joined a drama club to avoid playing football on Saturday mornings during the cold months of the year ; he late studied acting at the Kent Youth Theatre in Canterbury. [ 4 ]

career [edit ]

Hempstead Wright began his acting career by auditioning and acting in commercials. [ 4 ] Hempstead Wright ‘s big break was as Bran Stark in the stumble television series Game of Thrones, which premiered in April 2011. He was part of the initial star casting and remained a member of the starring cast for the second, third, and fourth seasons, which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations as Outstanding Performance by an ensemble in Drama Series at the 18th and 20th riddle Actors Guild Awards. [ 4 ] He did not appear in Season 5, [ 5 ] but returned as share of the main cast in temper 6. [ 6 ] The eighth and final examination season of the show premiered in April 2019, with Hempstead Wright in a star function, making him one of a handful of Game of Thrones actors who have remained on the show over its nine years of product. Hempstead Wright ‘s film debut was as Tom Hill in the repugnance film The Awakening, which premiered in September 2011. Hempstead Wright besides had a back function in the 2013 crime thriller Closed Circuit. [ 7 ] Hempstead Wright besides voice acted in the 2014 animated fantasy-comedy film, The Boxtrolls, a 2014 sequence of the American usher Family Guy, [ 8 ] and Part 2 of the 2016 television receiver particular Revolting Rhymes. Hempstead Wright appears in the Foals sung “ Exits “ music video. Directed by Albert Moya, it besides features french actress Christa Théret as students at a clandestine fencing academy in a random serial of interconnect vignettes of a surrealist nature. The video was filmed in Budapest. [ 9 ]

In 2018, Hempstead Wright was cast in the feature film The Blue Mauritius. The burglarize movie was expected to begin filming in Cape Town, South Africa in mid-2018 but has remained in pre-production. As of 2021, he is even attached to the project. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In April 2019, it was announced that Hempstead Wright was attached to the approaching sci-fi film Voyagers as part of an ensemble cast which includes Colin Farrell and Tye Sheridan. The movie was produced in 2019 and was released in April 2021. [ 12 ] [ 13 ]

personal liveliness [edit ]

Beginning in 2017, Hempstead Wright was a student at the University of Birmingham until dropping out early in arrange to focus on his acting career. [ 14 ] In 2019 he returned to university to study neuroscience at University College London, saying that he intended to continue to act while doing indeed. [ 15 ] [ 16 ]

In December 2019, Hempstead Wright, a laic humanist, became a patron of the humanist charity Humanists UK. [ 17 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

Year

Title

Role

Notes

2011

The Awakening

Tom

2013

Closed Circuit

Tom Rose

2014

The Boxtrolls

Eggs

Voice Role

2021

Voyagers

Edward

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