English actress Gwendoline Christie was born on October 28, 1978. She is most recognized for her roles as Captain Phasma, a First Order stormtrooper, in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as well as Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019). She was nominated for the former’s Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award in 2019.
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Two of her half-brothers are older. Her father worked in sales and marketing, while her mother was a stay-at-home mom. She was raised in a village close to the South Downs.
In 2005, she received her degree from Drama Centre London. Due to her unusually tall physique, she was informed she “would definitely never work because [she] didn’t look the same as most performers,” and after expressing a desire to work in film, her agent even said, “Well, good luck with that.” The Orlando performance of Tilda Swinton gave her the motivation to keep working toward this objective. She recalls thinking, “Well, she is in a movie, she is otherworldly, and she is obviously beyond the room,” in an interview from 2017. I came to the conclusion that maybe there is room for me, too.
