Emilia Clarke was born in 1986 in London, England, into a family whose father is a theater sound engineer and mother is a businessman. Emilia’s talent for acting appeared very early, after she saw the musical Show Boat at the age of three. When she grew up, she attended the Drama Center London. Despite having a passion since childhood, Emilia Clarke started her career quite late compared to many of her peers. By 2009, at the age of 23, she had her first role, in the British television series Doctors. However, just two years later, Emilia Clarke’s name began to spread far beyond the land of fog to travel around the world when the first episode of Game of Thrones aired.
1. Mother Dragon is sexy, majestic and powerful
Up to now, Daenerys Targaryen has become Emilia Clarke’s “legendary” role on the small screen and has a fan base of millions of people around the world. In 2010, HBO made a series adapted from the book A Song of Ice & Fire by writer George R.R. Martin. In this work with countless complex character lines, the character of Mother Dragon Daenerys Targaryen is one of the most important factors. But Emilia Clarke was not the winner of the role. Initially, the role of Mother Dragon was assigned to an actress also from England – Tamzin Merchant. For some reason, Tamzin was replaced and Emilia Clarke was given the opportunity that thousands of actresses wished for.
In an interview, she recounted that during the audition process, she performed the “Funky Chicken” and Robot dances. In April 2011, the first season of Game of Thrones aired and achieved great success. Emilia Clarke has become a name that attracts attention with her mythical beauty-like appearance and luxurious aura. After each season, Game of Thrones is more successful than the previous season and over the course of seven seasons, Emilia Clarke gradually became an A-list actress, winning four prestigious Primetime Emmy nominations for her role as the Mother of Dragons. Although her height is extremely modest (1.57 meters), Emilia Clarke has a fiery body and is very willing to take off her clothes on the small screen to show off her three busts like a statue of Venus.
Game of Thrones brought fame but also seriously affected Emilia Clarke’s health. A few weeks after the end of the first season, when Emilia’s fitness trainer asked her to do a plank, she felt a rubber band tightening her brain. The actress almost had to crawl to the dressing room and kneel down because the pain became more and more intense. She was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage. After undergoing two brain surgeries, Emilia Clarke’s health gradually recovered.
2. Influential stars
Just with her role as Mother of Dragons in Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke became a name that millions of people are interested in and sought after. In 2014, she ranked first in the list of 100 most desirable women for men, according to votes from AskMen magazine readers. A year later, Esquire selected Emilia Clarke as “The world’s sexiest contemporary woman”. By 2019, the 33-year-old British actress continued to be included in the list of “100 most influential people in the world” by Time magazine.
Knowing how to take advantage of advantages and opportunities, Emilia Clarke also works hard at charity, using images to call on the public to support social activities. Especially after two brain surgeries, Emilia also established a private fund called SameYou to support young people who also unfortunately suffer from the same disease as her. The beauty is also regularly present at events calling for women’s rights in modern society.
3. New generation Rom-Com Queen
Along with television, Emilia Clarke also entered the cinema with her debut role in the romantic comedy Spike Island in 2012. However, no matter how hot she is on the small screen, when she goes on the big screen, Emilia Clarke less undressed. Her first major movie was the blockbuster Terminator Genisys (Terminator 5: Age of Genisys) in 2015. In this work, Emilia played the role of Sarah Connor – which was closely associated with senior actress Linda Hamilton. in the 80s. However, Emilia’s strong yet soft appearance has brought a new color to this character.
Possessing a luxurious face and a bright smile that easily attracts the sympathy of others, Emilia Clarke has become a sought-after face by romantic comedy film directors. In 2016, she co-starred with actor Sam Claflin in the romantic movie that brought tears to many audiences – Me Before You. With only a 20 million USD production budget, the film grossed more than 200 million USD and was one of the most successful Rom-Com films that year.
During this year’s Christmas season, Emilia Clarke continues to return to romantic films through the work Last Christmas, paired with “hybrid handsome guy” Henry Golding. The film is a sweet love story between Kate – a beautiful but bored girl with a dead-end life and Tom – a seemingly perfect guy with a warm heart. Wandering around London with a series of wrong decisions, Kate seems unable to have a decent life.
Suddenly one day, Tom, a mysterious guy appeared, went through many hardships and understood Kate’s true self… Last Christmas turned Emilia Clarke into truly the new generation “Rom-Com Queen”. replacing Sandra Bullock, Cameron Diaz or Julia Roberts in previous decades.
4. Difficult love
Possessing beauty, talent and charm, Emilia Clarke seems to have not found luck in love. She had a two-year love affair with director – actor Seth MacFarlane (Ted movie) but it failed. After co-starring in Terminator Genysis, she also dated co-star Jai Courtney but only went their separate ways for a short time. Emilia Clarke was also rumored to be dating Jared Leto, James Franco or Cory Michael Smith, but it didn’t last long. While filming Game of Thrones, she was enthusiastically “shipped” by millions of fans to actor Kit Harrington (as Jon Snow), but he got married and she was still single.
Earlier this year, after four months of dating, the love story between Emilia Clarke and director Charlie McDowell also ended. To date, at the age of 33, the beautiful “Dragon Mother” is still single and diligently making her mark on both the big and small screens.
The role of Kate in the movie Last Christmas is said to have many similarities to Emilia Clarke in real life. She had the opportunity to show off her singing ability, especially classic Christmas songs. Not only talented in acting, Emilia Clarke also has musical talent as she can sing from Ballad, Blue Jazz as well as play Piano, Guitar, and flute.
