The second lives of ‘Game of Thrones’ killed-off actors

NEW YORK TIMES
By Robert RorkeApril 17, 2015 | 11:47am

Charles Dance (from left) as Tywin Lannister; Sean Bean as Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark; Pedro Pascal as Oberyn Martell.

Photo: Macall B.Polay/HBO; Nick Briggs/HBO; Helen Sloan/HBO

Death never takes a holiday on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Karma is real and the Grim Reaper can jet from Meereen to King’s Landing and Braavos and back again — laying waste to lives and dynasties. Luckily, the actors who have departed so hastily from the series, now in its fifth season, have bounced back in other TV shows and movies that are filmed around the world. Here’s where you can see them next.

Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark)

After Catelyn’s untimely demise during the Red Wedding, Fairley picked up two series, almost back-to-back: “24: Live Another Day,” where she played assassin Margot Al-Harazi, and “Resurrection,” where she played Margaret Langston, a spooky woman who returned from the dead in a town where such rebounds have become commonplace. Next up for the Irish actress: a role in Ron Howard’s “Moby Dick” drama “In the Heart of the Sea.”

Sean Bean (Ned Stark)

Bean was one of the first Starks to go to the other side, but he has not been forgotten, neither on the series nor in real life. He is currently starring on the TNT series “Legends” as Martin Odum, an FBI agent who is something of a shape-shifter. He is also filming a movie, “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt,” based on the Anne Rice (“Interview With the Vampire”) novel about the early life of Jesus Christ.

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Game of Thrones's Murdered Characters: Where Are They Now?

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Need help figuring out where to see old Game of Thrones faves these days? That's what we're here for! Click through this gallery to learn about the latest projects from all sorts of old Game of Thrones faves, from Sean Bean (Ned Stark) to Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo).

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'Game Of Thrones' Kills It At San Diego Comic-Con

The Red Wedding still looms large as actors Richard Madden, Michelle Fairley and others eulogized the key scene at Comic-Con.

By Josh Wigler (@RoundHoward) 

MTV

San Diego Comic-Con was dark and full of terrors on Friday afternoon, thanks to the "Game of Thrones" panel. Death was very much on the mind for Hall H attendees, as the panel began with an in memoriam video set to Boyz II Men's "Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" -- an appropriate way to lead in to a conversation about season three's controversial Red Wedding episode.

Gone from the show but not from fandom, actors Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley were on hand to eulogize their "Game of Thrones" characters' deaths. And even with winter coming, Madden received quite the warm welcome, walking out to chants of "The King in the North! The King in the North!" Indeed, it was revealed that "The North Remembers" is a key phrase going into season four, premiering sometime in 2014.

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‘Game Of Thrones’: Actor Talks Shocking & Shadowy Exit First Published: April 30, 2012 12:42 AM EDT Helen Sloan credit (ACCESS HOLLYWOOD)

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- The pool of would-be rulers of Westeros got a little smaller on Sunday night’s “Game of Thrones.”

 (SPOILER: This story contains plot details from “Game of Thrones,” Season 2, Episode 5.)

 Continuing to prove that the only thing predictable in “GOT” is that no one is safe, Renly Baratheon became the show’s latest casualty after he was stabbed and murdered in his tent by a shadow in the shape of his older brother, Stannis Baratheon.



The incident was the conclusion to last week’s creepy cliffhanger where, the night before the two Baratheon brothers and their armies were to meet for battle in a field, Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) rowed Melisandre (Carice van Houten) to a cave, where she gave birth to a shadow.

British actor Gethin Anthony, who played Renly, knew his kingly character’s end was coming long before it was filmed, but he told Access he was “excited” when he first got the script. “I obviously knew through reading the books that it was gonna happen at some point, but I think when I first read it as an event, I was just kind of like ‘Wow! That’s kind of cool,’ ‘cause it kind of happens in such a way that you’re not really expecting it,” Gethin told AccessHollywood.com.

“Even if you’re a reader of the books, I feel like you don’t think it’s necessarily going to happen right at that moment. As a reader — I was just like ‘Ooh, wow!’ and excited and [I] was glad it was going to happen in a kind of cool way.” Filming the scene, which sees Renly cut down by the shadow, was a multi-day process, involving Gethin, Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark) and Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth).