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Gwendoline Christie

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Gwendoline Christie (born 28 October 1978) is an English actress. She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). For the former, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. Christie has since appeared in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman and Wednesday (both 2022), and the Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller series Severance (2025), received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 2025. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gwendoline Christie is the 3,552nd most popular actor (down from 3,262nd in 2019), the 3,148th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,732nd in 2019) and the 432nd most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gwendoline Christie ranks 3,552 out of 13,578. Before her are Daniel Duval, Thomas Jane, Dorothea Jordan, Tony Amendola, Billy Crudup, and Norio Wakamoto. After her are Valentin Gaft, John Garfield, Javier Cámara, Dominique Blanc, Matt Schulze, and Titus Welliver.

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Among people born in 1978, Gwendoline Christie ranks 83. Before her are Eiður Guðjohnsen, Anthony Mackie, Danai Gurira, Luis Fonsi, Alexandra Maria Lara, and Ayumi Hamasaki. After her are Hiroki Iizuka, Chris Wolstenholme, Nicole Scherzinger, Sandra Hüller, Yi So-yeon, and Naoki Matsushita.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gwendoline Christie ranks 3,149 out of 8,785. Before her are Banastre Tarleton (1754), Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Douglas Bader (1910), Julian Bream (1933), Jonathan Glazer (1965), and Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903). After her are Nick Hornby (1957), Richard Marquand (1937), Jack Cardiff (1914), Dawn Addams (1930), William Burnside (1852), and James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Gwendoline Christie ranks 432. Before her are Sienna Guillory (1975), Chris Vance (1971), Belinda Lee (1935), Graham McTavish (1961), Damian Lewis (1971), and Jason Flemyng (1966). After her are Dawn Addams (1930), Freddie Highmore (1992), Sam Claflin (1986), Ian Richardson (1934), Anthony Andrews (1948), and Gary Lewis (1957).

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