Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christie
Gwendoline Christieis an English actress and model. She is known for portraying the warrior Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones and playing Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth28 October 1978
CitySussex, England
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There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.
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The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.
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If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.
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It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.
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Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms.
The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.
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People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'
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I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth.
I've always been able to look very different very easily.
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I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.
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I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.
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Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
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Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with.
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I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.