Kit Harington
Kit Harington
Christopher Catesby "Kit" Harington is an English actor. He rose to prominence playing the role of Jon Snow in the award-winning HBO television series Game of Thrones, which garnered him a nomination for the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award. Harington also played lead roles in the films Pompeii, Testament of Youth, and Spooks: The Greater Good, as well as supporting roles in the films Silent Hill: Revelation and Seventh Son. In 2014, Harington had a voice role in How to Train...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 December 1986
CityLondon, England
I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
I like a girl who does not take me seriously, you know? It's important to be able to laugh at each other.
Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.
I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.
I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.
I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.
There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.
With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.
When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.