Joe Dempsie

Joe Dempsie
Joe Dempsie in 2018
Born	Joseph Maxwell Dempsie 22 June 1987 (1987-06-22) (age 31) Liverpool, England
Residence	London, England[1]
Education	West Bridgford Comprehensive School
Alma mater	Central Junior Television Workshop
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present
Home town	West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie (born 22 June 1987) is an English actor, known for the roles of Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and Gendry in Game of Thrones (2011–2013, 2017–present).

Dempsie's earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000), Doctors (2001, 2003), and Sweet Medicine (2003), as well as the films One for the Road and Heartlands (2003). He also appeared in This is England '86 (2010) and This is England '90 (2015), Born and Bred, a BBC documentary-drama about Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, and the villainous John in The Fades (2011).

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  1 Early life and career
  


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  2 Filmography
  
  
  
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    2.1 Television
    
  
  
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    2.2 Film
    
  
  
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  3 References
  


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  4 External links
  

Early life and career

Dempsie was born in Liverpool in 1987, but grew up in West Bridgford in Nottingham.^[2] He received his acting training from the Central Junior Television Workshop, Nottingham. He was also educated at The West Bridgford School.

He has been the voice of the Clearasil advertisements in the UK.^{[citation needed]} Dempsie is a keen Nottingham Forest football fan and attends many home and away matches, he appeared on the UK Saturday morning football show Soccer AM wearing a Nottingham Forest football shirt. He is also a fan of the scotland national football team. He appeared alongside Skins co-star Nicholas Hoult.^{[citation needed]}

In episode 6 of the fourth series of Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Daughter", that aired on 10 May 2008, Dempsie played the character Cline,^[3] a soldier who watches his comrades die.^[4] On 18 April 2008, Dempsie appeared on Friday Night Project with Geri Halliwell.^[5] On 20 July 2008, he appeared at T4 on the Beach in Weston Super Mare alongside fellow Skins cast members. He appeared as Duncan McKenzie in 2009's The Damned United alongside Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham and Timothy Spall. In November 2008, he appeared in The Moment of Truth, episode 10 of the BBC show Merlin. He plays Will, who is an old friend of Merlin's, from the village in which they grew up together.

In 2010, he voiced Steven, a gay teenager from Nottinghamshire in the Radio 4 play Once Upon a Time.^{[citation needed]}
He plays the character of Gendry in HBO's series Game of Thrones based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels.^[6] As of 2017, he has appeared in the first three, seventh and eighth of its eight seasons. He also appeared in the Channel 4 mini-series This Is England '86, as well as the follow-ups This Is England '88 and This Is England '90. He has also appeared in Harry & Paul on BBC Two, appearing as a northerner who was presented as a gift from the character Harry was playing to his daughter.^{[citation needed]} Recently he has appeared in the BBC Three series The Fades (episodes 3 to 6), as John.^[7]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Peak Practice	Leon	Series 10, episode 10, "Playing God"
2001	Doctors	Lee Lindsay	Series 3, episode 1, "Sins of the Brother"
2003	Sweet Medicine	Ben Campbell	Series 1, episode 2
2004	Doctors	Danny	Series 6, episode 132, "Rabbit in the Headlights"
2005	Born and Bred	Humphrey 'Bogie' Locke	Series 4, episode 3, "Community Spirits"
2006	To Kill a Burglar	Fred Barras	TV Movie
2007–2008	Skins	Chris Miles	Series 1, 2
2008	Doctor Who	Cline	Series 4, episode 6, "The Doctor's Daughter"
	Merlin	William	Series 1, episode 10, "The Moment of Truth"
2010	This Is England '86	Higgy	Episodes 1 and 3
2011–2013 2017–present	Game of Thrones	Gendry	Recurring (season 1–2; 9 episodes) Main cast (season 3, 7-8; 11 episodes)
2011	The Fades	John	Episodes 3, 4, 5 and 6
	Moving On	Kieran Murphy	Episode 5
2012	Murder: Joint Enterprise	Stefan	One-off drama
	Accused	Martin Cormack	Episode 2
2013	Southcliffe	Chris Cooper
2014	New Worlds	Ned Hawkins
2015	The Gamechangers	Jamie King	One-off drama
	This Is England '90	Higgy
2016	One of Us	Rob Elliot
2016	Ellen	Jason	One-off drama
2018	Deep State	Harry Clarke

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2002	Heartlands	Craig
2003	One for the Road	Joyrider
2009	The Damned United	Duncan McKenzie
2010	Edge	Philip
2011	Blitz	Theo Nelson
2014	Monsters: Dark Continent	Frankie
2015	Burn Burn Burn	James
2017	Dark River	David
2018	Been So Long	Krestel

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Station
2009	Black Hearts in Battersea	Simon	BBC Radio 4
2010	Once Upon A Time	Steven	BBC Radio 4
2013	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	Arthur Seaton	BBC Radio 4
2016	The Beach (Book at Bedtime)	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2016	Waiting for the Boatman	Cecco	BBC Radio 4

Voiceover work

Year	Title
2008	Clearasil 'Lipstick' advert
2011	Sky One
2017	Final Fantasy XIV 'Warrior of Darkness, Arbert' and Arenvald Lentinus

References

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   ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150717011559/http://www.nottinghampost.com/Games-Thrones-star-Joe-Dempsie-life-career/story-26130405-detail/story.html. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
   


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   ^ "Saturday 10 May". Radio Times. No. 10–16 May 2008. BBC. April 2008. p. 68.
   


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   ^ 1 April 2008, 16:44 BST (1 April 2008). "Digital Spy article". Digital Spy article. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
   


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   ^ Friday Night Project on Channel 4
   


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   ^ Take a Bow 10 August 2010 at 10:12 PM (10 August 2010). "Not A Blog – Take a Bow". Grrm.livejournal.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
   


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   ^ "BBC iplayer credits". Bbc.co.uk. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
   

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