Joe Dempsie

Born: 1987-06-22, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Biography

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie (born 22 June 1987) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2013; 2017–2019). 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 Tony Martin, and as the villainous John in The Fades (2011).

Filmography

• Game of Thrones (2011)
• Doctor Who (2005)
• The Capture (2019)
• Doctors (2000)
• Skins (2007)
• Merlin (2008)
• Love, Death & Robots (2019)
• Peak Practice (1993)
• The Fades (2011)
• Moving On (2009)
• Accused (2010)
• Born and Bred (2002)
• Adult Material (2020)
• Blitz (2011)
• Merge (2025)
• New Worlds (2014)
• Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
• Soulmate (2025)
• Addition (2026)
• Happy Clapper (2011)
• Truckload (2025)
• Been So Long (2018)
• Heartlands (2003)
• Murder: Joint Enterprise (2012)
• The Love Box in Your Living Room (2022)
• Come Out of the Woods (2017)