Emilia Clarke was born in 1987 and is an English actress
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Clarke was born in London, England and grew up in Berkshire
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Clarke's father is a theatre sound engineer, her mother is a business woman, and her brother is studying politics
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Clarke's interest in acting began at the age of three after seeing the musical Show Boat which her father was working on at the time
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She was educated at St Edward's (2000–2005) and Rye St Antony before studying at Drama Centre London where she graduated in 2009
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Clarke's early work includes two plays at St. Edwards, ten plays at Drama Centre London, the 2009 Company of Angels production of Sense., and a 2009 commercial for Samaritans
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Her first television roles were Saskia Mayer in a 2009 episode of Doctors and Savannah in SyFy's 2010 movie Triassic Attack.
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The actress's big break came when she was cast as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones
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Game of Thrones is based on the book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
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She was cast as a replacement to fellow British actress Tamzin Merchant who dropped out of the pilot for undisclosed reasons
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The show debuted in April 2011 to positive reviews and was quickly picked up by the network for a second season
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Clarke won the 2011 EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her role as Daenerys.
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Clarke will appear in the film Overdrive in 2012 and a new documentary feature in 2013 – Spike Island, named after the location of the Stone Roses seminal 1990 gig
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The 25-year-old Londoner ended the first series of Game Of Thrones as a dragon-toting warrior badass, the show's de facto lead
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You could take the fantasy out and it would still stand up as an outstanding piece of drama," she said, while noting that the show can't hope to continue following the increasingly complex source material - George RR Martin's sprawling six-book-and-counting series
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Despite the overnight success, Clarke goes about her life unrecognized. That’s thanks to the long, heavy, semibraided silver wig stylists spend some three hours attaching to her naturally brunette hair
