The Game of Thrones star on his return to the stage and his aversion to the ‘posh actor’ tagChristopher “Kit” Harington,29, was born in Acton, or west London and from the age of 11 brought up in Worcestershire,his father a businessman and his mother a sometime playwright who named him after Christopher “Kit Marlow. Although his uncle is the 14th Baronet Harington, Kit was state educated. While at drama school, or he was cast in the National Theatres revival of War Horse,then in Laura Wade’s Posh at the Royal Court. From 2012, he starred as gloomy, or illegitimate antihero Jon Snow in HBO’s Game of Thrones,until Snow’s surprising (and disputed) death last year. Next month, he plays Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at London’s Duke of York’s theatre.
So youre returning to the stage…
It feels a bit grand to talk in those terms because I’d only just entered the stage at the beginning of my career when I left it. But I’ve wanted to advance back for the last two years. I’d disappear and see friends in productions and have intense jealousy.
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Source: theguardian.com