Isaac Hempstead Wright

Isaac Hempstead Wright[1] (born Isaac William Hempstead;[2] 9 April 1999) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Bran Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2014, 2016–2019), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Young Supporting Actor in a TV Series. He also voiced Eggs in the 2014 animated film The Boxtrolls (2014).[3]

Isaac Hempstead Wright
Wright at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Issac William Wright

(1999-04-09) 9 April 1999
Surrey, England
OccupationActor
Years active2011–present

Early life

Isaac Hempstead Wright was born 9 April 1999 in Surrey, England.[4] He does not come from a performance background: his mother and father are both teachers, and his step-father runs a printing company.[5] He studied at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Faversham, Kent. He had no interest in acting until he joined a drama club to avoid playing football on Saturday mornings during the cold months of the year; he later studied acting at the Kent Youth Theatre in Canterbury.[6]

Career

Early career and Game of Thrones

Hempstead Wright began his acting career by auditioning and acting in commercials.[6] He has said that he had acted in one commercial prior to being cast in Game of Thrones.

Hempstead Wright's big break was as Bran Stark in the hit television series Game of Thrones, which premiered in April 2011. He was part of the initial starring cast and remained a member of the starring cast for the second, third, and fourth seasons, which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations as Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series at the 18th and 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards.[6] He did not appear in Season 5,[7] but returned as part of the main cast in season 6.[8] The eighth and final season of the show premiered in April 2019 with Hempstead Wright in a starring role, making him one of a handful of Game of Thrones actors who have remained on the show over its nine years of production.

Hempstead Wright's film debut was as Tom Hill in the horror film The Awakening, which premiered in September 2011.[9] Hempstead Wright also had a supporting role in the 2013 crime thriller Closed Circuit.[10] Hempstead Wright also voice acted in the 2014 animated fantasy-comedy film,The Boxtrolls, a 2014 episode of the American show Family Guy, and the 2016 TV special Revolting Rhymes (Part Two).

Post-Game of Thrones work

Hempstead Wright appears in the Foals song "Exits" music video. Directed by Albert Moya, it also features French actress Christa Théret as students at a clandestine fencing academy in a random series of interconnected vignettes of a surrealist nature. The video was filmed in Budapest.[11]

Sometime in 2018, Hempstead Wright was cast in the feature film The Blue Mauritius. The heist movie was expected to begin filming in Cape Town, South Africa in mid-2018 but has remained in pre-production. As of 2019, he is still attached to the project.[12][13]

In April 2019, it was announced that Hempstead Wright was attached to the upcoming sci-fi film Voyagers as part of an ensemble cast which includes Colin Farrell and Tye Sheridan. The film is set to begin production in June 2019.[14]

Personal life

Beginning in 2017, Isaac was a student at the University of Birmingham until dropping out early in order to focus on his acting career.[15] In 2019 he returned to university to study neuroscience at University College London, saying that he hoped to continue to act while doing so.[16][17][18] He plays the guitar, ukelele and piano.

Isaac is a humanist. He became a patron of the humanist charity Humanists UK in 2019.[19]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2011 The Awakening Tom
2013 Closed Circuit Tom Rose
2014 The Boxtrolls Eggs (voice) Also movement
TBA Voyagers Gordon Post-production
TBA The Blue Mauritius Stephen In development

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2011–2014;
2016–2019		 Game of Thrones Bran Stark 40 episodes
2014 Family Guy Aidan
(voice)		 Episode: "Chap Stewie"
2016 Revolting Rhymes Jack
(voice)[20]		 Television film

Awards and nominations
YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2011 Scream Awards Best Ensemble Game of Thrones Nominated [21]
2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated [6]
2013 TiBS Scifi Awards Best Young Actor Game Of Thrones Won [22]
2013 Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a TV Series – Supporting Young Actor Game of Thrones Nominated [3]
2013 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated [6]
2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated [23]
2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series Game of Thrones Pending [23]
gollark: What are you working on, anyway?
gollark: How would you react to [snippet of DC forum conversation]?
gollark: Collect unique rectangles with *patterns*!
gollark: Breed rectangles together; get a slightly different colour!
gollark: Adopt a Coloured Rectangle! That's probably within reach of my art skills.

References
  1. Robin Kawakami (14 February 2015). "WSJ Interview". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. "Isaac Hempstead Wright". BoyActors. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  3. "2013 NOMINATIONS". Young Artist Awards. 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  4. "The voices behind The Boxtrolls". 12 September 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  5. Hempstead-Wright, Isaac (20 May 2019). "'Game of Thrones' Star Isaac Hempstead Wright on His Path to That "Extraordinary" Ending (Guest Column)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  6. "Isaac Hempstead-Wright: Biography". TV Guide. Retrieved 25 April 2014. Archived 16 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "'Game of Thrones' showrunner explains why Bran is not in season 5". Entertainment Weekly. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  8. Hibberd, James (December 28, 2015). "Game of Thrones: First look at Bran Stark in season 6 return". Entertainment Weekly.
  9. The Awakening (2011) - IMDb, retrieved 23 April 2019
  10. "CLOSED CIRCUIT (2013)". BBFC. 15 October 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  11. "Exits - Foals Official Blog". Foals.co.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  12. "D Street Media Group". Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  13. "International heist film to kick off filming in Cape Town next year". Channel. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  14. Wiseman, Andreas (26 April 2019). "'Voyagers': Colin Farrell, Lily-Rose Depp, Tye Sheridan Among Cast For Neil Burger's Sci-Fi-Thriller; Uni Int'l Buys Major Markets From AGC". Deadline. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  15. "This Game of Thrones star is now a Birmingham fresher". 20 September 2017.
  16. Full Episode - Mon. 4/22 - Isaac Hempstead Wright, retrieved 23 April 2019
  17. "Q&A with Isaac Hempstead Wright | Anthem Magazine". anthemmagazine.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  18. "Shelf Life: Isaac Hempstead Wright | Five Books That Shaped Me". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  19. "Humanists UK welcomes new patron, Isaac Hempstead Wright". Humanists UK. 20 December 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  20. "Revolting Rhymes: Two half-hour animated films based on the much-loved rhymes written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake". BBC Media Centre. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  21. "Scream Awards 2011". Spike. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  22. Prentice, Robert (9 February 2013). "TiBS First Annual SciFi Award Winners Announced". Three If By Space. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  23. "Nominations Announced for the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® | SAG-AFTRA". www.sagaftra.org. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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