Joe Dempsie

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 (2011–2019).

Joe Dempsie
Dempsie in August 2018
Born	Joseph Maxwell Dempsie 22 June 1987 (1987-06-22) (age 33) Liverpool, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2000–present
Home town	West Bridgford, England

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).

Early life

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie was born in Liverpool on 22 June 1987. His Scottish father was a social worker.[1] He grew up in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.[2] He received his acting training from the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham, and was also educated at The West Bridgford School.

Career

Dempsie has been the voice of the Clearasil advertisements in the UK.[3][4] 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,[5] a soldier who watches his comrades die.[6] On 18 April 2008, Dempsie appeared on Friday Night Project with Geri Halliwell.[7] 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.[8]

In 2010, he voiced Steven, a gay teenager from Nottinghamshire in the Radio 4 play Once Upon a Time.[9] 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.[10] As of 2019, 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.[11] Recently he has appeared in the BBC Three series The Fades (episodes 3 to 6), as John.[12]

Personal life

Dempsie resides in London.[13] He is a Nottingham Forest FC fan, and once appeared on Soccer AM wearing the team's shirt. Being half Scottish, he is also a fan of the Scotland national football team.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Peak Practice	Leon	Episode: "Playing God"
2001	Doctors	Lee Lindsay	Episode: "Sins of the Brother"
2003	Sweet Medicine	Ben Campbell	Episode 2
2004	Doctors	Danny	Episode: "Rabbit in the Headlights"
2005	Born and Bred	Humphrey 'Bogie' Locke	Episode: "Community Spirits"
2006	To Kill a Burglar: The Tony Martin Story	Fred Barras	Television film
2007–2008	Skins	Chris Miles	19 episodes
2008	Doctor Who	Cline	Episode: "The Doctor's Daughter"
	Merlin	William	Episode: "The Moment of Truth"
2010	This Is England '86	Higgy	2 episodes
2011–2013; 2017–2019	Game of Thrones	Gendry Baratheon	24 episodes
2011	The Fades	John	4 episodes
	Moving On	Kieran Murphy	Episode: "The Poetry of Silence"
2012	Murder	Stefan	Episode: "Joint Enterprise"
	Accused	Martin Cormack	Episode: "Mo's Story"
2013	Southcliffe	Chris Cooper	3 episodes
2014	New Worlds	Ned Hawkins	4 episodes
2015	The Gamechangers	Jamie King	One-off drama
	This Is England '90	Higgy	2 episodes
2016	Retribution / One of Us	Rob Elliot	4 episodes
2016	Ellen	Jason	Television film
2018–2019	Deep State	Harry Clarke	16 episodes
2020	Adult Material	Rich	4 episodes

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	Kestrel

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	Role
2008	Clearasil 'Lipstick' advert
2011	Sky One
2016–2017; 2019–2020	Final Fantasy XIV	Arbert/Ardbert and Arenvald Lentinus

References

1. "Joe Dempsie: 'The Red Wedding Was Harrowing'". GQ UK. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
2. Humphreys, Georgia; Wilson, Simon (1 May 2019). "'It's like leaving school' - Notts actor Joe Dempsie on saying goodbye to Game of Thrones and his new TV role in Deep State". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
3. skinsonline (26 January 2008), Joe Dempsie Clearasil Voice Over 2, retrieved 30 April 2019
4. "5 Cute Facts You Did Not Know About Joe Dempsie | Fan World". FanWorld.co. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
5. "Saturday 10 May". Radio Times. No. 10–16 May 2008. BBC. April 2008. p. 68.
6. "Digital Spy article". Digital Spy article. 1 April 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
7. Friday Night Project on Channel 4
8. The Moment of Truth, retrieved 9 May 2019
9. "5 Cute Facts You Did Not Know About Joe Dempsie | Fan World". FanWorld.co. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
10. 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.
11. Guide, British Comedy. "Harry & Paul Harry & Paul - Series 3, Episode 3". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
12. "BBC iplayer credits". Bbc.co.uk. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
13. "Game of Thrones star Joe Dempsie on his life and career". Archived from the original on 17 July 2015.

External links

• Joe Dempsie on IMDb