Gwendoline Christie is an English actress. She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). For the former, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. Christie has since appeared in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman and Wednesday.
Gwendoline Christie at an event for Game of Thrones in 2019
Gwendoline Christie at the London Palladium (2009)
Gwendoline Christie with her Game of Thrones co-stars Carice van Houten and Liam Cunningham (San Diego Comic Con 2015)
Gwendoline Christie at the Calgary Comic Expo in 2015.
Brienne of Tarth is a fictional character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels and its television adaptation, Game of Thrones. She is a prominent point of view character in the novels.
Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth
Functional weapons and armor, like Brienne of Tarth's (left), were manufactured for the series.