
Gemma Whelan
Department: Acting
Biography
Gemma Elizabeth Whelan (born 23 April 1981) is an English actress and comedian known for portraying Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones. She also plays Kate in all seasons of the comedy Upstart Crow, Detective Eunice Noon on the first season of The End of the F***ing World on Channel 4, and Geraldine on the third season of Killing Eve.
Known For

Game Over
2021

Prevenge
2017

The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde
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Gulliver's Travels
2010

The Wolfman
2010

Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
2018

The Blue Door
2018

Sump
2017

Emma.
2020

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2019

National Theatre Live: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë
2024

Spiked
2025

G.S.W.
2025

Recall Me Maybe
2025

Thanatos
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Inside No. 9
2014

Sweat the Small Stuff
2013

Almost Royal
2014

The Tower
2021

Frayed
2019

Upstart Crow
2016

Game of Thrones
2011

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014

The Moorside
2017

Mapp and Lucia
2014

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Queers.
2017

The Crown
2016

DI Ray
2022

Hetty Feather
2015

Cristóbal Balenciaga
2024

Star vs. the Forces of Evil
2015

Gentleman Jack
2019

Killing Eve
2018

The End of the F***ing World
2017

White House Farm
2020

Horrible Histories
2009

Queers.
2017

The Cleaner
2021

Between the Covers
2020

Comedy Blaps
2011

Comedy Blaps
2011

Comedy Blaps
2011

The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!
2013

The Tower
2021

Dexter Procter
2025

The Famous Five
2023

Decline and Fall
2017

10 Minute Tales
2009

Not Safe for Work
2015