Biography
Date of Birth
9 December 1999, England, UK
Birth Name
Isaac William Hempstead
Height
5' 11" (1.8 m)
Mini Biography
Isaac has been acting since he was age 11. Currently, he is still studying at school and balancing acting jobs.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright is an English actor. Beginning his professional acting career at the age of eleven, Hempstead-Wright is best known for his role as Bran Stark on the HBO series Game of Thrones, which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Young Supporting Actor in a TV Series
He started acting in commercials, and studied acting at the Kent Youth Theatre in Canterbury, England.
He made it his screen debut in the horror film, The Awakening (2011). But, the big break came when he was cast as Bran Stark on Game of Thrones (2011), which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations as Oustanding Performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series at the 18th and 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards
Trivia
Good friends with Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner.
His favorite TV shows are SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and The Simpsons (1989).
Plays the piano.
He has two dogs, Ted & Rosie.
His mother's maiden name is Wright.
His favorite movie is The Illusionist (2010).
While working on Game of Thrones, he also found time to reunite with his Awakening co-star, actress Rebecca Hall, for the British-American crime thriller Closed Circuit (2013).
Hempstead-Wright started acting in commercials, and studied acting at the Kent Youth Theatre in Canterbury, England.
He began his professional acting career at the age of eleven.
In February, 2014 Laika announced that Isaac would provide the voice for the character Eggs in the American 3D stop motion animated fantasy-comedy film _The Boxtrolls (2014)_ qv based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright had no interest in acting until he joined a drama club to get out of playing football on Saturday mornings during the cold months of the year.
It has been reported that Isaac is saving his Game of Thrones salary to pay for University where he hopes to gain a PhD.
Hempstead-Wright resides with his family in Faversham, Kent.
When asked during an interview that if there is another TV show he would like to be on after Game of Thrones is wrapped up, Isaac replied Sherlock.
He made his screen debut in the horror film, The Awakening. But, his big break came when he was cast as Bran Stark on Game of Thrones, 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.
Hempstead-Wright is attending Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, a co-educational state grammar school in Faversham, Kent in South East England. [2014]
Quotes
[on performing in 'Game of Thrones'] I think it's pretty much every teenager's dream to be able to step into a world of swords and beheaded heads and, like, skulls everywhere. I think it's really cool, walking around on set and there's a line of dead bodies beside you, which you can go and take pictures of. I find it great fun.
'Joffrey' is this completely insane young kid who's been given this absolute power over people's lives, and he's been corrupted absolutely. It's a study of the social consequences of war that, sadly, isn't too far from a lot of the actual state of the world.
[on performing in movies] It wasn't like I ever said, 'I want to be an actor'. I was in the right place at the right time. I went to a local drama group because I found football on the weekends too cold - which is highly ironic because I've had some of the coldest experiences of my life filming 'Game of Thrones'. So I went to this group, enjoyed the drama games and the make-belief stuff, but I wasn't really a hard-core thespian. Then there was open casting and it so happened I got the role [Eggs]. It was the coolest: three weeks Northern Ireland, playing on this medieval adventure playground, getting thrown out of windows. Picking up beheaded heads. It was the coolest.
