Age: 52
male
Joseph Mawle (born March 21, 1974) is an English actor renowned for his intense character roles, most notably Benjen Stark in Game of Thrones, Odiseo in The Rings of Power, and Jesus in The Passion. Raised on a Warwickshire farm, he overcame severe dyslexia and a 70% hearing loss from labyrinthitis to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His career began in theater before breaking out in the 2006 television film Soundproof, leading to acclaimed performances in Birdsong and Ripper Street.
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
